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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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Exhibiting Biskra: Art, Photography and Tourism in an Algerian Oasis
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The exhibition Biskra: sortilèges d’un oasis has been sparked by responses of
cosmopolitan avant-gardists who visited around 1900, including the André Gide, Henri Matisse and Béla BartókWednesday 20 September 2017, 4.30 – 6pm
This public lecture is co-presented by the ANU Centre for European Studies and the Humanities Research Centre, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.
Enquiries: T 02 6125 9896 E europe@anu.edu.au
Speaker
Professor Roger Benjamin
Professor of Art History
University of SydneyProfessor Benjamin is a Canberra-born art historian and curator who trained in Melbourne, Bryn Mawr and Paris. His work has focused on Matisse studies,contemporary Aboriginal art, and the social history of European Orientalist painting.
Location
The Nye Hughes Room
ANU Centre for European Studies
The Australian National University
Building #67C, 1 Liversidge StreetMap reference
https://www.anu.edu.au/
maps#show=29321Registration required on Eventbrite
https://rbenjamin.eventbrite.com.auDownload the event flyer (PDF 580.78KB)
https://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/politicsir.anu.edu.au/files/09_20_Flyer_RogerBenjamin.pdfEnquiries: T 02 6125 9896 E europe@anu.edu.au
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Shared Experience and Learning from African Communities in Australia.
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The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia Winter (FECCA) publishes its national magazine, Australian Mosaic, three times a year.
Australian Mosaic is a plain English magazine, which discusses a wide range of contemporary issues associated with multiculturalism, social justice, community harmony, and cultural and faith pluralism in Australia.
Issue 46 (Winter 2017) is about Shared Experience and
Learning from African Communities in Australia.
The varied contents, which include articles on education, citizenship, sport, communication, and much more, can be found at
https://fecca.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Issue-46.pdf
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Tracking population, health and social transitions in Agincourt, rural South Africa
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Tracking population, health and social transitions in Agincourt, rural
South Africa:
Overview of the Agincourt Health and Demographic
Surveillance SystemSPEAKER: Chodziwadziwa (Cho) Whiteson Kabudula –
2017 John C Caldwell Visiting Scholar,
MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Unit) at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDATE: Wednesday 13 September 2017, 12.30-1.30pm
VENUE: Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre, Building 62 NCEPH (entrance on Eggleston Road)
ENQUIRIES
rachael.rodney@anu.edu.au; Chatu.Yapa@anu.edu.au