Month: August 2015


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    Africanists Return

    Jo Ford returned to the ANU in July as an Associate Professor in the Law Department. His research interests include law, governance and development, especially  in Sub-Saharan Africa and his forthcoming book is on ‘Regulating Business for Peace’. See https://law.anu.edu.au/staff/jolyon-ford Jo will teach an LLM course ‘Law and Governance in sub-Saharan Africa’ in 2016. Welcome back…

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    Australia Africa Conference at ANU

    The above conference, hosted by the the AAUN, the Australia Africa Business Council, the ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy, and the Heads of African Missions, is on again this year at ANU, from Wednesday, August to Friday, August, 28th. The the panels at the Crawford School on the Thursday will cover: * Investment and…

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    ANU African language lecture

    “Development means eye-red”: Communicating feelings in Glocalised Ghanaian English Humanities Research Centre Seminar Tuesday 18 August 2015, 4.00 – 5.30pm Speaker Dr Felix Ameka, Leiden University, The Netherlands HRC Conference Rm 128, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University

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    Sister Angelique Namaika at ANU

    Sister Angélique Namaika who is visiting Australia as the guest of Australia for UNHCR. is the recipient of the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award – UNHCR’s highest human rights prize – for her ground-breaking work with women and girls, in a conflict area labelled the most dangerous place to be a woman than a soldier in the…

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