San Diego State University is hosting a conference, “Coming to Terms with Apartheid: History, Resistance, Legacy” on May 1-4, 2020. The symposium will examine the history and legacy of apartheid from different vantage points including …
Year: 2019
Welcome Back from African Studies
Welcome back to campus, everyone! We hope you all had a great summer. Here in African Studies, we spent our summer hosting the 2019 cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows. We enjoyed getting to know this …
Concert and Workshop with Musician and Activist Ezé Wendtoin
The German and Dutch Graduate Student Association would like to invite you to join them in welcoming Ezé Wendtoin , winner of the 2015 “Afrika-Sonderpreis,” to campus this September. Wendtoin is from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso …
WEB DEVELOPER: AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
The African Literature Association seeks a part-time webmaster to maintain the organization’s online presence and several systems related to membership database management, communication, and annual conference preparations. Many of these responsibilities run all year long, …
CALL FOR PAPERS: LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES
The 23rd Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages is scheduled for April 17-19, 2020, on “2020 Vision: LCTL’s Collective Mission for the next Decade.” Proposals are solicited for individual papers, colloquia, …
CALL FOR PAPERS: RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT
The Stanford University Center for African Studies will be hosting a conference on March 6-7, 2020 about Religion and Development in Africa, and are seeking papers to be presented at that conference. Application from early-career …
New and Now Open: Peace Corps in Kenya
Peace Corps is returning to Kenya! The program closed in 2014, but the office remained in place while the government of Kenya and the Peace Corps office worked on details for reopening. Peace Corps’ efforts …
UW-Madison Peace Corps Office Open for Fall 2019
The Peace Corps office is open for the year, and they have a new office! You can find the Campus Peace Corps Recruiter, Kate Schachter, at 200B Bascom Hall.Walk-in Advising hours will be as follows …
African Studies Program to Host Second Annual Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture
The African Studies will host the second annual Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture this Fall, honoring the pioneering historian of Africa who passed away two years ago. The lecture will open the African Studies Program’s weekly …
The African Studies Program welcomes incoming Assistant Director Dorothy Mayne
Welcome, Dorothy! The African Studies Program is pleased to welcome new Assistant Director Dorothy Mayne. Dorothy will join us from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she recently completed her Ph.D. in Education …