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Africa and its People: Interdisciplinary Lessons from ANU Research
Wed., 4 March 2020, 9:00am–4:30pm Fenner Seminar Room, Fenner Building (#141), ANU This symposium style event will examine the ANU’s research work in Africa, and facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.A lunch will be provided, allowing for networking and informal discussion. More details. Register here
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The 2016 Zambian Elections and the Role of the International Community
African Studies Reading Group, Thursday 21 November 17:00 Lady Wilson Room, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit THE 2016 ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Zambia had long been hailed as a model in the region so hopes were (naively) high that the 2016 presidential election was going to be undertaken
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“Now I am Dead”: Anthropological Encounters with the Other
WEDNESDAY 04 DEC 2019, 5:30pm–7pm, Lady Wilson Room (2.10) Sir Roland Wilson Building (#120), ANU (Note change of date to Wednesday 04 December at 5:30pm) “If anthropology is founded on the violence of speaking for others,” anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker asks in the thought-provoking short film Now I am Dead (2018), “then how can I relate
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2020 Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award
Applications are invited for the 2020 Royal Commonwealth Society’s Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award. The award, of up to $5000, is intended to help with expenses, including travel, associated with a research or education project to be conducted in a Commonwealth country, including Australia. Criteria There is no restriction on the field of study or endeavour,
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Intra-Party Politics and Conflict in Ghana
African Studies Reading Group, Thursday 24 October, 5 pm. Lady Wilson Room, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU. Recent studies on democratization and conflicts in Africa have largely focused on civil wars, as well as national, sub-national and local elections. Little attention has been given to conflict and violence as a result of
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Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme
ANU’s Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry is welcoming applications for the 2019 round of the Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme (for activities to be undertaken in 2020). Three grants of up to $5000 each will be awarded to emerging scholars to assist research into the causes, the histories and
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Exhibition: Photography, Race and Slavery: African Sitters of Qajar Era Iran (UNSW, Sydney)
(Ordinarily we restrict posts on this site to events in Canberra, but this fascinating exhibition about a little known aspect of African and African diasporic history is an exception to the rule. -IA) Photography, Race and Slavery: African sitters of Qajar Era Iran – Seminar and Exhibition Opening Curated by Dr Pedram Khosronejad (Western Sydney University), this
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Congratulations to Ibidolapo Adekoya!
Congratulations to Ibidolapo Adekoya, as well as Lithin Louis and Anushka Vidanage, prize winners in the ANU’s 2019 Three Minute Thesis event!
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Maxine Beneba Clarke in Conversation with Zoya Patel
Award winning author, Maxine Beneba Clarke (editor of Growing Up African in Australia), will be in conversation with feminist author and editor, Zoya Patel, about her leadership journey as an Australian born black writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, creating space for other African diaspora voices, and empowering those who’ve been historically sidelined in Australian literature to
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Seminar: “Dual Exposure: Transcendental Harm in the Islamic Ontology of Pollution in Tunisia”
Wed 28 Aug 2019, 9.30–11am Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri/Room 3.03, Building 155 Exposure to harmful substances typically occurs through the entanglements of bodies and materials in late industrialism. How this exposure is measured depends as much on the sensory perception of these materials, as on knowledge and technologies that reveal unperceivable substances, and assess