Join 14 other Badgers on this fully-funded summer program to Gaborone, Botswana! Led by UW Professor Neil Kodesh, Global Gateway is a unique, engaging experience designed specially for first- and second-year UW students. Applications are …
Month: November 2018
African Studies Association 2018 Conference
Later this month, the 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1957 with the goal of cultivating a better understanding …
Russ Feingold on UW-Madison Campus
Russ Feingold, former U.S. Senator and Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region and the Congo-Kinshasa, is on campus for the 2018 fall semester, serving as African Studies’ Human Rights Visiting Professor of Practice. …
African Studies Association 2018 Wisconsin Participants
The 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The University of Wisconsin is highly represented. See the full program here. UNIVERSITY OF …
Course Spotlight: Francophone Women Voices from Africa & the Middle East
COURSE DESCRIPTION This online class provides an examination of francophone women literature, principally from Africa (Malika Mokeddem from Algeria, Fatima Mernissi from Morocco, Fatou Diome from Senegal, and Werewere Liking from Cameroun), but also from …
Celebrate International Education with a Week of Special Events
International Education Week is celebrated every year during the week prior to Thanksgiving. The tradition began in November, 2000, under the support of U.S. President Bill Clinton who stated, “It is the policy of the …
Job Opening: UW-Madison Global Engagement Office Coordinator
The UW-Madison School of Education is hiring a Coordinator for its newly named Global Engagement Office. The Global Engagement Office in the School of Education was created in 2018 to promote and support globally-focused research and …
Job Opening: TA for African 277 in Spring 2019
The UW-Madison African Studies Program is seeking TA’s for African 277, an introductory survey course designed to be a multidisciplinary introduction to the cultures and history of Africa. The course is cross-listed with African Cultural Studies, …
Call for Papers: Religion & Violence in Africa
Religion and Violence in Africa: Special volume of Religions As elsewhere, in Africa religion and violence take many forms, and often intersect on many levels, from the micro to the macro. Micro forms of such intersections …
Job Opening: Researcher for Kiira Education Foundation
Kiira Education Foundation, an NGO located in Jinja, Uganda, is currently in search of someone interested in a research opportunity that would begin in January 2019 and end in March 2019. The NGO’s main focus …