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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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The Faithful Servant premiere
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The Faithful Servant, a play by Tom Davis, is set in Australia and Mozambique.
It looks at the what it means to be good, as perceived by the three main characters:
Raymond, an Australian doctor, played by P.J. Williams;
His adopted daughter, Caroline, played by Tariro Mavondo;
Coetano, a patriotic Mozambican, played by Dorian Nkono.It will premiere at the Street Theatre in Canberra on September 6th and run until the 18th:
https://au.patronbase.com/_StreetTheatre/Productions/FSER/PerformancesAuthor Tom Davis has a PhD in political science and has worked in the foreign aid sector for twenty years and as a lecturer, researcher and consultant in international development and public policy.
For more see:
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/tom-daviss-play-the-faithful-servant-to-premiere-at-the-street-theatre-20160824-gqzu5z.html
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J C Caldwell African Research Fellowship
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The 2017 round of applications for the John C Caldwell African Research Fellowship in Population, Health and Development has opened.
The fellowship will support an early career researcher, including people in the final stage of a PhD, for up to three months at the Australian National University. The aim is to foster academic links between population, health and development researchers at the Australian National University and African universities and institutions.
More information can be found at https://nceph.anu.edu.au/research/highlight-stories/caldwell-fellowship-2017-call-applications
The closing date is 17 September 2016.
Please let people in your networks know about this opportunity. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at ann.larson@anu.edu.au.Ann Larson
Convenor
JC Caldwell Chair Endowment Fund
Australian National University
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Ebola West Africa: Through the security looking-glass
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The seminar will run from 3:00-4:15pm on Thursday (18 Aug) in the APCD boardroom (room 2.54 in the Hedley Bull building).
Christian Enemark will take up the post of Professor of International Relations at the University of Southampton in September His latest book is Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations (Georgetown University Press
“In 2014 the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) described the Ebola outbreak then ongoing in West Africa as ‘a threat to international peace and security’ (Resolution 2177). It was the first time a disease outbreak of natural origin had attracted language ordinarily applied to political violence. This presentation assesses the significance of Resolution 2177 as an instrument of health governance, with particular regard to the Council’s primary aim in the resolution: to effect the lifting of state-imposed bans on travel to and from West Africa. As travel bans were arguably a harmful move to securitize a disease at the national level, the UNSC’s response might at first appear to have been an international-level attempt to remove Ebola from the realm of security policy for the sake of public health. However, the use of threat language in Resolution 2177, and the rapid mobilization of disease-control resources by some governments represented on the Council, suggests that some kind of security logic was indeed driving the international response to Ebola. It was not the logic of securitization which some other governments, intent upon using borders as barriers to contagion, were apparently applying. Rather, to counteract this, the UNSC appears to have acted according to the security logic of governmentality whereby the health of populations (in and beyond West Africa) would be secured by facilitating cross-border circulation of people with medical expertise. The Council’s contribution to health governance on this occasion was to support a shift in security logic: from securitization to securing circulation.”
From Dr. Benjamin Zala
Department of International Relations, ANU