Year: 2020

Questions 1: Alika Songolo is a… Knight in France Question 2: Harold Scheub walked 1,500 miles across Africa True Question 3: How many Africanist graduate students are in our community?  93 Question 4: ASP has …

The African Studies Program is recruiting Teaching Assistants for African 277: An Introductory Survey in Summer (May 26-July 19).  This interdisciplinary course is cross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and …

Question 1: Where did Africa’s first female president study? Madison Business College Question 2: What country was Linda Thomas Greenfield the ambassador of? Liberia Question 3: Which one of Crawford Young’s books won the Lubbert Prize …

COURSE DESCRIPTION  This course will examine the origins and forms of what a legal scholar once called an “odious scourge : genocide. For years, genocide mainly referred to the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews …

COURSE DESCRIPTION This eight week online course provides an overview of human rights in international politics. The course will cover the origins of human rights, the main international and regional human rights treaties, the main …

Applications are now being accepted for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) DEADLINE: June 30, 2020 at 11:59 PM EDT What is the CADFP? The CADFP is a scholar exchange program for African higher …

Register today! Requisites: None Credits: 4 Level: Intermediate Breadth: Humanities,Social Science L&S Credit Type: Counts as LAS credit (L&S)   Questions? Please contact Toni Landis, tllandis@wisc.edu

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S QUIZ:   Question 1: Which former African head of state studied at Madison Business College? Ellen Sirleaf Johnson (Liberia) Question 2: How did UW Professor of Pathobiological Sciences …

Participating area and international studies centers of the Institute for Regional and International Studies are each awarding up to $1,000 (actual award amounts vary) to the best paper/s and projects written by an undergraduate and …