From the Freilich Project Newsletter:  ‘WE BLEED THE SAME EXHIBITION AND OPENING EVENT We Bleed the Same, by photographer Tim Bauer and journalist and filmmaker Liz Deep-Jones, provides an account of racism in Australia today, as experienced through the eyes of First Nations people, immigrants and refugees. Whether it is overt, covert, or systemic, racism

Read more

Africans and Afro-descendants (HIST2315) is an undergraduate course offered by the School of History. starting in July, 2022. Course convener Dr Karo Moret Miranda For more details seehttps://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2022/course/HIST2315  

Read more

Extracted fromhttps://aaun.edu.au/2021/10/aaun-annual-australia-forum-and-agm-2021-2/ ‘The Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Annual Forum and AGM 2022 will be held on 27-28 October 2022 (TBC) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. The Forum topic for this year is “Universities and Governments: Securities and Economic Development to 2030”.’ The AAUN Forum is being postponed from February, 2022. 

Read more

PhD Seminar – “The standpipe is broken again!” Infrastructure renovation and failure: connecting people, time, place, and space in Nigeria About the speaker Adegboyega Adeniran is a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University. He tutors and works as a research officer at the School About the event ‘Repeated

Read more

From Women in Aid & Development “Canberra event: Volunteering and e-volunteering 6:00 pm 8:30 pm Wednesday, 1 December Hear from speakers who are responsible for developing and funding volunteer programs, and those who have experience volunteering overseas and in Australia. Find out how you can be engaged in meaningful volunteering, and the importance of avoiding

Read more

From  https://aaun.edu.au/2021/10/aaun-annual-australia-forum-and-agm-2021-2/   ‘The Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Annual Forum and AGM 2021-22 will be held on 10-11 February 2022 at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. The Forum topic for this year is “Universities and Governments:  Securities and Economic Development to 2030”. ‘We are grateful to the Australian National University (ANU)

Read more

The Australasian Review of African Studies aims to contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the Pacific. It is published by The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Volume 42, Number 1, June 2021 is available at https://afsaap.org.au/resources/publication/aras/ and contains the following: Promoting and monitoring antimicrobial stewardship using veterinary vocational

Read more

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies has published“What parliamentarians think about Australia’s post-COVID-19 aid program: The emerging ‘cautious consensus’ in Australian aid” Benjamin Day, Tamas WellsFirst published: 01 November 2021https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.338  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app5.338?utm_source=Devpolicy&utm_campaign=9f657373ee-Devpolicy+News+Dec+15+2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_082b498f84-9f657373ee-250032321  Wiley also recommends other articles on aid to Africa at  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3542 Although the Day and Wells article is of general interest, Africa gets only a

Read more

Received from afsaapaustralia@gmail.com“AFSAAP Annual General Meeting – Nov 27th, 2-4pm We would like to announce that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) will be held on the 27th of November from 2-4PM. AFSAAP is the oldest African studies association in Australia, which has been running since

Read more

  Guinean Coup The piece by Ernest Akuamoah (ANU School of Politics and International Relations)  on the Guinean coup is available at  https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/the-coup-in-guinea-causes-and-consequences/  African Writers  On October 7th The Economist reported that Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian writer based in Britain, had been awarded the Nobel prize in Literature for 2021 for “his uncompromising and compassionate

Read more