COURSE DESCRIPTION Internationalizing education means both education internationalizing our thinking and the ways we perceive the world, and internationalizing the field of education. The course will introduce students to various educational systems around the world, …
Year: 2018
World’s First African Humanities Workshop to Be Held in Addis Ababa
Workshop Overview The first African Humanities Initiative Workshop, Addis 2019, will be held at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa in January. Hosted by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) in collaboration with …
Boren Scholarships for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Applications for the 2019-2020 Boren Awards currently being accepted! Complete details can be found at http://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/boren/ Boren Scholarships (for undergraduates) provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world …
Study Abroad in Botswana Fully-Funded!
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 …
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 …