Category: ANU
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African Studies Reading Group – Thursday 27 June 2019 – Water Access and Agency in West Africa
ANU African Studies Reading Group Water Access and Agency: Thinking through Thresholds of Control As the African continent, and the world, becomes more globally interconnected, scholars and politicians alike have come to speak in terms of “flows” of people, things, technologies, and ideas. One particularly productive material to think through such flows is water. “Water…
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Seminar: Fluid Boundaries: Politicising Rituals of Purity in Ghana
Presenter: Kirsty Wissing (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, ANU) Title: Fluid Boundaries: Politicising Rituals of Purity in Ghana Date: Friday 14 June, 3-5pm. Venue: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building (Building 14) Abstract: In this presentation, I will analyse how flows of fluids and people shape each other in southern Ghana. They do so both literally and…
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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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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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The first Caldwell African Research Visiting Fellow
Dr Makandwe Nyirenda from the Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has been awarded the first John C Caldwell African Research Visiting Fellowship and should arrive at the ANU later this year. The Fellowship is funded through the John C (Jack) Caldwell Chair in Population, Health and Development…
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“The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa” 04/09/2014
Please see the below information on an informal presentation by RegNet PhD Visiting Fellow, Charlotte Heyl. Charlotte is part of our DAAD Research Exchange Program with the GIGA Institute of African Affairs (Hamburg, Germany) led by Dr. Bjoern Dressel of the Crawford School. The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in…
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Africa Australia Conference Opening
Senator Brett Mason, an ANU graduate, is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Australia’s Federal Coalition Government. His positive remarks to the Australia Africa conference held at the ANU on 15 July, 2014, can be found at https://ministers.dfat.gov.au/mason/speeches/Pages/2014/bm_sp_140715.aspx
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Humanitarian and skilled immigrants from Africa – Seminar, Friday 1 August
Friday 1 August 2014 2:30-3:30pm Seminar Room A Coombs Building (9) Fellows Road ANU Humanitarian and skilled immigrants from Africa: Their demography and human capital To date our study of Africans in Australia has compared Humanitarian entrants from Africa with other migrant categories. This presentation seeks comments on the next step which will focus on…