BUMIDOM: The French Dream? Caribbean Migration in Literature and Culture
Seminar
In the post-war era, and following departmentalization in 1947, huge waves of migrants from Guadeloupe and Martinique arrived in metropolitan France to strengthen the work force and rebuild infrastructure which had been damaged during World War Two. From 1962 to 1983, 160,000 people migrated…
Gendering ‘Hospitality’: Volunteer Labour and (Im)Mobile Men
Seminar
‘This is free, it’s for everyone.’ Such is the claim that underpins a whole range of food distribution practices, which are more and more structurally embedded in our cities as levels of poverty soar and forces of demographic transformation such as the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ tear into the…
Déportées, exploitées, déshumanisées: La condition féminine dans les camps de concentration nazis
Seminar
Pour des motifs aussi bien pseudo-scientifiques que politiques, les femmes ont été particulièrement menacées par le régime nazi à partir de l’ouverture du camp de Ravensbrück en 1939. Déportées de force depuis toute l’Europe, elles sont immédiatement condamnées à mort ou mises au travail forcé.…
Cambodia’s “Wandering Souls”: Migratory Labour and the Promise of Connection
Seminar
In this essay I explore the intersecting themes of gender, labour and migration in Rithy Panh’s documentary film, La Terre des âmes errantes (2000), which follows the migrant workers who laid Cambodia’s fibre optic cables in the late 1990s. Evocative of the Khmer Rouge forced displacement and…
Communication in Health Care and the Impact of COVID-19
Webinar/Online
Skilled communication is critical for delivering safe, effective care. Yet perhaps at no other time in our living memories has communication in healthcare been so important yet so challenging. In this period of uncertainty due to an unprecedented global pandemic, consistent and effective public…
Effective Communication saves lives: The work of the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH)
Webinar/Online
Join a panel of experts from across ANU to find out how we are addressing communication issues in health care. In Australia alone it is estimated that 500,000 people per year are harmed by the hospitals they go to for help, that is, they suffer from an avoidable or preventable critical…
Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, 7th Conference
Conference
Due to the situation with coronavirus and uncertainties regarding international travel in the next few months the SHLP 2020 committee has regretfully decided that the best course of action is to postpone the conference. This decision is also partly influenced by the decision at ANU to postpone…