Category: Seminar
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Mortality in Africa and elsewhere
ANU School of Demography Seminar Date and Time: Tuesday 2 July 2019 – 11.30am – 12.30 pm Location: Jean Martin Room, Beryl Rawson Bldg #13, Ellery Crescent, ANU Presenter: Dr Sam Clark, Ohio State University Title: A General Mortality Model & Moving Verbal Autopsy from Research to Routine Use Abstract This seminar will have two…
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Gareth Evans on “The Responsibility to Protect in Africa”
On May 24, The Herbert and Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry partnered with The Humanities Research Centre to host ANU Chancellor and former Foreign Affairs Minister, the Hon Gareth Evans, for the 2019 Africa Week lecture, on the topic “The Responsibility to Protect in Africa.” Further details and photos are available on the Freilich…
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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…