Tag Archives: SYNAPSE

This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series Seminar: “The disease spread like fire among flax” (Thomson 1859). Questioning in the 21st Century the timing, magnitude and consequences of Pacific depopulation following European contacts Speaker: Christophe Sand When: 2 May 2022, 2pm-3.30pm AEST Registration via Eventbrite This is an online event and will be hostedContinue reading “SYNAPSE Seminar 2 May”

Image: Women and Children of Roas Bay in Malaita, Beattie, 1906 Seminar: History, Culture and Contemporary Gender Discourse: Tracing the Historical Progression of Gender Roles in Solomon Islands Speaker: Anna Kwai, ECDI PhD When: 9 May 2022, 10am-11.30am AEST This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom. (Meeting ID: 891 8773 2737; Password: 535821) AbstractContinue reading “Zoom Seminar 9 May”

This seminar is part of RSB Directors Seminar Series Seminar: Interdisciplinary adventures in language evolution: exploring the past, present and future of language diversity Speaker: Lindell Bromham When: 8 Nov 2021, 12.30pm-1.30pm AEDT More details here This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom. Abstract: The past decade has seen a flowering of collaboration between evolutionary biologists and linguists. UsefulContinue reading “RSB Directors Seminar 8 Nov”

This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series Seminar: How useful is the ‘hunter-gatherer’ label in explaining the diversification of Indigenous Australian societies? Speaker: Laurent Dousset When: 6 Sept 2021, 4pm-5.30pm AEST Registration via Eventbrite This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom; Login details for the Zoom event will be includedContinue reading “SYNAPSE Seminar 6 Sept”

This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series Seminar: Lapita-Papuan interaction in New Guinea: Implications for Pacific colonisation and regional social histories Speaker: Ben Shaw When: 5 July 2021, 2pm-3.30pm Registration via Eventbrite This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom; Login details for the Zoom event will be included in yourContinue reading “SYNAPSE Seminar 5 July”

Image courtesy: Ada Jusic (Twitter/Instagram @AdaJusic) This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series and will be co-hosted with Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies Seminar: The Body as archive: Debates around the genetic reconstruction of African ancestries in post-slavery American societies Speaker: Sarah Abel (University of Cambridge) When: 2 August 2021, 6pm-7.30pm RegistrationContinue reading “SYNAPSE Seminar 2 August”

This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series Seminar: Searching for a sixth sense with Gurindji people Speaker: Felicity Meakins When: 7 June 2021, 2pm-3.30pm Registration via Eventbrite This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom; Login details for the Zoom event will be included in your Eventbrite registration email.

This seminar is part of SYNAPSE: The CHL trans-disciplinary seminar series Seminar: Reading landscapes: Tracing the nature of being human through the palaeoecology of extinction, domesticaton, translocation and invasion Speaker: Simon Haberle When: 3 May 2021, 2pm-3:30pm Registration via Eventbrite This is an online event and will be hosted via Zoom; Login details for the Zoom event willContinue reading “SYNAPSE Seminar 3 May”