ANU alumnus Dr Liang Chen has returned to the University of Botswana in mid-July. He spent the first semester in Gaberone teaching four courses in the Chinese Studies program there. In the second semester he plans to undertake anthropological research on in-migrants and immigrants in the Gaberone District. 

Details of Dr Liang’s ANU seminar on ‘God, Development, and Technology Transfer: Medicated Ethics between Chinese and Ethiopians’ were posted on this blog in 13/4/2021. 

His spouse Naijing Liu is completing her doctorate in linguistics at the ANU, Her research interests, which she hopes to continue in Botswana, include the documentation of endangered languages.