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    Public Lecture – Thursday, 26 June 2014 – Professor Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley

    Speaker/Host:  Professor Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley Venue:  Law Link Theatre, Fellows Lane, ANU College of Law, ANU Date:  Thursday, 26 June 2014 Time:  5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Website:  https://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm Enquiries: ANU Events on 6125 4144 https://billboard.anu.edu.au/event_view.asp?id=108205 A Tale of two gulfs: The social space of the frontier Professor Michael Watts draws upon events from two

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    SSGM SEMINAR 3-4pm Tuesday June 24| Michael J Watts, UC Berkeley

    SSGM Seminar Series Comparing Small Wars: A Political Ecology of Two Insurgenices Speaker: Michael Watts – Professor of Geography and Director of Development Studies at UC Berkeley 3-4pm Tuesday 24 June Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre Corner of Garran Rd and Liversidge St The Australia National University About the Seminar This paper compares two

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    Half of a Yellow Sun

    This film of Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s novel about the Nigerian Civil War will be on national release from March 27th. Film reviewer David Stratton writing in The Weekend Australian gives it four stars out of five and writes that it is “a significant achievement for the embryonic Nigerian film industry.”

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