Month: March 2021


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    GOVERNOR-GENERAL HOSTS DEMOCRACY WORKSHOP

    This text was kindly provided by Maureen Hickman, Editor of the Royal Commonwealth Society ACT Branch’s Newsletter.  A fuller report will be available in the next issue: see  https://www.rcsact.org ‘WORKSHOP AGREES DEMOCRACY NEEDS REPAIR IN KEY AREAS OF TRUST AND PARTICIPATION The challenges facing democratic systems in the Commonwealth was the subject of a Workshop…

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    Helen Suich Seminar on The Individual Deprivation Measure – South Africa Country Study Results

    The Demography Seminar by Helen Suich will be on Tuesday April 20th. These seminars normally run from 1.30 to 2.30 pm although sometimes those via Zoom are held at different times. Please see the  post on this weblog dated 22/09/2020 on Helen’s research on The Individual Deprivation Measure: South Africa Country Study Results. See: https://africanetwork.weblogs.anu.edu.au/2020/09/22/the-individual-deprivation-measure-south-africa-country-study-results/…

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    ANU 2025 Survey

    On March 23rd the Chancellor messaged all staff  about the consultations for the ANU 2025 Strategic Plan which had begun in February. “The Vice-Chancellor and the senior staff leading development of the four ‘strategic pillars’ have already held six town-hall forums, with more than 500 staff and students in attendance; and the ANU 2025 team…

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    Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa and Victoria

    Date and time: Thursday 08 Apr 2021, 1–2pm Speaker: Ibrahim Abraham  Event series:  Freilich Research Network Event Location: online zoom webinar, register here Victoria’s recently announced Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draws inspiration from the famous TRC initiated in South Africa in 1995. Both initiatives endeavour to reveal historical truths and heal broken and unjust…

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    Books that Changed Humanity: J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

    Date and time:  Friday 19 Mar 2021, 5.30–6.45pm Speakers:  Dr Ibrahim Abraham (Humanities Research Centre, ANU) Location:  Zoom (registration required) Series:  Books that Changed Humanity Dr Ibrahim Abraham explores this controversial masterpiece of post-apartheid South Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. Disgrace is the novel that not only earned Coetzee (another) Booker Prize but…

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    Solidarity in Diversity Conference

    The African Studies Group (ASG) in partnership with the Melbourne Social Equity Institute (MSEI) is hosting the ‘Solidarity in Diversity’ International Conference in July 2021. The call for papers is now open. “The conference seeks to highlight the voices of, knowledge and experiences of people of African descent, and from other marginalised groups and communities.…

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