ECDI Update: November 2023 activities

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This is a monthly update about the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (ECDI) activities and upcoming events.

News

  • Welcome to our newest affiliate Mae Carroll!
  • Nick Evans (keynote) and Joao Teixeira (plenary) will be presenting at the Coimbra International Symposium – Interdisciplining Knowledge: Humanities, Sciences and Culture, 6-7 Dec
  • Congratulations to Ray Tobler on his recent promotion
  • Read recent article by Bethwyn Evans on the launch on the last volume for the Oceanic Lexicon Project – Words as a window on the Pacific past

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Outreach

Mornington Peninsula Field school 2024
Applications are open 
Ben Shaw will be leading the next Mornington Peninsula field school and will run from Sunday 4 Feb to Sunday 18 Feb 2024. The course is open to all ANU students and is included in the Master of Archaeological and Evolutionary Science program. Limited cross-institutional enrolments are available pending placement availability. No background in Archaeology or previous field experience necessary to apply. The field school is being run in partnership with leading Melbourne-based heritage consultancy Heritage Insight, the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, and Parks Victoria, and in collaboration with Heritage Victoria, First Peoples State Relations, and the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council. More information and apply here

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SYNAPASE

Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:

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. Recent additions:

Please also share our upcoming seminars with your networks.

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Weekly Walk-in Coding and Statistics Clinic

Are you stuck with a coding problem, confused about a statistical procedure, or just want to talk through some technical aspects of your research? The Model Behaviour quantitative working group is opening a dedicated space where you can get one-on-one support for coding and statistical problems and help you through the technical aspects of your research, with a focus on research in CHL and CASS. 

We are here to help with:

  • Coding problems, with a particular focus on R & Python, such as:
  • How to organise and structure your scripts
  • How to wrangle data into a required format
  • Statistical design, analysis, and interpretation. 
  • How to plan your statistical analysis
  • How to interpret the summary of a multi-level or linear regression model
  • Visualisation of data and results 
  • Other common coding-related tools like Git and Github, LaTeX, bash 

Sessions are held in the Engma Room 3.165, H C Coombs Building, on Thursdays between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. 

Help is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

No formal registration is required, but we encourage you to send us a note in advance if you are planning to come to ensure we have enough time to see everyone. 

For more details contact samuel.passmore@anu.edu.au (CHL), anton.malko@anu.edu.au(CASS), or wolfgang.barth@anu.edu.au (CASS)   

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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences

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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Language Documentation and Archiving 2024 (LD&A 2024)

4-6 Sept 2024, Berlin and Online
ELAR (the Endangered Languages Archive) and PARADISEC (the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) are excited to announce the second Language Documentation and Archiving conference with the theme “Recent Advances in Language Documentation and Archiving”, which will take place in Berlin and online from 4-6 September 2024. The deadline to submit abstracts is 1 April, 2024. More information here

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Opportunities

PhD in Psychology, University of Canterbury
Applications close: 30 Nov 2023
Opportunity for a three year PhD with Joseph Watts at the University of Canterbury. The PhD thesis will focus on the topic of mentalising or religion, and incorporate novel quantitative research methods and cultural evolutionary perspectives. More information here

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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation
Applications close: 2 Dec 2023
The SNSF is launching a new call under the transitional measure SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowships for people of all nationalities who were aiming to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA PF). The scheme is open to all research disciplines and topics. This funding scheme will offer applicants with a PhD and no more than eight years of postdoctoral experience a position at a non-commercial research institution in Switzerland for 12-24 months. More information here

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IMPRS PhD Fellowship, Max Planck Institute in Psycholinguistics
Applications close: 8 Jan 2024
The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering two fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four years (2024-2028) with a preferred start-date in September or October, 2024. More information here

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Publications

Black Trowel Collective, Marian Berihuete-Azorín, Chelsea Blackmore, Lewis Borck, James L. Flexner, Catherine J. Frieman, Corey A. Herrmann, Rachael Kiddey. 2023. Archaeology in 2022: Counter-myths for hopeful futures. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13940

Creaghe, N. & Kidd, E. 2023. Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange. Social Development. 10.1111/sode.12592

Rebecca Hamilton, Josephine Gillespie, Dan Penny, Shane Ingrey & Scott Mooney. 2023. Re-imaging Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology. Landscape Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2023.2271421

Stark, K., Kidd, E. & Frost, R. 2023. Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12523

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