EVENTS
Join us for these special events celebrating 50 years of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
50/Forward Africa at Noon Events50/Forward African Film Series
50/Forward Conference
A Day in Africa: First Annual High School Students Conference
Africa Forward
Africana Librarians Council / CRL-CAMP 2012
50/Forward Africa at Noon Events
Wednesday, September 7, 2011Making our African Studies Program Fifty Years Ago
Jan Vansina
Professor of Emeritus, Departments of History and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Read or listen to Jan Vansina's talk
Wednesday, September 28, 2011African Studies at Wisconsin: A Half-Century Retrospective
Crawford Young
Rupert Emerson and H. Edwin Young Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Read or listen to Crawford Young's talk
Wednesday, October 5, 2011Revisiting Linkages between the UW-Madison African Studies Program and African American Studies / Art Exhibitions and Teaching from UW-Madison Union Galleries to the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Chazen) since the 1970s: The Implication of Museological Spaces for the Study of African and Afro-American Art
Freida High [Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis]
Evjue-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, October 12, 2011The Chazen’s New African Art Gallery: Ways of Showing, Ways of Knowing
Henry Drewal
Evjue-Bascom Professor, Departments of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, October 26, 2011Culture in Motion: The Bight of Benin Coast 1760 to 1860
Sandra Barnes
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, January 25, 2012Africa and World History
Joseph C. Miller
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor in the Department of History
University of Virginia
Wednesday, February 8, 2012When the Past Plays Out in the Present: A Personal Narrative of the Production of Knowledge and the UW African Studies Program
Allen Isaacman
Regents Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, February 15, 2012African Journeys
Iris Berger
Professor of History
University at Albany (State University of New York)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012African Languages and Literature at Wisconsin: Reminiscences and Reflections
Edris Makward
Professor Emeritus, Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, March 7, 2012The Future of African Studies Scholarship: Trends on the Continent
Aili Tripp
Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Gender & Women’s Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
President, African Studies Association
Wednesday, March 21, 2012Rethinking Political Identity and Citizenship Rights in Contemporary Africa
Edmund Keller
Distinguished Professor of Political Science
University of California-Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 18, 2012CANCELLED
Protest, Pain, and Place: Visual Geographies of South African Women’s Activism Against Apartheid
Kim Miller
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African Art History
Wheaton College in Massachusetts
50/Forward African Film Series
WUD Film and African Studies Present the 50/Forward African Film Series: Celebrating a Half-Century of African Studies at Wisconsin
**Schedule subject to change**
The Marquee Theater, Union South
All films begin at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
February 7: Yeelen
February 14: Tsotsi
February 21: Viva Riva
February 28: Alexandria...Why?
March 6: Saworoide (Nollywood)
March 13: Moolaadé
March 20: Pegasus
April 10: Yesterday
April 17: The Night of Truth
April 24: Frontiers/Borders
May 1: O Heroi/The Hero
May 8: The Master (Nollywood)
Films are free and open to all UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, union members, and their guests. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The African Studies Program at UW-Madison is celebrating our 50th Anniversary. Join us at 50/Forward, a grand symposium and reunion!
April 20-22, 2012
Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706
See the complete program and reserve your spot today!
First Annual Wisconsin High School Students Conference
Friday, April 20, 2012
8:30 am – 1:00pm
Memorial Union
Madison, WI 53706
Foreign Service and African Studies
Come and meet a UW alum and a Wisconsin native to find out how their paths took them from Wisconsin into the State Department Foreign Service and around the world.
Friday, April 20 at 1:30 pm
See TITU for room location
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street
Africana Librarians Council/CRL-CAMP 2012
Thursday, April 19 - Saturday, April 2012
Memorial Union
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The African Libraries Council (ALC) convenes twice a year; in the spring at a host institution, and in the fall during the annual meeting of the African Studies Association. The UW-Madison is proud to host the ALC for the first time. This meeting will coincide with 50/FORWARD 1961-2011, the symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the UW-Madison African Studies Program.
See website for more details.
