ECDI Update: April 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

SYNAPASE

Upcoming SYNAPSE Seminars:

  • 9 May – Trying to model the history of Mian speakers – register via Eventbrite
  • 19 Sep – Adults, children and how languages diversify – register via Eventbrite
  • 3 Oct – Pathways (in)to Australia – 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. Recent additions:

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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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Statistics Boot Camp

Expression of Interest for the Statistics Boot Camp – 8,9 and 10 May 2024

Go on a three-day ‘deep dive’ boot camp designed to help you write a Data Analysis Plan and identify the statistics you need to conduct your research. This boot camp is for people just beginning their research and using quantitative data analysis to answer their research questions.
 
A Data Analysis Plan (DAP) is a widely used and important way to structure the quantitative part of a research project. The DAP should set out a clear research problem, identify the data that is available or will be available to answer the problem, and set out how you are going to analyse the data right down to skeleton tables of results.
 
This boot camp will give you time and structured support to complete this document to a high standard. This opportunity is designed for people early in the their research degree and we will preference people who are closest to their TPR deadline
 
Statistics Boot camp will be a three-day Zoom workshop, on the 8,9 and 10 May 2024
Time : 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Expression of Interest closes on Thursday 25 April 2024
 
This opportunity is only available to PhD and MPhil candidates at ANU. There will be short ‘tips and tricks’ sessions where Alice will show you how to populate a DAP template, and ‘shut up and write’ style sessions where you have a chance to work on your document in harmonious, online company of others.

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Seminars, Workshops, Conferences

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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IMERRSIA, CHL ANU
9-20 Sept 2024
ECDI’s September SYNAPSE seminar will be part of the CHL IMMERSIA event in September. For more information about the event, see here: https://immersia.anu.edu.au/

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Publications

Louys, J. & Kealy, S. (2024). How did Homo erectus reach Java? Least-cost pathway models and a consideration of possible Sumatran routes. In: Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra. Canberra: ANU Press. pp. 199-217. https://doi.org/10.22459/TA56.2024.09   

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