Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived theconversation.com/ancient-nomads…

Welcome to the April edition of CHL Crosscurrents!

A colourful splash of tradition with Thingyan, or the Myanmar Water Festival; Meet Mayuko Itoh; plus the usual servings of events, news and opportunities!
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Check out this video by our current Semester 58 student 😍😍

”2min snippet of my last two months in Indonesia - so much isn’t pictured: the food, the Gojek chats, mager days. Loving turning ‘belum’ into ‘pernah’…”

#ACICIS #travelindonesia #Intled #newcolomboplan

Join ECDI's Carmel O'Shannessy for our Sept SYNAPSE seminar - register via Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/synapse-semi…
This seminar will also be part of IMMERSIA 2024

Protecting Oceania Jun 10-12 Honolulu - Indigenous Pasifika philosophy + activism during #FestPac
Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice @cpisuh hawaiipeaceandjustice.org/event/protecti…

Join Frédérik Saltré for our Oct SYNAPSE seminar - register via Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/synapse-semi…

Join us on 14 May for the ANU Menzies Library Southeast Asia resource showcase and morning tea 📚☕️ Get insights into how you can better utilise the library resources, its collection and services, Southeast Asia archives, and other fantastic content. events.humanitix.com/southeast-asia…

PhD candidate Huade Huang ANU CHL wants to document an endangered language from Southwest China to give the local village a voice.

Read the full story here 👉 quicklink.anu.edu.au/zsk1

#ouranu #anucap #capcommunity #graduateresearch #China #languages #linguistics #PhD #Asia

A travelling yam daisy #pollen grain and a rare sighting of Pope Kershaw. Key elements of a successful field expedition to southeastern #Australia !

My conversation with Suzanne Hill on ABC News #Nightlife about the #JallianwalaBagh massacre in #Amritsar .
#colonialism #colonialviolence #India #britishempire ANU CHL ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU Media
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I’m speaking to Suzanne Hill ABC News #Nightlife about the horrific #JallianwalaBagh massacre. Tune in and if you miss it you can listen to it here- abc.net.au/listen/program…

#colonialism #colonialviolence #britishempire #india ANU College of Asia and the Pacific ANU CHL ANU Media

What a delightful splash of culture and celebration this afternoon at the CHL-hosted Thingyan, or Myanmar Water Festival! Here’s a glimpse of all the wonderful Friday fun — music, dance and cuisine providing everyone an immersive dive into Burmese tradition!

#Thingyan #culture

We are honoured to be publishing 'Dreaming Ecology', the final book in Deborah Bird Rose's envisaged trilogy.

It explores an understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility.

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The 2024 AAPS Epeli Hau’ofa Annual Memorial Lecture titled “The Ocean Is Us” delivered by Rev. James Shri Bhagwan James Bhagwan is now online via YouTube! Watch the thought-provoking lecture, here: youtu.be/CsJu3FWHmSo?fe…

Dancing, karaoke, a taste of Myanmar cuisine, and water play…Like so many vivid cultural experiences, the Myanmar Water Festival is certainly worth diving into.

Read about it here and prepare for a splash of a lifetime!

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#WaterFestival2024

Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Results demonstrate that Australia was intimately engaged in ancient maritime networks

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If you have an interest in #Japanese #history , be sure to attend this seminar.

The seminar will be presented by Japan historian and author, Professor Sandra Wilson, and will discuss the history of Japanese #warcrimes .

Register here 👇
quicklink.anu.edu.au/ozn9

Congratulations to the 2024 Summer cohort of SEAREG Fellows!

Soksamphoas Im, Asian Studies Center
Hipolitus Wangge, ANU CHL
Tiên Dung Hà, Stanford University Anthropology
Colum Graham, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Tommy Chai, ANUBellSchool
Lili Chen, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e

CANBERRA: A diverse mini festival of hot-off-the-press short documentaries from inside West Papua and Indonesia screens in Canberra at the National Film and Sound Archives on 11 April 2024 at 4:20pm.

- Ticketing for the Canberra screening via:
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Happy Friday from Canberra, Australia, a rainy start to the weekend... at CHL, there's a very novel forecast, because it's raining something special -- books!

#books #research #authorscommunity

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