This is a monthly update about the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (ECDI) activities and upcoming events.
News
Find out more about ECDI Catherine Friedman by watching the recent vimeo interview talking about her new publication, Archaeology as History, coming out this week – https://vimeo.com/843094240
Catherine Friedman’s Future Fellowship project – Kin and Connection: aDNA between the science and the social – aka KINnect – has started and Catherine will be sending out a weekly or fortnightly newsletter throughout the project. Follow the KINnect project newsletter for updates and progress reports: https://buttondown.email/CJFrieman It’s going to be breezy, somewhat variable in tone, and hopefully it will have some guest posts over the 4 years (including perhaps from ECDI colleagues).
Welcome to our newest affiliate member Anna Florin!
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Outreach
SYNAPASE
Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:
- When ordinary processes lead to extraordinary outomes – Carmel O’Shannessy – Monday 31 July – register via Eventbrite
- Tracking the Tombuk Eruption of Kuwae Vanuatu – Chris Ballard, Stuart Bedford, Sonke Stern, Shane Cronin, Sandrine Bessis and Alice Kaloran – Monday 28 August – register via Eventbrite
The seminar series will be held monthly in-person and via zoom. All available seminars for registration can be found on our Eventbrite collection.
Previously recorded seminars are available on our YouTube channel.
Please also share our upcoming seminars with your networks.
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Tok Pisin Lunches
Our informal Tok Pisin lunch gatherings bring together anyone interested in the language or in Papua New Guinea. If you’re happy to forget about English for an hour and chat in Tok Pisin instead, just come along. Your proficiency level doesn’t matter. Just bring your coffee, or lunch, or just yourself! We catch up every Thursday at 12:30pm in the barbecue area to the left of Menzies Library.
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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences
2023 Vocabulary Symposium – FAIR Vocabularies for All
14-15 Nov 2023
A two day hybrid event bringing together people from domains across multiple disciplines spanning research, government and industry, including those from the ARDC Thematic Research Data Commons. The aim is to communicate and promote approaches to using, developing, publishing, and maintaining vocabularies. The Symposium will cover Australian and international initiatives that demonstrate the impact and value of FAIR vocabularies for maximising the re-use value of data within and across domains.
The Symposium is led by the ARDC, in partnership with ADA, AHRA, APPF, AURIN, AuScope, AusTraits, CODATA, IMOS, LDaCA, and TERN.
Registration and more information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2023-vocabulary-symposium-fair-vocabularies-for-all-tickets-641760903137
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ANU Anthropology Seminar Series
Program for 2023 is now available. Seminars will be in person and via zoom unless stated otherwise.
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Linguistic Futures reading group
Once a month the linguistic futures reading group we will be reading papers which have an eye on the future of the language sciences with a special focus on comparative approaches to language. The group will be held on the first Wednesday of every month in the Engma room (3.165) in the Coombs Building from 11am to 12noon. All are invited to attend, research students are especially encouraged to come along. Any questions contact mae.carroll@anu.edu.au
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Publications
Friedman, C. 2023. Archaeology as history: Telling stories from a fragmented past. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009052412
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