ANU School of Demography Seminar: Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana Date and Time: Tuesday 19 February 2019 – 11.30am – 12:30 pm Location: Jean Martin Room, Beryl Rawson Bldg #13, Ellery Crescent, ANU Presenter: Kirsty Wissing Kirsty is an anthropology PhD candidate at the College of

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Vacancy: Communications and Policy Adviser at ACFID The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) is seeking a creative and propositional Communications and Policy Adviser to bring fresh ideas and new thinking to the secretariat, based in Canberra. Applications close on the 17th of February 2019. For more information see: https://acfid.asn.au/get-involved/acfid-jobs

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Dr Donald Kaberuka, Former President, African Development Bank and Rwanda’s Minister of Finance. will be at ANU next week. Devpolicy  have reached out to the High Commissions  to organise a round table discussion with Dr Kaberuka while he is here 11am, Monday 18 February .  Venue: the China and the World Boardroom.  If you wish to

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19 Feb: Tuesday Demography Seminar with Kirsty Wissing “Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana”. 28 Feb-1 March: Conference: Fertility Transitions, Past and Present. Closed conference presented jointly by the ANU School of Demography and the ANU Centre for Economic History. Full draft program available here. Contact James

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As stated in the post dated 8 December 2018, the ANU’s Development Policy Centre announced that, ‘Now in its sixth year, the Australasian Aid Conference will once again bring together researchers and development practitioners from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and beyond.’ See: https://www.devpolicy.org/events/event/2019-australasian-aid-conference/ “Beyond” includes Africa which is normally lucky to get as much attention

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Speaker Dr André F van Rooyen ‘André is Principal Scientist specializing in integrated agricultural systems in the research program on Innovation Systems for Drylands, at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He uses the characteristics of complex adaptive systems to analyse system functionality and explore opportunities to improve

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The ANU’s Development Policy Centre has announced that ‘Now in its sixth year, the Australasian Aid Conference will once again bring together researchers and development practitioners from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and beyond.’ “Beyond” includes Africa which is normally lucky to get as much attention as Vanuatu. However this year the draft program includes

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ANU School of Demography Seminar Date and Time: Friday 30 November 2018 – 3.00pm – 4.00 pm Location: Jean Martin Room, Beryl Rawson Bldg #13, Ellery Crescent, ANU Presenter: Dr Tamsen Rochat, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Title: Understanding parent and child mental health outcomes and the potential of family-centred interventions in HIV epidemic

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Dr Ibrahim Abraham has recently joined the ANU. From his personal website https://ibrahimabraham.net/ : “I am an Australian sociologist of religion and contemporary culture, currently researching Christianity and social class in South Africa, based in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, where I am the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and

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Speaker: Augustus Panton Augustus is a PhD candidate (economics) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. His PhD research is focused on the monetary policy implications of climate change and alternative climate policy regimes. Augustus has previously worked as an economist in the Research, Policy & Planning Department at the Central Bank of Liberia.

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