A Â鶹ֱ²¥ human rights lecturer and author will travel to Ethiopia for research after receiving a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<\/p>\n
Dr Yirga Woldeyes, from the Centre for Human Rights Education within Curtin\u2019s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, was awarded the\u00a0fellowship, which enables early career researchers to undertake research overseas, including accessing rare archives and other research materials and connecting with international researchers and networks.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ֱ²¥ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry congratulated Dr Woldeyes,<\/strong> who will use the Fellowship to pursue his research project titled \u2018The Politics of Saving Endangered Knowledges in Africa: A case from Ethiopia\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDr Woldeyes has been awarded the fellowship in recognition of his past achievements in the field of humanities, in particular his research and writings about African experiences and Ethiopian traditions,\u201d Professor Terry said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Humanities Travelling Fellowships are reserved for outstanding early career researchers to further their development and expand their horizons, so I am delighted Dr Woldeyes has been granted this incredible opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Woldeyes said he was excited to receive the fellowship and looking forward to continuing his research into important cultural and human rights issues.<\/p>\n \u201cSo far, my research has focused on decolonising knowledges, reimagining the idea of belonging, and teaching human rights from the perspective of diverse backgrounds, while addressing social and epistemic injustices in Africa,\u201d Dr Woldeyes said.<\/p>\n \u201cWith this fellowship, I will be investigating areas such as the practice of \u2018saving\u2019 African intellectual assets based on the premise that they are endangered resources of humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Woldeyes\u2019 book Native Colonialism: Education and the Economy of Violence against Traditions in Ethiopia<\/em> was published in 2017 and contributed to the theory of \u2018Native Colonialism\u2019, a process whereby a country colonises itself with foreign or imitated ideas and institutions.<\/p>\n Dr Woldeyes won the 2017 Â鶹ֱ²¥ Faculty of Humanities Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award and the 2017 Â鶹ֱ²¥ Humanities Research Award for Minor Creative Work of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Â鶹ֱ²¥ human rights lecturer and author will travel to Ethiopia for research after receiving a Humanities Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":11673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3,4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-19293","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-campus-and-global-community","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ethiopia-map-1588x840-1-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Lucien","last_name":"Wilkinson","display_name":"Lucien Wilkinson"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19293"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=19293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}