Author: David William Lucas
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Sister Angelique Namaika at ANU
Sister Angélique Namaika who is visiting Australia as the guest of Australia for UNHCR. is the recipient of the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award – UNHCR’s highest human rights prize – for her ground-breaking work with women and girls, in a conflict area labelled the most dangerous place to be a woman than a soldier in the
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Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – 07/05/2015 – Human rights issues confronting women and girls in the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific region
Evidence relevant to Africa given to this Parliamentary Committee by Jacqueline Zwambila, Fadzi Whande, and Julia Newton-House can be found at https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fco3a3fmmjnt%2Fcb260e6e–433f-940a-f8c7c6786ae4%2F0007%22 https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2Fcb260e6e-3a3f-433f-940a-f8c7c6786ae4%2F0008%22
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ANU Healthcare in Africa Seminar – Recap by Margaret O’Callaghan
Canberra members of AFSAAP were delighted to have the subject of Africa appear on the ANU agenda on the 6th May – an uncommon occurrence given the prevailing bias towards Asia and the Pacific. In order to promote discussion on maternal and sexual health, access to healthcare and education and Female Genital Mutilation the ANU
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ANU Circle for Gender Equity: Healthcare in Africa Seminar
Wednesday at 6:00pm – 8:00pm 6th May 2015 Gravity Wave Building #38B 38B Science Road Acton ACT 26 The ANU’s Circle for Gender Equity is proud to hold its second seminar for the semester with the discussion focusing on healthcare in Africa! We will be promoting discussion on maternal and sexual health, access to healthcare
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Jessie Webb Travel Record “Cape Town to Cairo” 1922 by Margaret O’Callaghan
This monograph describes a journey undertaken from Cape Town to Cairo, from April to December in 1922 by Jessie Webb and her friend and fellow Melbourne University colleague Dr Georgina Sweet OBE, who was a parasitologist. Material has been transcribed from the handwritten diary and letters, and includes her photographs. An introduction, maps and references
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FROM THE ETHIOPIA EMBASSY
“My Name is Michael Davis – Liaison Officer at the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Canberra. My role at the Embassy is to share all things Ethiopian with communities in Australian and New Zealand. I promote public awareness of everything from Ethiopian food and culture, to Ethiopia’s economic growth and renewable
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SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSION
Mr Sibusiso Ndebele, the High Commissioner-designate for the Republic of South Africa to Australia, has already made contact with the academic community in Canberra. On his left is Alec Thornton from UNSW Canberra, the Vice-President of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific. On his right is David Lucas from the ANU. Mr
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Emeritus Professor Donald Anthony Low AO (1927-2015)
We regret to announce the death of Anthony Low, one of the ANU’s most distinguished Africanists, in Canberra. Appropriately for the first President of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Anthony Low announced his retirement from African Studies at the 2012 AFSAAP conference at Burgmann College, ANU. He had thus spent over
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Diane Johnstone
Congratulations to Di Johnstone of Deakin, ACT, who became AM (Member in the General Division) in the Australia Day Honours, ‘For significant service to international relations through support for creative arts in South Africa, and to the community in Canberra.’ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/di-johnstone-honoured-for-services-to-art-animals-and-community-20150125-12ww1b.html Di and another former Australian diplomat to South Africa, Bruce Haigh, were founding donors
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38th AFSAAP Conference – Deakin University 2015
38th AFSAAP Conference Deakin University, Melbourne CBD 28 – 30 October 2015 See https://afsaap.org.au/conference/conference-20 ‘The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific welcomes to its 2015 conference, papers from academics, researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers with interests in African studies, both on the African continent and in the Australasia and Pacific region. Papers from all