Category: Seminar
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“Now I am Dead”: Anthropological Encounters with the Other
WEDNESDAY 04 DEC 2019, 5:30pm–7pm, Lady Wilson Room (2.10) Sir Roland Wilson Building (#120), ANU (Note change of date to Wednesday 04 December at 5:30pm) “If anthropology is founded on the violence of speaking for others,” anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker asks in the thought-provoking short film Now I am Dead (2018), “then how can I relate…
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Maxine Beneba Clarke in Conversation with Zoya Patel
Award winning author, Maxine Beneba Clarke (editor of Growing Up African in Australia), will be in conversation with feminist author and editor, Zoya Patel, about her leadership journey as an Australian born black writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, creating space for other African diaspora voices, and empowering those who’ve been historically sidelined in Australian literature to…
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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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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…
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“Becoming a Wrestler on the Outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan”
Date and time: Friday 23 August, 3–5pm Speaker: Paul Hayes (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, ANU) Location: Milgate Room, Level 2, A.D. Hope Building (#14), ANU This post-fieldwork seminar examines the bodily practices and related material culture of young men in Khartoum, Sudan, who practice ‘Nuba wrestling’, a combat sport indigenous to Sudan. Based on 12…
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“Just Exhaustion!”: Motherhood, Work, and Human Capital Investment in Senegal
Date &Time: Friday 16 August, 3pm-5pm Location: Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University Abstract: Over the past two decades, the Senegalese state has reimagined national commitments to care for children and families as a politics of investment. Senegalese families today have unprecedented state support for their children following the creation of Senegal’s national early childhood care…
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Putting Africa Back into the Politics of British Decolonisation
Anthony Low Commonwealth Lecture 2019 This annual public lecture – in honour and memory of Professor Anthony Low AO, ANU Vice-Chancellor (1975-82) distinguished scholar and university administrator in Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom – will focus on Professor Low’s acute observation that African decolonisation owed as much (if not more) to local African agency…
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The Good Migrant: Gender, Race, and Naturalisation in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa and Australia
Speaker: Rachael Bright, Keele University Wed 14 Aug, 4.15–5.30pm, McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU What does a good migrant look like? How do migration officials identify ‘good’ migrants and how do potential migrants navigate this process? This paper will explore the development of early twentieth century migration laws and bureaucracies in South Africa and Australia…
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Prosecuting South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Crimes (CANCELLED)
“Prosecuting South Africa’s Apartheid-Era Crimes: Helping or Hurting Reconciliation?” Professor Mia Swart (Visiting Professor at Wits University Law School, Johannesburg) THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
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Indigenous Women in International Law
Veronica Fynn will be presenting her work on “Indigenous Women in International Law” and will be graduating from NCIS PhD program on the 19th July 2019. 18 July, 12.00, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Level 3 Conference Room, John Yencken Building, ANU Abstract: The respect for human rights in international law entails a basic principle…