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Of Non-native Cultivation: The Indigenization of the Arabic language in Nigerian Arabic Novels
The Majlis at the ANU: A cross-disciplinary roundtable on historical and contemporary issues across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia Fri 21 Oct 2022, 1–2pm (AEDT, UTC+11), Online via Zoom The use of indigenized Arabic forms a collective identity for the Nigerian writers of Arabic to distinguish their literary outputs from other Arabic…
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Decolonial Gazing and Hermeneutic Resistance: Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony in the Museum
Tomorrow, Thurs 6/10 @4:30pm AEDT (with apologies for late posting) This work in progress essay highlights the ways that Black Europeans, in this case in the German context, challenge universalizing notions of cultural heritage to highlight decolonial possibilities and interrogate the collection, display, and spectatorship of museum objects in majority-white contexts. I use the Berlin…
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Transforming Small-Scale Irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 2–5pm Small-scale irrigation schemes have been identified as a major vehicle to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers and their communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including improving food security, education, health and adapting to climate change. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded the project Transforming Small-scale Irrigation in…
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The Wrestlers of Khartoum, Sudan: An Embodied Material Culture of Virility
Congratulations to Dr Paul Hayes, who recently graduated from the PhD program of ANU’s anthropology department. Paul’s dissertation, “The Wrestlers of Khartoum, Sudan: An Embodied Material Culture of Virility” is available to download here. Paul also co-produced a short film, Lions of Khartoum: Sudan’s Wrestlers After a Revolution.
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Studying Africa in Australia – Report and Public Lecture
The results of research into the current situation of African studies in the Australian Capital Territory, are available online. A lengthy report, contextualizing the past and present situation of African studies in Canberra, with reference to international developments, and a shorter article recently published in the Australasian Review of African Studies, focusing on changes in…
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Studying Africa in Australia: The Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Lecture
On Africa Day, May 25, Dr Ibrahim Abraham (Humanities Research Centre, ANU) presents the annual Future of the Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture, a critical overview of the study of Africa in Australia in the past and present, with an eye to the future. In a time of increasing disciplinary fragmentation in the humanities and…
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ASPI Podcast on Unrest in South Africa
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute‘s podcast “Policy, Guns and Money” recently interviewed the Humanities Research Centre’s Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences, Dr Ibrahim Abraham, on the unrest in South Africa following the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma. Dr Abraham’s book Race, Class & Christianity in South Africa:…
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ANU Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowships Program – “Mobilities”
Applications for the 2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program – on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ – are now open. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the humanities and as a catalyst for innovative humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. The…
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ASPI Africa Day podcast
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.
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Virtual Book Launch – Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities
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…