ECDI Update: January 2024 activities

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

News

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Outreach

SYNAPSE

Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:

  • 1 Feb – Can birds have culture, and why does it matter? – Lucy Aplin (ANU) – register via Eventbrite
  • 1 Mar – Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System – Lars Eckstein (University of Potsdam) – 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.

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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

Global Pasts Lectures
Tuesday 30th January, 12pm (GMT)
‘Tracing culinary traditions in prehistoric East and Central Asia’ 
Dr Shinya Shoda (Head of international cooperation section in Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties & Honorary Visiting Fellow in BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York)

Tuesday 6th February, 19.00pm (GMT)
‘Vietnam’s Role in Understanding Social and Economic Change in Mainland Southeast Asia 5000 – 3500 cal. BP’
Prof Philip Piper (Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University)

Please email admin@prehistoricsociety.org to book. Online attendance is free. The Zoom link will be sent to attendees 3 days before the event.

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Computational Skills Summer School
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia’s national research data infrastructure facility, are running the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Skills Summer School,to be held in-person at Monash University’s Caulfield campus in Melbourne/Naarm on 7 to 9 Feb 2024. The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills, and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences, and Indigenous fields of study. 

The Summer School is free to attend and travel bursaries are available.
Session highlights include:

  • data governance and management, with a focus on Indigenous data
  • integrating social and geospatial data
  • finding and analysing GLAM data.

The Summer School is run by the ARDC in partnership with the Indigenous Data Network at the University of Melbourne, School of Languages at the University of Queensland, AURIN, and others.

Please find the event information and program here: https://bit.ly/ardc-hass-skills-24 

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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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Publications

Ballard, C. 2023. The meaning of ditches: An ethnography of field systems and other networks in a New Guinea landscape. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.449-472. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-archaeology-of-indigenous-australia-and-new-guinea-9780190095611

Bergelson, E., et al. 2023. Everyday language input and production in 1,001 children from six continents. PNAS. 120 (52) e2300671120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300671120

Gillespie, J., Hamilton, R. and Penny, D. 2023. Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation. Ambio. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01957-7

Hawkins, S. et al. 2024. Earliest known funerary rites in Wallacea after the last glacial maximum. Scientific Reports. 14:282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50294-y

Langley, M., Kealy, S. and O’Connor, S. 2023. Shell-beading traditions at Asitau Kuru (Timor-Leste). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15: 192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01896-0 

Rowland, M., Shaw, B., and Ulm S. 2023. Maritime coastal and island societies of Australia and New Guinea. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.773-802. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-archaeology-of-indigenous-australia-and-new-guinea-9780190095611

Woodbury, A. (2023). Interview with Nicholas Evans. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 20(3): 109–142. http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL54/07.pdf

Zhang, Y., Westaway, K.E., Haberle, S. et al. 2024. The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06900-0

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