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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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ANU Demographer wins Gertzel Award
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Extracted from
cherrygertzel.net/postgraduate-scholarship/2021-cherry-gertzel-bursary-award-recipients/
‘2021 Cherry Gertzel Bursary Award recipients
Given we were unable to present the Gertzel award in 2020 due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, we are awarding two bursaries of $10,000 for 2021.
Congratulations to Audrey Kalindi and Stephanie Roland, who are the recipients of the Cherry Gertzel Bursary Award (2021).
‘Audrey Kalindi is a PhD candidate in the School of Demography at the ANU. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Population Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Demography and Economics from the University of Zambia with a Post-graduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is a former University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar (2017). Prior to commencing her PhD, Audrey worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Population studies at the University of Zambia and has done several research and evaluation activities in the areas of education, agriculture, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She has a proven professional and education experience in quantitative and qualitative research, capacity development, and training and monitoring and evaluation of systems development and management, in both the public service and private sector, international development and donor sector. Audrey has worked on projects that are supported by the University of Zambia, UNFPA, CDC, UNICEF, USAID and Lund University among others. Her work has mainly been in Data Management, Field Coordination, Data quality training and mentorship, Community sensitisation and education, Monitoring and evaluation of programmes/ projects, and Evidence Informed Policy advocacy. She has professional membership with the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Australian Evaluation Society, African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific and Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association (ZAMEA). Her current research interests focus on measuring the population-level maternal morbidity and mortality burden and how socioeconomic factors interact to bring about inequities in maternal health care utilisation and child health outcomes.’Audrey is expected to travel to Zambia on or around March 16th, 2022.
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‘WE BLEED THE SAME’ EXHIBITION AND OPENING EVENT
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From the Freilich Project Newsletter:
‘WE BLEED THE SAME EXHIBITION AND OPENING EVENT
We Bleed the Same, by photographer Tim Bauer and journalist and filmmaker Liz Deep-Jones, provides an account of racism in Australia today, as experienced through the eyes of First Nations people, immigrants and refugees. Whether it is overt, covert, or systemic, racism hurts. It’s dangerous and it divides us. We Bleed the Same challenges racist ideas and assumptions by conveying the deeply personal stories of thirty-seven people through stunning portraits and a short documentary. We Bleed the Same will be located in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) building at ANU from late March 2022 to September 2022. It will be accompanied by a program of events on the theme of anti-racism in Australia.
We are very pleased to feature Lovemore N’dou – champion boxer and south Sydney lawyer – at the opening of the We Bleed the Same exhibition at 5pm on Tuesday the 29th of March. This event will be held in conjunction with ANU Alumni Week 2022. Find out more here and register here. Due to pandemic related restrictions on room occupancy, this is a limited and ticketed event. ‘Lovemore Ndou has also published his autobiography Tough Love which includes a description of his childhood growing up in Zimbabwe and apartheid South Africa.
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Africans and Afro-descendants 2022 ANU course
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Africans and Afro-descendants (HIST2315) is an undergraduate course offered by the School of History. starting in July, 2022.
Course convener Dr Karo Moret Miranda
For more details see
https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2022/course/HIST2315