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    BETWEEN THE PLOUGH AND THE PICK

    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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    Three African Events in Melbourne, October 28th-30th

    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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    AFRICAN CULTURAL DAY 24 OCTOBER

    African Cultural Day Program with the African Australian Community This African Cultural Celebration will include: • African books, poetry reading, a photographic exhibition, African music, sculptures, fabric and jewelry displays • A new book by author, Kabu Okai-Davies, about African migration and memories, Evidence of Nostalgia and Other Stories, will also be launched at this…

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    The ANU in Malawi

      The Global Undergraduate Leadership Program (GULP) is an ANU initiative, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota, which aims to develop skills and experience in the area of sustainable development, and will culminate in a two-week field trip to Malawi. Their fundraising event will be held at University House at 6pm on Monday, October…

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    Africanists Return

    Jo Ford returned to the ANU in July as an Associate Professor in the Law Department. His research interests include law, governance and development, especially  in Sub-Saharan Africa and his forthcoming book is on ‘Regulating Business for Peace’. See https://law.anu.edu.au/staff/jolyon-ford Jo will teach an LLM course ‘Law and Governance in sub-Saharan Africa’ in 2016. Welcome back…

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    Australia Africa Conference at ANU

    The above conference, hosted by the the AAUN, the Australia Africa Business Council, the ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy, and the Heads of African Missions, is on again this year at ANU, from Wednesday, August to Friday, August, 28th. The the panels at the Crawford School on the Thursday will cover: * Investment and…

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    ANU African language lecture

    “Development means eye-red”: Communicating feelings in Glocalised Ghanaian English Humanities Research Centre Seminar Tuesday 18 August 2015, 4.00 – 5.30pm Speaker Dr Felix Ameka, Leiden University, The Netherlands HRC Conference Rm 128, A.D. Hope Building #14, Australian National University

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    Sister Angelique Namaika at ANU

    Sister Angélique Namaika who is visiting Australia as the guest of Australia for UNHCR. is the recipient of the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award – UNHCR’s highest human rights prize – for her ground-breaking work with women and girls, in a conflict area labelled the most dangerous place to be a woman than a soldier in the…

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    Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – 07/05/2015 – Human rights issues confronting women and girls in the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific region

    Evidence relevant to  Africa given to this Parliamentary Committee by Jacqueline Zwambila, Fadzi Whande, and Julia Newton-House can be found at  https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fco3a3fmmjnt%2Fcb260e6e–433f-940a-f8c7c6786ae4%2F0007%22  https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Fcommjnt%2Fcb260e6e-3a3f-433f-940a-f8c7c6786ae4%2F0008%22  

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    Jessie Webb Travel Record “Cape Town to Cairo” 1922 by Margaret O’Callaghan

    This monograph describes a journey undertaken from Cape Town to Cairo, from April to December in 1922 by Jessie Webb and her friend and fellow Melbourne University colleague Dr Georgina Sweet OBE, who was a parasitologist. Material has been transcribed from the handwritten diary and letters, and includes her photographs. An introduction, maps and references…

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