The African Cultural Studies Students Association (ACSSA) at UW-Madison will hold its annual conference on April 12, 2018. This year’s conference theme, Shifting Epistemologies: Movements, Institutions and Ideas in Africa, invites participants to reflect on …
Month: December 2017
Present at this year’s DAY IN AFRICA
The Africa Studies Program is planning our annual DAY IN AFRICA, a high school outreach program where Wisconsin students visit campus to explore a variety of Africa-related topics in sessions led by UW-Madison faculty, students, and …
Earn a stipend for teachers of African less commonly taught languages
The African Studies Initiative at the Institute for Global Studies/University of Minnesota and CARLA are collaborating to offer a limited number of $500-$1250 stipends for educators of African Languages (including Arabic and Portuguese) in order …
Apply to intern at a children’s museum in South Africa this summer
Madison Children’s Museum and Play Africa are partnering to offer UW-Madison students an International Children’s Museum Internship. The selected intern will work 8-10 hours/week atthe Madison Children’s Museum in spring and fall 2018, and 40 …
Three winter graduates receive African Studies Certificate
Congratulations to Eryn Bain, Eric Feudner, and Clara Hecht, who graduated this Sunday with an African Studies Certificate. The students will join an African Studies alumni base of several thousand. In order to receive an …
African Studies celebrates the contributions of Florence Bernault
The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History at the Institut …
Study Yoruba in Nigeria this summer
The Summer 2018 Yoruba Group Project Abroad, funded by the United States Department of Education through Fulbright-Hays fellowships, will be held at the Yoruba Language Center of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. The purpose of this …
Apply to the Humanity in Action Fellowship
The Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of university students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today. The …
New student publication an outlet for students interested in international affairs
Are you interested in what’s going on in the world but don’t feel informed? Do you want to hear what your peers are talking about and express ideas of your own? You may want to …
Call for proposals: Ethnographies of interconnection in contemporary Africa
Mid- and late-stage graduate students conducting ethnographic research on African contexts (broadly defined) are invited to submit abstracts for a paper workshop focused on “Ethnographies of Interconnection,” to be held April 19-21, 2018 at Cornell …