ECDI Update: May 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:

  • 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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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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IMMERSIA, 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

André, M., Brucato, N., Hudjasov, G. et al. Positive selection in the genomes of two Papua New Guinean populations at distinct altitude levels. Nature Communications. 15, 3352 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47735-1

Bedford, S. (2024). An update on Late Lapita: Its manifestations and associated implications, pp. 127-149. In Anne Ford, Ben Shaw and Dylan Gaffney (eds), Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region. Canberra: ANU Press. 

Bedford, S., Spriggs, M., & Clark, G. (2024). Lapita in the Southwest Pacific: Origins, Distribution, Chronology, Economy, and Transformation. In S.M. Fitzpatrick & J. Erlandson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology. Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607770.013.

Connor, S., Lewis, T., van Leeuwen, J., van der Knaap, W., Schaefer, H., Porch, N., Gomes, A., Piva, S., Gadd, P., Kunes, P., Haberle, S., Adeleye, M., Mariani, M., & Elias, R. 2024. Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conversation. Biological Conversation. 291: 110512.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110512

Flexner, J., Bedford, S., Valentin, F., Williams, R., Horrocks, M., Philip, I., Elena, D., & Kuautonga, T. (2024). Archaeology and the Emergence of Customary Resource Management in Southern Vanuatu, pp. 120-141. In S.M. Fitzpatrick, J. M. Erlandson and K. M. Gill (eds), Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies: An Archaeology of Human Resilience. University Press of Florida.

Hayes, S., Buckley, H., Valentin, F., Bedford, S., & Spriggs, M. (2023). aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP). Journal of Archaeological Science, 162:105916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105916.

Jakamarra Cooke Anderson, H., Jangala, J. P., Dixon Japanangka, S., Paw-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa, W. S. P., O’Shannessy, C., & Turpin, M. (2024). Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle. Sydney University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743329481

Kaharudin, H. A. F., O’Connor, S., Kroh, A., & Kealy, S. (2024). Staple or delicacy: Sea urchin exploitation over the last 40,000 years at Makpan Cave, Alor Island. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2024.2324308

O’Shannessy, C., Angelo, D., & Simpson, J. (2024). Australian Contact Languages. Special Issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1). John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/jpcl.39.1

O’Shannessy, C., Angelo, D., & Simpson, J. (2024). Toward a typology of Australian contact languages. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1), 1–33.https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00137.osh

O’Shannessy, C. (2024). Source language influences in the Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(1), 125–148.https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00131.osh

Passmore, S., Wood, A.L.C., Barbieri, C. et al. Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories. Nature Communications 15, 3964 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48113-7

Shipton, C., Morley, M., Kealy, S., Norman, K., Boulanger, C., Hawkins, S., Litster, M., Withnell, C. , & O’Connor, S. (2024). Abrupt onset of intensive human occupation 44,000 years agoon the threshold of Sahul. Nature Communications. 15, 4193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48395-x

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