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)
Monash University
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, Monash University
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
10.3011.00am
11.00am12.00pm
Morning Tea
Session 1 [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Session 2 [Seminar Room]
Australia-Africa Education and Development
Capability Alignment Strategy
Mr. Amadu Barrie, Centrelink
Strengthening community action on alcohol
problems in South Africa and Indigenous Australia
Dr Maggie Brady (Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research, Australian National University)
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
Language, identity and settlement: exploring
language maintenance and settlement issues
among Sudanese refugees in regional Australia
Dr Aniko Hatoss, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
South African social innovation and
community development – strategies and
perspectives for Australia? - Ms Anthea
FAWCETT, Director, Southern Exchange
Education, University of Southern Queensland
Colonial anthropology or the anthropology of
modernity? Max Gluckman’s vision of southern
African society, 1939–1947 Dr 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]
Session 4 [Seminar Room]
Mediatised public crisis and the racialisation
of African youth in Australia Joel Windle,
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University
African Small business in Victoria - Mr Abdiwahid
Hassan, School of Accounting and Finance, Victoria
University
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
Digital Disaster Recovery Planning for SubSaharan African Countries - A. Aden Ibrahim, Somali
Cultural
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, Murdoch University
Australian Miners in Africa: Some dot points and
research questions – Dr David Lucas, Australian
National University
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
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
2.30-3.00pm
AMES Social Enterprises – Providing
Pathways for African Migrants
Cath Scarth, General Manager Community and
Policy, Adult Multicultural Education Services
(AMES)
Afternoon Tea
3.00-3.45pm
Session 5 [Village Roadshow Theatrette]
Session 6 [Seminar Room]
Diasporic Sensibility - Kirk Zwangobani,
University of Canberra
Collecting Then and Now: Recent African
Acquisitions at The South Australian Museum - Dr
Tabawebbula J Kivubiro, Margaret Trowell School of
Fine & Industrial Arts, Makerere University Kampala,
Uganda
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,
Australian National University
‘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 Great Zimbabwe University
Cape Flats Smile – Ismail Larney, TAFE Teacher,
Dental Prosthetist, TAFENSW
3.45-4.00pm
4.00-5.00pm
Break
Focus Panel – SUSTAINABILITY
Chair: Dr Christian Kull, Monash University
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 Programs University of Melbourne
Dr Haripriya Rangan – Monash University
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, Murdoch University
6.00-8.00pm
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual General Meeting
Seminar Room 1
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
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, Monash University
Development Co-operation, Crisis Management Vs EU Visibility in Africa – Dr Patrick Kimunguyi –
Monash University
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, RMIT University
The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping: the experience of MONUC – Mr Jim Terrie, Independent
Consultant (former Senior Analyst – International Crisis Group Africa)
10.3011.00am
11.00am12.00pm
Morning Tea
Session 8 – Village Roadshow Theatrette
National Identity and the Visual Arts, Professor Bernard Hoffert, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Art
and Design, Monash University
Art and Democracy in South Africa – A Southern Perspective - Dr Kevin Murray, Faculty of Art &
Design, Monash University.
‘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
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
Patrick McAllister, Anthropology Programme Director, University of Canterbury
Justice for the Oromo People – Mr Hailu Goche, RMIT University
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, Monash University and 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….
Mr Heritier 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