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    The Australasian AID Conference 2025

    We are pleased to announce the 2025 AAC will be held from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December at the Australian National University in Canberra.The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, AND BEYOND who are working on aid and international development policy (the AID in the…

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    Meeting with Dr Hassan Khannenje

    On 17 June 2025, Dr Hassan Khannenje, Director of the HORN International Institute of Strategic Studies in Kenya, addressed a group of Africanists at the ANU Law School. He was accompanied by Mr Stuart Smith, First Secretary at the Australian High Commission in Nairobi. The gathering brought together, among others, people from the ANU African…

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    Update from the Australian Review of African Studies (ARAS). May 2025.

    Dr Rugare, Mugumbate, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, is the new Editor-in-Chief of ARAS. See: Update from the Australian Review of African Studies (ARAS) – The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific

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    African Day Indaba 2025

    You can read the Concept Brief for Africa Day Indaba 2025 – Australasia and the Pacific at https://africasocialwork.net/africa-day-indaba-2025-for-australasia-and-the-pacific/You can read more about Africa Day at https://au.int/en/theme/2025

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    Judith Neilson steps up for Africa

    From the Australian Financial Review dated 3 May, 2025: Bulawayo-born billionaire Judith Neilson, through the Judith Neilson Foundation, has boosted funds by A$10 million to Africa, including public health programs. This is in response to the cuts in USAID.

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    Africa Festival

    Africa Festival Canberra 5 April 2025 in Commonwealth Park See https://www.facebook.com/Africapartyinthepark/

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    2025 AFSAAP CONFERENCE POSTPONED

    See https://afsaap.org.au/conferences/perth-2025-february-6-8/

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    Africa identified as a Main Source of International Students

    A report commissioned by Universities Australia ‘identifies Africa as a major source of students by 2050.’ Outgoing university lobby chief Catriona Jackson says the sector needs to capitalise on the emerging African market to stay ahead in the global competition for students, while urging greater acknowledgement of education’s diplomatic clout as Australia vies for influence…

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    African leader wins Young Canberra Citizen of the Year

    The Canberra Times (1/12/24) reports that Vando Celestina Emmy Rabi, who emigrated from South Sudan in 2019, has won the Young Canberra Citizen of the Year award. Ms Rabi lost both her parents at a young age and moved to Australia aged 15 to live with her aunt. She is the executive youth leader at…

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    Jack Caldwell’s Contribution to African Social Science and Health

    ANU School of Demography Seminar Presenters David Lucas & Helen Ware Date Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Time 1:00pm–2:00pm AEDT  (UTC+11) Location Room 4.69, RSSS Building, ANU, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT, and via zoom   Abstract In 2009 a survey of population scientists ranked Professor John Caldwell, universally known as Jack, as the most respected…

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