Speaker: Dr Mark Dybul, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Time & Date: Monday 29 February 2016, 5.30pm Venue: Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU Event-url: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/6893/2016-harold-mitchell… Dr Dybul has worked on HIV and public health for more than 25 years as a clinician, scientist,…

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The ANU African Student Association (ANUASA) has posted this on Facebook “PARSA Big Day is happening tomorrow at 10AM, Saturday 20 February at Fellows Meadow (directly opposite Chifley Library). ANUASA will be taking part in the Big Day by cooking and serving African dishes at our own stall. So please come along and support us.…

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“Law and governance in sub-Saharan Africa’ – Masters Course offered at ANU is open for enrolments The course is offered intensively over 4 days in Canberra in Spring (September). Through online portals we distribute readings etc. Note that people can enrol in this course without needing to be enrolled in a Masters programme. They receive…

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Devpolicy News reports that ‘Registrations for the 2016 Australasian Aid Conference (10-11 Feb) have already broken the records set in the last two years. Make sure you register as soon as you can to avoid disappointment. Less than two weeks to go! If you are wondering what all the fuss is about, check out this…

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Dr Graham Walker (ANU National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science) has taken his science shows to 41,000 children in Africa as part of an 11-week tour through five countries. Dr Walker and teammate Joe Duggan lugged magnets and other everyday items to be transformed into science experiments on their Science Circus tour of…

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Congratulations to Linda Devereux who completed her thesis in 2015, entitled, “Narrating a congo missionary childhood (1958 – 1964) : memory and meaning examined through a creative non-fiction text and exegesis.” The study analyses the transnational childhood experience of the daughter of medical missionaries who worked for the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) in the Democratic…

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ANU Demography seminar Presented by School of Demography and National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Researching health and well-being of older adults in a context of a severe HIV epidemic: A personal perspective Presenter: Dr Makandwe Nyirenda Date and time: Thursday 3 December 2015, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Location: Bob Douglas Lecture Theatre, Building 62…

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When China Met Africa is a 74 minute film in Chinese with English subtitles. It will be screened at 5.30 on Wednesday, December 2nd, in The Auditorium, China in the World Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU. Fellows Lane is behind the Law Building, enter near the bridge. The screening will be followed by a discussion with…

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From Margaret O’Callaghan (Crawford School, ANU) In November, 2015, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific through the Crawford School’s Resources Environment and Development Program, hosted an international conference on informal (or artisanal) mining in the contemporary world as part of two ARC research grant funded projects. The primary purpose was to engage with the scholarly understanding…

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The African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific AFSAAP will hold its 38th annual conference at the Deakin University campus at 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne, from October 28-30, 2015.  Wednesday 28th will be the Postgraduates Day. The main conference will be held on the Thursday and Friday. Contributors from the ANU will include Cristina Kenny, Ibi…

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