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Tracking the Tombuk Eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu - Chris Ballard, et al

SYNAPSE Seminar: Tracking the Tombuk Eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu: Transdisciplinary approaches and results Speakers: Chris Ballard, Stuart Bedford, Sönke Stern, Shane Cronin, and Alice Kaloran Date: 28 Aug 2023 Abstract: One of the hallmarks of genuinely transdisciplinary research is the requirement that projects be conceived from the outset through a collaborative process. The Kuwae Project brings together researchers in geology, archaeology, linguistics and history, working closely with communities and their leaders in the Shepherd Islands of central Vanuatu. The project addresses a key problem in global volcanology, which is the source of a major eruption during the 1450s CE, one of only three eruptions of comparable scale during the past millennium. Although this missing eruption has been associated since the 1990s with an eruption of the Kuwae volcano, in the Shepherd Islands, this link has been widely challenged more recently. Kuwae has also been approached through its signatures in the archaeological record, its imprint on the modern distribution of languages, and its central importance in local oral traditions. In this seminar we report on our experience of the first two years of this experiment in transdisciplinary collaboration, and on some preliminary results that demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. This seminar is part of the ANU School of Culture, History & Language SYNAPSE Trans-Disciplinary Seminar Series.