Month: October 2019


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    The 2016 Zambian Elections and the Role of the International Community

    African Studies Reading Group, Thursday 21 November 17:00 Lady Wilson Room, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit THE 2016 ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Zambia had long been hailed as a model in the region so hopes were (naively) high that the 2016 presidential election was going to be undertaken

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    “Now I am Dead”: Anthropological Encounters with the Other

    WEDNESDAY 04 DEC 2019, 5:30pm–7pm, Lady Wilson Room (2.10) Sir Roland Wilson Building (#120), ANU (Note change of date to Wednesday 04 December at 5:30pm) “If anthropology is founded on the violence of speaking for others,” anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker asks in the thought-provoking short film Now I am Dead (2018), “then how can I relate

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    Robyn Alders renews link with ANU

    Robyn Alders renewed her link with the ANU in April, 2019 From https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robyn_Alders ‘Robyn Alders currently works as a Senior Scientific Advisor at the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, is an Honorary Professor with the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University and Chair of the Kyeema Foundation. Her current research

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    2020 Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award

    Applications are invited for the 2020 Royal Commonwealth Society’s Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award. The award, of up to $5000, is intended to help with expenses, including travel, associated with a research or education project to be conducted in a Commonwealth country, including Australia. Criteria There is no restriction on the field of study or endeavour,

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