Monthly Archives: June 2021

The long-term effects of water pollution on human capital in Africa and Asia

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Title: The nitrogen legacy: the long-term effects of water pollution on human capital

‘The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air, water, soil, and human health. This paper combines data from the Demographic and Health Survey data set across India, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyse the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest stages of life and later-life health.’

Date & time
Tuesday 29 June 2021
10.00am–11.30am

Online via Zoom

Speaker: Esha Zaveri, World Bank
 
For more details and to register see:
https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/18944/nitrogen-legacy-long-term-effects-water-pollution-human-capital
 
Contact: Ryan Edwards

ASPI Africa Day podcast

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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a Canberra-based think tank, produced a special Africa Day edition of their podcast last month, including interviews with Australia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Gita Kamath, Kenya’s permanent representative of Kenya to the United Nations Martin Kimani, and HRW’s Laetitia Bader.

Tigrayan Hidden Genocide exhibition 21/6/21

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The Tigrayan-Canberra Community have advised Emerita Professor Robyn Alders of the Hidden Genocide exhibition at Parliament House. ‘The exhibition about the war in Tigray will run on 21st June 2021 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Dame Enid Lyons Alcove.
This showcase will be based on current news, documentary film, and photographs taken in Tigray. There will also be a display on Tigray’s history and culture. Visitors will gain a greater grasp of the war’s complexities and the ability to take action to help put an end to the conflict.’

This is a pre-registered event; please use the link below link  confirm your attendance. 
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hidden-genocide-an-exhibition-tickets-158353821543?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

 

Virtual Book Launch – Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities

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Monday, 30 August 2021, 5pm-6pm AEST

Free and online: register here via Eventbrite

This zoom webinar will launch the new book Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities by Ibrahim Abraham. Exploring the relationship between race and class among middle-class Christians in South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of South African culture and society, as well as religion, anthropology, and sociology. The presentation will draw from the book’s concluding chapter “Covid-19 in Cape Town” reflecting on the ongoing crisis in South Africa in light of the book’s focus on the spiritual and material insecurities of the South African middle class, and the diversity of theological and political approaches among multiracial middle-class churches.

About the author: Ibrahim Abraham is the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences in the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. A graduate of Monash University and the University of Bristol, he was previously a research fellow at the University of Helsinki. Ibrahim is the author of Evangelical Youth Culture: Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures (Bloomsbury, 2017), editor of Christian Punk: Identity and Performance (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor of the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, the publication of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion.