Plan your summer African language study with this helpful list of domestic and international language programs. Summer 2015 domestic and international programs List of overseas African language programs that FLAS students have attended in the …
Month: December 2014
Hark receives Art Institutes’ 2015 Emily Mead Baldwin Award
African Studies Program faculty member Mary Hark has been awarded the 2015 Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts by the Arts Institute, specifically recognizing her work in Ghana with Ghanaian fellow artists. According …
Get funding to study an African language with a FLAS fellowship
The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2015 and Academic Year 2015-2016 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 13, 2015. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. …
Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar
Applications are now open for The Center for Humanities Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar “Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery.” The seminar will be led by African Studies Program faculty member Claire Wendland …
Course Spotlight: Imagining Islam
Course Description This seminar asks how Islam is represented in literature and other arts. How have people in Africa and the Middle East depicted, discussed, and written systems of belief? Why is there such a …
Tripp receives ASA Public Service Award
African Studies faculty member and Professor Aili Tripp has received the 2014 African Studies Association (ASA) Public Service Award. According to the ASA, this award honors long-standing contributors to the ASA mission and to African …