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Applications have opened for the 2022 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program based at the University of Melbourne.
One of seven Atlantic Fellows hubs around the world, the Melbourne hub focuses on Indigenous-led social equity. Hubs in the USA, Asia, Africa and the UK focus on racial, health, brain health and economic equity.
The opportunity involves intensive study and social change project work throughout 2022, followed by lifelong global fellowship. The fellowship year involves 38 days of program participation and the choice to complete either a Master or Graduate Certificate in Social Change Leadership through the University of Melbourne. The course is fully funded and program participation is supported with a stipend.
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This was one of the contexts to the virtual dialogue
September Amnesia, hosted by the Foundation on Monday 26 April. Facilitated by Kneo Mokgopa and framed as an intergenerational conversation, not surprisingly the question of reckoning became almost a sub-text to the discussion. Why does South Africa still not know who ordered the assassination of African National Congress representative in Paris, Dulcie September, in 1988? Why are archives related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation of her murder still not accessible to the public? Why only now is the French government considering reopening the official investigation into her murder?
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