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    Tomorrow (20 May): Senegambian Rhythmic Traditions, Embodied Knowledge, and Adaptation

    Senegambian Rhythmic Traditions, Embodied Knowledge, and Adaptation Lamine Sonko and King Marong Date & time: Thursday 20 May 2021, 3.30–5pm Location: Kingsland Room, Level 6, ANU School of Music In this research seminar, Lamine Sonko and King Marong will reflect on their longterm engagement with embodied knowledge of ancient rhythmic traditions in West Africa, as…

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    Performance in the Studio – West African Percussion

    ANU School of Music Wed 19 May, 6–7.30pm Join Gambian master percussionist, King Marong, Senegalese multi-instrumentalist, Lamine Sonko, music technology convenor Professor Samantha Bennett, and musicology convenor Dr Bonnie McConnell in ANU’s world class recording studio for a special performance/recording exploring Gambian and Senegalese culture. Please note places are strictly limited to 25. Click for details and registration.

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    God, Development, and Technology Transfer: Mediated Ethics between Chinese and Ethiopians

    Dr. Liang Chen Australian Centre on China in the World Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4.00pm – 5.30pm Online and in person, China in the World seminar rooms (Building 188), Fellows Lane, ANU Details and link to registration here. Abstract The rolling out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and overseas projects provides a window to…

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    Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa and Victoria

    Date and time: Thursday 08 Apr 2021, 1–2pm Speaker: Ibrahim Abraham  Event series:  Freilich Research Network Event Location: online zoom webinar, register here Victoria’s recently announced Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draws inspiration from the famous TRC initiated in South Africa in 1995. Both initiatives endeavour to reveal historical truths and heal broken and unjust…

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    Books that Changed Humanity: J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

    Date and time:  Friday 19 Mar 2021, 5.30–6.45pm Speakers:  Dr Ibrahim Abraham (Humanities Research Centre, ANU) Location:  Zoom (registration required) Series:  Books that Changed Humanity Dr Ibrahim Abraham explores this controversial masterpiece of post-apartheid South Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. Disgrace is the novel that not only earned Coetzee (another) Booker Prize but…

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    Decolonizing the University: Conversations across the Creek

    Friday, 09 October 2020, 1–2pm, Online webinar (registration required) Arguing that the institution of the university has been broadly complicit with colonialism, the call to “decolonize” universities and academic practices has been heard across the world, from Cape Town to Oxford to Canberra. But what exactly does it mean to “decolonize” the university or to…

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    The Individual Deprivation Measure South Africa Country Study Results

    Helen Suich, Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy (ANU) The Individual Deprivation Measure, or IDM, is an individual-level, gender sensitive measure of multidimensional deprivation—it measures deprivation at the individual rather than household level, and is designed to discern differences in the experiences of poverty between men and women. The IDM program was a…

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    ANU Africa Network

    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,…

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    AFSAAP 43rd Annual Conference – University of New England – 03-05 Dec 2020

    AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC 43rd Annual Conference “Youthful Optimism for Africa” University of New England, Armidale, NSW 03-05 December 2020   Call for Papers The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) calls for proposals for preorganized panels, roundtables, thematic conversations, and individual papers for its 43rd annual meeting…

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    ANU International Strategy Regional Plans – Africa & Middle East Online “Town Hall Event”

    Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (UTC+10:00) Zoom Webinar Event details and registration here. The Africa & Middle East regional plan, important to review before the event, has been uploaded here.

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