Month: August 2019
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Maxine Beneba Clarke in Conversation with Zoya Patel
Award winning author, Maxine Beneba Clarke (editor of Growing Up African in Australia), will be in conversation with feminist author and editor, Zoya Patel, about her leadership journey as an Australian born black writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, creating space for other African diaspora voices, and empowering those who’ve been historically sidelined in Australian literature to…
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Seminar: “Dual Exposure: Transcendental Harm in the Islamic Ontology of Pollution in Tunisia”
Wed 28 Aug 2019, 9.30–11am Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri/Room 3.03, Building 155 Exposure to harmful substances typically occurs through the entanglements of bodies and materials in late industrialism. How this exposure is measured depends as much on the sensory perception of these materials, as on knowledge and technologies that reveal unperceivable substances, and assess…
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Augustus Panton receives VC’s Award for Excellence in Tutoring
VICE-CHANCELLOR’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (TUTORING/DEMONSTRATING) Mr Augustus Panton, PhD Candidate in Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, and Teaching Assistant, Research School of Economics, ANU College of Business and Economics, has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education (Tutoring/Demonstrating). Before joining the ANU he worked as an Economist at the Central Bank…
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Ibidolapo Adekoya – Three Minute Thesis Final
PhD candidate Ibidolapo Adekoya will be a finalist in ANU’s Three Minute Thesis competition on 4 September, and her research has just been profiled in The Canberra Times: When Ibidolapo Adekoya first got the opportunity to research malaria proteins she “couldn’t say no”. The Australian National University PhD student, who grew up in Nigeria, has…
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Linguistics Seminar – “After Shaka: IsiZulu Language in Ideology and Social History”
Fri 23 Aug 2019, 3.30pm Basham Seminar Room, BPB Level 1, ANU IsiZulu, a major language of South Africa, is not a static monolith, except as some people’s ideologies of language have so imagined it. This presentation traces some major historical events and changes, starting in the early nineteenth century, that have affected Zulu ways…
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Cherry Gertzel Bursary: September deadline for applications
The Cherry Gertzel Bursary Award is an annual award to assist female post-graduate students to complete study or research in African Studies. The information below is selected from the AFSAAP website https://afsaap.org.au/ which should be consulted for more detail. About Professor Cherry Gertzel AM (1928 – 2015) She spent over twenty years researching and teaching…
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August and September Events
August 14: “The Good Migrant: Gender, Race, and Naturalisation in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and Australia,” Rachael Bright (Keele University, UK). https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/events/rachel-bright-keele-good-migrant-gender-race-and-naturalisation-early-twentieth-century August 16: “‘Just Exhaustion!’: Motherhood, Work, and Human Capital Investment in Senegal,” Kathryn E. McHarry (University of Chicago). https://africanetwork.weblogs.anu.edu.au/2019/08/13/just-exhaustion/ 23 August: “Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan.” Paul Hayes (ANU)…
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“Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan”
Date and time: Friday 23 August, 3–5pm Speaker: Paul Hayes (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, ANU) Location: Milgate Room, Level 2, A.D. Hope Building (#14), ANU This post-fieldwork seminar examines the bodily practices and related material culture of young men in Khartoum, Sudan, who practice ‘Nuba wrestling’, a combat sport indigenous to Sudan. Based on 12…
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“Just Exhaustion!”: Motherhood, Work, and Human Capital Investment in Senegal
Date &Time: Friday 16 August, 3pm-5pm Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University Abstract: Over the past two decades, the Senegalese state has reimagined national commitments to care for children and families as a politics of investment. Senegalese families today have unprecedented state support for their children following the creation of Senegal’s national early childhood care…