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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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Demography at the ANU
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19 Feb: Tuesday Demography Seminar with Kirsty Wissing “Pure water: purity and power in ritual meanings and uses of water in Ghana”.
28 Feb-1 March: Conference: Fertility Transitions, Past and Present. Closed conference presented jointly by the ANU School of Demography and the ANU Centre for Economic History. Full draft program available here. Contact James Raymer or Edith Gray if you are interested in attending the conference.
This program includes:
1 March “Pathways through fertility transition in developing countries; 1960-2015”
(Tom Moultrie University of Cape Town)
“Stopping and Spacing in Settler South Africa’s Fertility Transition”
Martine Mariotti (RSE, ANU) and Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University)Recent Demography Publications
Collin Payne, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans-Peter Kohler. Private intergenerational transfers, family structure and health in a sub-Saharan African context, Population and Development Review (online) pp 1-40. Joanie M Mitchell, Mark Tomlinson, Ruth M Bland, Brian Houle, Alan Stein and Tamsen J Rochat. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Kaufman assessment battery in a sample of primary school-aged children in rural South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology 2018, Vol. 48(4) 434-452
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The 2019 Australasian Aid Conference and Africa
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As stated in the post dated 8 December 2018, the ANU’s Development Policy Centre announced that, ‘Now in its sixth year, the Australasian Aid Conference will once again bring together
researchers and development practitioners from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia,
and beyond.’See: https://www.devpolicy.org/events/event/2019-australasian-aid-conference/
“Beyond” includes Africa which is normally lucky to get as much attention as Vanuatu. However, this year the program includes several mentions of Africa and Africanists, as follows:
Day One February 19th, 2019, 9.40-10.30am
Keynote address – The future of Africa
Molonglo Theatre [Overflow: Weston Theatre]
Dr Donald Kaberuka, Former President, African Development Bank and Rwanda’s Minister of Finance’PRESENTERS
‘Transdisciplinary research for food and nutrition security: experiences from work in Africa and Southeast Asia’, Federico Davila, Research Principal – Food Systems, University of Technology Sydney
‘Public-private partnerships – working at the coal face with African governments to truly break the cycle of poverty’, Cassandra Treadwell, CEO and Founder, So They Can
SESSION CHAIRS
Jane Kennedy, Associate Director – Asia and Africa, UnitingWorldAime Saba, Information Management Office – Food Security Cluster, World Food Programme
Robyn Alders, Senior Scientific Advisor, Centre for Global Health Security
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Transforming small-scale irrigation in Zimbabwe
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Speaker
Dr André F van Rooyen
‘André is Principal Scientist specializing in integrated agricultural systems in the research program on Innovation Systems for Drylands, at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He uses the characteristics of complex adaptive systems to analyse system functionality and explore opportunities to improve and develop more diverse and integrated agricultural systems.’Venue
Frank Fenner Seminar Room
Frank Fenner Building 141
Linnaeus Way, Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 6200For More Information see https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/transforming-small-scale-irrigation-zimbabwe
Parking
‘There are several parking options nearby the venue, please allow at least 20 minutes to find a park and walk to the building. Parking information can be found on the ANU website.’Bus Route
Routes 3 and 7 (weekdays) and route 934 (weekends), travel through the middle of the ANU campus.