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Ibidolapo Adekoya – Three Minute Thesis Final
PhD candidate Ibidolapo Adekoya will be a finalist in ANU’s Three Minute Thesis competition on 4 September, and her research has just been profiled in The Canberra Times: When Ibidolapo Adekoya first got the opportunity to research malaria proteins she “couldn’t say no”. The Australian National University PhD student, who grew up in Nigeria, has
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Linguistics Seminar – “After Shaka: IsiZulu Language in Ideology and Social History”
Fri 23 Aug 2019, 3.30pm Basham Seminar Room, BPB Level 1, ANU IsiZulu, a major language of South Africa, is not a static monolith, except as some people’s ideologies of language have so imagined it. This presentation traces some major historical events and changes, starting in the early nineteenth century, that have affected Zulu ways
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August and September Events
August 14: “The Good Migrant: Gender, Race, and Naturalisation in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and Australia,” Rachael Bright (Keele University, UK). https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/events/rachel-bright-keele-good-migrant-gender-race-and-naturalisation-early-twentieth-century August 16: “‘Just Exhaustion!’: Motherhood, Work, and Human Capital Investment in Senegal,” Kathryn E. McHarry (University of Chicago). https://africanetwork.weblogs.anu.edu.au/2019/08/13/just-exhaustion/ 23 August: “Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan.” Paul Hayes (ANU)
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“Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan”
Date and time: Friday 23 August, 3–5pm Speaker: Paul Hayes (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, ANU) Location: Milgate Room, Level 2, A.D. Hope Building (#14), ANU This post-fieldwork seminar examines the bodily practices and related material culture of young men in Khartoum, Sudan, who practice ‘Nuba wrestling’, a combat sport indigenous to Sudan. Based on 12
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“Just Exhaustion!”: Motherhood, Work, and Human Capital Investment in Senegal
Date &Time: Friday 16 August, 3pm-5pm Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University Abstract: Over the past two decades, the Senegalese state has reimagined national commitments to care for children and families as a politics of investment. Senegalese families today have unprecedented state support for their children following the creation of Senegal’s national early childhood care
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The Good Migrant: Gender, Race, and Naturalisation in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and Australia
Speaker: Rachael Bright, Keele University Wed 14 Aug, 4.15–5.30pm, McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU What does a good migrant look like? How do migration officials identify ‘good’ migrants and how do potential migrants navigate this process? This paper will explore the development of early twentieth century migration laws and bureaucracies in South Africa and Australia
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Prosecuting South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Crimes (CANCELLED)
“Prosecuting South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Crimes: Helping or Hurting Reconciliation?” Professor Mia Swart (Visiting Professor at Wits University Law School, Johannesburg) THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
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Indigenous Women in International Law
Veronica Fynn will be presenting her work on “Indigenous Women in International Law” and will be graduating from NCIS PhD program on the 19th July 2019. 18 July, 12.00, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Level 3 Conference Room, John Yencken Building, ANU Abstract: The respect for human rights in international law entails a basic principle
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African Studies Reading Group – Thursday 27 June 2019 – Water Access and Agency in West Africa
ANU African Studies Reading Group Water Access and Agency: Thinking through Thresholds of Control As the African continent, and the world, becomes more globally interconnected, scholars and politicians alike have come to speak in terms of “flows” of people, things, technologies, and ideas. One particularly productive material to think through such flows is water. “Water