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Podcast: Truth and Trust
In this podcast episode, ANU’s Kirsty Wissing joins the Familiar Strange panel to explore ideas of truth and trust as related to her PhD research around water and purity in relation to the hydro-power Akosombo Dam in Ghana. Who decides that water is pure? Who has the authority to decide? Is it a question of…
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Africa and its People: Interdisciplinary Lessons from ANU Research
Wed., 4 March 2020, 9:00am–4:30pm Fenner Seminar Room, Fenner Building (#141), ANU This symposium style event will examine the ANU’s research work in Africa, and facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.A lunch will be provided, allowing for networking and informal discussion. More details. Register here
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The 2016 Zambian Elections and the Role of the International Community
African Studies Reading Group, Thursday 21 November 17:00 Lady Wilson Room, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit THE 2016 ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Zambia had long been hailed as a model in the region so hopes were (naively) high that the 2016 presidential election was going to be undertaken…
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Intra-Party Politics and Conflict in Ghana
African Studies Reading Group, Thursday 24 October, 5 pm. Lady Wilson Room, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU. Recent studies on democratization and conflicts in Africa have largely focused on civil wars, as well as national, sub-national and local elections. Little attention has been given to conflict and violence as a result of…
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Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme
ANU’s Herbert & Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry is welcoming applications for the 2019 round of the Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme (for activities to be undertaken in 2020). Three grants of up to $5000 each will be awarded to emerging scholars to assist research into the causes, the histories and…
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Congratulations to Ibidolapo Adekoya!
Congratulations to Ibidolapo Adekoya, as well as Lithin Louis and Anushka Vidanage, prize winners in the ANU’s 2019 Three Minute Thesis event!
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Seminar: “Dual Exposure: Transcendental Harm in the Islamic Ontology of Pollution in Tunisia”
Wed 28 Aug 2019, 9.30–11am Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri/Room 3.03, Building 155 Exposure to harmful substances typically occurs through the entanglements of bodies and materials in late industrialism. How this exposure is measured depends as much on the sensory perception of these materials, as on knowledge and technologies that reveal unperceivable substances, and assess…
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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…