African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific

Thursday 27th November 2008
Building a Common Future – Africa and Australasia
Main Conference Program
8.30-9.00am / Registration
State Library Victoria Conference Centre
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne
9.00-9.15am / Welcome and Introduction
Dr Geoffrey Hawker
President
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Professor Stephanie Fahey
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International)
MonashUniversity
9.15-10.00am / KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Peace Making and Power Sharing in Africa: Building on the South African Experience
Mr Mac Maharaj
Introduced by Professor Simon Adams, Deputy Pro Vice=-Chancellor (International) and Head, School of Arts, MonashUniversity
10.00 – 10.30am / Community Forum Panel 1 [Seminar Room] continuing after morning tea (please see below)
Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES)
Maria Tsopanis, Community and Social Enterprise Coordinator
The Centre for Multicultural Youth
Ms Faten Mohamed
10.30-11.00am / Morning Tea
11.00am-12.00pm / Session 1 [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Australia-Africa Education and Development Capability Alignment Strategy
Mr. Amadu Barrie, Centrelink
Understanding the Causal Relationship between ARV Treatment Failure and receiving a Temporary Disability Grant: A practical Study Darren Gough, Director, The Institute for Youth Development South Africa
South African social innovation and community development – strategies and perspectives for Australia? - Ms Anthea FAWCETT, Director, Southern Exchange / Session 2 [Seminar Room]
Strengthening community action on alcohol problems in South Africa and Indigenous Australia Dr Maggie Brady (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, AustralianNationalUniversity)
Language, identity and settlement: exploring language maintenance and settlement issues among Sudanese refugees in regional Australia Dr Aniko Hatoss, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland
Colonial anthropology or the anthropology of modernity? Max Gluckman’s vision of southern African society, 1939–1947Dr Paul Cocks, Loyola College, Victoria
Community Forum Panel 2 [Seminar Room]
Multicultural Health and Support Service (MHSS)
Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH)
Ms. Naomi Ngo
‘Given the Chance’ – the Brotherhood of St Laurence
Jo Tabit, Program Manager: Given the Chance
Warrnambool-Colac Sudanese Communities supporting integration in Rural Victoria
Anne Waters
Manager, Community Support
Victoria Police
Leading Senior Constable Joseph Herrech
Region 5 (South East) Multicultural Liaison Unit
12.00-1.00pm / Lunch
1.00-2.30pm / Session 3 [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Mediatised public crisis and the racialisation of African youth in AustraliaJoel Windle, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, MonashUniversity
Delivery of Settlement Services for inclusion, Growth, and advancement in the Australian wider community by the “Eastern And Central Africa Communities of Victoria Inc.” - Theresa Sengaaga Ssali, Eastern and Central Africa Communities of Victoria Inc
Racism experience for young Southern Sudanese men in Melbourne - Ndungi wa Mungai
African Cultural Education and the African Youth in Western Australia: Experimenting with the Ujamaa Circle - Mr Peter Mbago Wakholi, High School Teacher and Doctoral Candidate, MurdochUniversity
AMES Social Enterprises – Providing Pathways for African Migrants
Cath Scarth, General Manager Community and Policy, Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) /

Session 4 [Seminar Room]

African Small business in Victoria - Mr Abdiwahid Hassan, School of Accounting and Finance, VictoriaUniversity
Digital Disaster Recovery Planning for Sub-Saharan African Countries - A. Aden Ibrahim, Somali Cultural
Australian Miners in Africa: Some dot points and research questions – Dr David Lucas, AustralianNationalUniversity
Quantifying the Cost of African Brain Drain: An Economic Analysis of Diasporic Remittance to Nigeria, Dr Chika Anyanwu, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Media, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2.30-3.00pm / Afternoon Tea
3.00-3.45pm / Session 5 [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Diasporic Sensibility - Kirk Zwangobani, University of Canberra
Slowing the implosion of the Horn of Africa - Mr Mohamed Ibrahim, Chairman, Centre for Research and Dialogue, Mogadishu, Somalia
An AFSAAP Renaissance? – Dr David Lucas, AustralianNationalUniversity / Session 6 [Seminar Room]
Collecting Then and Now: Recent African Acquisitions at The SouthAustralianMuseum - Dr Tabawebbula J Kivubiro, MargaretTrowellSchool of Fine & Industrial Arts, MakerereUniversityKampala, Uganda
‘Discipline and Punish’: Inscribing Metaphors of the Body in Zimbabwe’s Postcolonial Crisis - Mr. Matereke Kudzai, PhD Candidate (Australia) and Lecturer (Zimbabwe), University of New South Wales and GreatZimbabweUniversity
CapeFlats Smile – Ismail Larney, TAFE Teacher, Dental Prosthetist, TAFENSW
3.45-4.00pm / Break
4.00-5.00pm / Focus Panel – SUSTAINABILITY
Chair: Dr Christian Kull, MonashUniversity
Panel Presentations featuring:
Dr Emma Archer – University of the Witwatersrand
Climate change challenges to commercial agriculture in an arid biodiversity hotspot
Dr Simon Batterbury–Director, Office for Environmental ProgramsUniversity of Melbourne
Dr Haripriya Rangan– MonashUniversity
5.00-6.00pm / Drinks
Book Launch [Seminar Room 1] - "African Cultural Education and the African Youth in Western Australia: Experimenting with the Ujamaa Circle"
Peter Mbago Wakholi
Founder and Coordinator African Cultural Memory Youth Arts Festival (ACMYAF)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, MurdochUniversity
6.00-8.00pm / African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual General Meeting
Seminar Room 1
Friday 28th November 2008
Building a Common Future – Africa and Australasia Main Conference Program
8.30-9.00am / Registration
Conference Centre
State Library Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne
9.00-10.30am / Session 7 – Village Roadshow Theatrette
Reconceptualising Statelessness in Africa– Ms Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, MonashUniversity
Development Co-operation, Crisis Management Vs EU Visibility in Africa– Dr Patrick Kimunguyi – MonashUniversity
The new scramble for Africa – plunder and resistance - Leo Zeilig, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Globalisation, Failed States and Pharmaceutical Colonialism in Africa- Dr. Tanya Lyons, Senior Lecturer, School of Political and International Studies, and the Globalisation Program, and 2009 Editor of the Australasian Review of African Studies
China’s Investment in Africa: Expanding the ‘Yellow River Capitalism’ and its implications – Dr Connie Zheng, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, RMITUniversity
The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping: the experience of MONUC – Mr Jim Terrie, Independent Consultant (former Senior Analyst – International Crisis Group Africa)
10.30-11.00am / Morning Tea
11.00am-12.00pm / Session 8 – Village Roadshow Theatrette
National Identity and the Visual Arts, Professor Bernard Hoffert, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Art and Design, MonashUniversity
Art and Democracy in South Africa – A Southern Perspective - Dr Kevin Murray, Faculty of Art & Design, MonashUniversity.
‘Caught in the Crossfire: writing conflict in two African novels.’ - Dr Dianne Schwerdt, Discipline of English, University of Adelaide
Attitudes towards language and speech communities in Senegal: a cross-attitudinal study – Dr Ibrahima Diallo, Lecturer, University of South Australia
12.00-1.00pm / Lunch
1.00-2.00pm / Session 9 – Village Roadshow Theatrette
On the question of the marginalisation of community groups - some lessons from rural South Africa Patrick McAllister, Anthropology Programme Director, University of Canterbury
Justice for the Oromo People – Mr Hailu Goche, RMITUniversity
Experiences of Working Mothers in Adelaide (Australia) And Harare (Zimbabwe) - Dr Virginia MAPEDZAHAMA, lecturer, University of South Australia
World Heritage: People or Places? Partnerships for the Integration of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Australia and South Africa – Professor Lee Godden, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
2.00-2.30pm / Afternoon Tea
2.30-3.45pm / Session 10 – Village Roadshow Theatrette
Climate change and food security: predicted changes in nutritional quality of cassava under future climate scenarios – Dr Roslyn Gleadow School of Biological Science, MonashUniversityand Dr Julie Cliff, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Africa hit hardest by global warming despite its low greenhouse gas emissions - Dr Temesgen Kifle, School of Economics, University of Queensland
'Towards a critical introduction to an Italian post-colonial literature'- Ali Mumin Ahad, School of Historical and European Studies, Italian Program, La Trobe University, Melbourne
3.45-4.00pm / Break
4.00-5.00pm / Focus Panel – Approaches to research training and capacity building for health improvement in Africa [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Chair: Dr Nadine Ezard, Program Director, Monash Initiative for Global Health Improvement
Panel presentations featuring:
Capacity building with Burnet Institute’s NGO partners in Mozambique
Associate Professor Mike Toole – Head, Centre for International Health, The Burnet Institute
Through the eyes of an African-Australian….
MrHeritier O'Brien –AFL – Collingwood Football Club
Needs for research training and capacity building in Africa
Professor Lenore Manderson - Hillel Friedland Fellow, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Professor, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
5.00-5.30pm / Conference Close
Dr Geoffrey Hawker
President
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific