2023 SYNAPSE Seminars

Trans-Disciplinary Seminar Series


Past 2023 seminars

Monday 27 Feb: Understanding human history from ancient & modern genomes – Joao Teixiera (ANU)recording available

Monday 27 Mar: The global variability and recurrence of kinship terminology – Sam Passmore (ANU) recording available

Monday 17 April: Flow piracy and percolation in a hydropower watershed: interceptions of Indigenous languages in upland LaosNick Enfield (University of Sydney) recording available

Monday 10 July: Ancestral Remains and Personhood in the Southern Massim: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Interpreting Secondary Burials – Simon Coxe – recording available

Monday 14 August: Variation in Australian siblings terminologiesIan Keen (ANU)recording available

Monday 28 August: Tracking the Tombuk Eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu: transdisciplinary approaches and resultsChris Ballard, Stuart Bedford, Sönke Stern, Shane Cronin, Sandrine Bessis and Alice Kaloran recording available

Monday 30 October: The commensal wilderness within Peter Matthews (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)recording available

Monday 27 November: Early plant food use and processing: Insights from Madjedbebe rockshelter, northern Australia – Anna Florin (Australian National University) – recording available