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Virtual Book Launch – Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities
Monday, 30 August 2021, 5pm-6pm AEST Free and online: register here via Eventbrite This zoom webinar will launch the new book Race, Class and Christianity in South Africa: Middle-Class Moralities by Ibrahim Abraham. Exploring the relationship between race and class among middle-class Christians in South Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers of
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Tomorrow (20 May): Senegambian Rhythmic Traditions, Embodied Knowledge, and Adaptation
Senegambian Rhythmic Traditions, Embodied Knowledge, and Adaptation Lamine Sonko and King Marong Date & time: Thursday 20 May 2021, 3.30–5pm Location: Kingsland Room, Level 6, ANU School of Music In this research seminar, Lamine Sonko and King Marong will reflect on their longterm engagement with embodied knowledge of ancient rhythmic traditions in West Africa, as
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Performance in the Studio – West African Percussion
ANU School of Music Wed 19 May, 6–7.30pm Join Gambian master percussionist, King Marong, Senegalese multi-instrumentalist, Lamine Sonko, music technology convenor Professor Samantha Bennett, and musicology convenor Dr Bonnie McConnell in ANU’s world class recording studio for a special performance/recording exploring Gambian and Senegalese culture. Please note places are strictly limited to 25. Click for details and registration.
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God, Development, and Technology Transfer: Mediated Ethics between Chinese and Ethiopians
Dr. Liang Chen Australian Centre on China in the World Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4.00pm – 5.30pm Online and in person, China in the World seminar rooms (Building 188), Fellows Lane, ANU Details and link to registration here. Abstract The rolling out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and overseas projects provides a window to
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Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa and Victoria
Date and time: Thursday 08 Apr 2021, 1–2pm Speaker: Ibrahim Abraham Event series: Freilich Research Network Event Location: online zoom webinar, register here Victoria’s recently announced Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draws inspiration from the famous TRC initiated in South Africa in 1995. Both initiatives endeavour to reveal historical truths and heal broken and unjust
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Books that Changed Humanity: J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Date and time: Friday 19 Mar 2021, 5.30–6.45pm Speakers: Dr Ibrahim Abraham (Humanities Research Centre, ANU) Location: Zoom (registration required) Series: Books that Changed Humanity Dr Ibrahim Abraham explores this controversial masterpiece of post-apartheid South Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. Disgrace is the novel that not only earned Coetzee (another) Booker Prize but
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The Individual Deprivation Measure South Africa Country Study Results
Helen Suich, Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy (ANU) The Individual Deprivation Measure, or IDM, is an individual-level, gender sensitive measure of multidimensional deprivation—it measures deprivation at the individual rather than household level, and is designed to discern differences in the experiences of poverty between men and women. The IDM program was a
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Lions of Khartoum: Sudan’s Wrestlers After a Revolution
Lions of Khartoum (29 minutes / Sudan / English subtitles) explores the role of Khartoum’s iconic wrestlers in the Sudanese revolution of 2019, through the voice of Mudawi, a childhood wrestler-turned-wrestling commentator. Until the 2019 Sudanese revolution, Khartoum’s local wrestling organisation was run by Islamist party acolytes (kīzān), who were more focused on making money
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International Alumna of the Year Award – Angella Ndaka
Congratulations to Angella Ndaka, who has been awarded the 2020 ANU International Alumna of the Year Award for her important contribution to gender and social inclusion in Kenya. After graduating from ANU in 2015, Angella formed the team that set up the Women in Leadership Network (WILN)-Kenya chapter. She is the current chairperson of the
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All Public Events Cancelled at ANU
As a precautionary measure and based upon the advice from our expert panel, we will cancel all public and social events from Monday 16 March until the end of semester one, Saturday 20 June. This is a precautionary measure that we know will be disappointing for many, but our aim is to reduce opportunities for