Thanksgiving is certainly not the only celebration of the harvest and thanks around the world. The Homowo Festival is a month long celebration of the harvest mainly celebrated by the Ga people in the Greater …
Month: November 2016
IU Graduate Symposium – Call for Proposals
Indiana University’s Graduate Students in African Studies presents its Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium: “Global Africa: Dynamic and Connective Scholarship.” February 24 – 25, 2017. Featuring as keynote: Dr. Sean Jacobs Associate, Professor of International Affairs, The …
Day in Africa – Call for Presenters
The Africa Studies Program is hosting our annual DAY IN AFRICA, a high school outreach program where Wisconsin students explore a variety of Africa-related topics in sessions led by UW-Madison faculty, students, and staff. We …
Course Spotlight: Journalism 822 – Theories of International Communication
Course Description This seminar focuses on the major theories of international communication, paying closest attention to “global” media technologies, institutions, and practices. Questions that we will explore: How do we define the “nation,” vs. the …
Course Spotlight: African 405 – Nollywood
Course Description Nollywood is the name that Nigerian filmmakers and audiences have adopted for a relatively new film industry, which began in the early 1990s with the emergence of “video films”—that is, feature-length films shot …
Course Spotlight: History 201 – The Historians Craft – History of Humanitarianism
Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of …
Course Spotlight: The African Postcolony
Course Description This course will explore the history, theory and ethnography of the African postcolony. What global connections, circuits and migrations have shaped African worlds in the aftermath of empire? What forms of political and …
Africa in Our Lives: Tess Kolker
Tess Kolker is a current UW Junior studying for the year in Morocco. Field of Study: International Studies, Political Studies Hometown: Chatham, NJ What brought you to UW- Madison? I visited Madison for the first …
4 Elections in Africa You Should Know About
With the upcoming U.S. elections dominating the airwaves, here are four elections in Ghana, Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire and the DRC you may not know about, but you should. Ghana Ghana was the first African country …