29th AFSAAP conference

2006

Macquarie University

Africa: Reconstruction and Renaissance

Conference Program

Thursday 21st September

Session 1 - stream A. Chair: Sue Wills

Noah Bassil	Dept Politics & Int Relations Macquarie Univ	Darfur: Origins of the Conflict
Wendy Levy	Australian National Univ	Sudanese - Australian Relations

Session 1 - stream B. Chair: Deryck Shreuder

David Dorward	Institute of African Research, La Trobe Univ	Debt Relief and Trade
Christopher La Monica	Victoria Univ of Wellington	African Political Thought and International Relations Theory

Session 2 - stream A. Chair: Helen Ware
 

Cherry Gertzel	Curtin University	No Snow in Kilimanjaro; no glaciers on the Ruwenzories; and Lake Victoria's water level is the lowest in 50 years: Does the history help us understand the costs of "development"?
Farid Farid	UWS	Culture in Africa

Session 2 - stream B. Chair: Sally Totman

Geoffrey Hawker	Dept Politics and Int Relations	Parliament in South Africa
Patrick McAllister	Canterbury Univ NZ	Ubuntu in South Africa

Session 3 - stream A. Chair: Ian Tregenza
 

Alan Thorold	Univ Melbourne	The Revival of Sufism in Malawi
Goolam Vahed	Dept History Univ of Kwa-Zulu Natal	The Beard versus the Bards A 21st Century Story of Travelling Cartoon and Protests

 Session 3 - stream B. Chair: Stephanie Lawson

Josh Abdurahman	Sydney	The Africa-Australia Council : A Progress Report
Temesgen Kifle	University of Queensland	The Gender Wage Gap in Eritea

Session 4 - stream A. Chair: Noah Bassil
 

Kathryn Sturman	Dept Politics and Int Relations, Macquarie University	‘New growth on deep roots?’ Pan-Africanist precedents for the AU’s interventionism
Patrick Kimunguyi	University of Melbourne	Changing Paradigms or Symbolic Rhetoric? Perspectives on the EU Development Policy

Session 4 - stream B. Chair: Cherry Gertzel

Fernanda Claudio	Univ QLD	Violence and Public Health in Zimbabwe
Max Kelly	Deakin Univ	Crisis and Development in Southern Africa

Friday 22 September

Session 1 - stream A. Chair: Andrew Mack
 

Ruth Jackson	Deakin Univ	Safe Motherhood in Ethiopia
Annie Stopford	UNSW	Trans Global Families: The Application of African ethical and conceptual systems to African/Western relationships and families

 Session 1 - stream B. Chair: David Lucas

Namuunda Mutombo	ANU	Sources of respondent resistance in HIV voluntary counseling and testing services (VCT) research in Zambia
Margaret O'Callaghan	Canberra	Moving Aside the Shield of Political Correctness

Session 2 - stream A. Chair: David Lucas

Christine Khoza	ANU	The role of parental education by gender in explaining secondary education attainment of their children
Dr Apollo Nsubuga - Kyobe	La Trobe University	Tensions in African - Australian Families: and what appears to connect with Family Court Endevours
Christine Cheater	Univ Newcastle	'Peace is every child's right': The Machel Report

Session 2 - stream B. Chair: Cherry Gertzel

Clare Buswell	Flinders	What has GAD Got to Do with Sex? Women, Postmodernism and Development
Liz Dimock	La Trobe Univ	The politicatisation of women at the Cape in the closing years of the nineteenth century...the Molteno, Solomon and Schreiner families

Session 3 - stream A. Chair: Fernanda Claudio
 

Yasuo Mizobe	Ritsumeikan Univ Japan	A Survey of Gold Coast Newspapers in the latter Half of the 19th Cent
Mucha Musemwa	Dept History Univ South Africa	The Farmer-Miners Dispute … Colonial Zimbabwe 1903-50

Session 3 - stream B. Chair: Cherry Gertzel

Panel:	The Late Mbeki Period
Discussants:	Geoffrey Hawker, Eric Louw, Kathryn Sturman

Session 4 - stream A. Chair: Christine Cheater
 

Lucy Hobgood-Brown	Univ of NSW	"Brand Africa"
Otieno Kisiara	Nazareth College, Rochester New York	Integrating refugee information networks in resettlement cultural orientation programs
Mutuota	Dept of Education	Nurturing democracy in Kenya

Session 4 - stream B. Chair: Lloyd Cox

Thomas Le Grand	University of Montreal, Canada	Consensual Unions in Burkina Faso: Levels, Trends and Determinants
David Lucas	Demography Aust National Univ	Female genital mutilation a critique of a WHO study