Events History

The following listings are records of past events imported as such because of the changes made during the website transition from Cals WordPress to WiscWeb WordPress.

“WHEN WOMEN WEAR SLACKS” WITH JACQUELINE-BETHEL MOUGOUÈ | TOPIC: “When Women Wear Slacks”: Gender and Embodied Nationalism in Africa | DATE: Thursday, February 25, 2021 | TIME: 12-1:30P | Off-campus

Global Conversations: Feeding the World | January 22, 2021 @ 1:30 pm | 13:30:00-06:00

BOOK TALK WITH JACQUELINE-BETHEL MOUGOUE | New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies | Please join Tiffany M. Florvil, Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katherine M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué | January 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Necropoetics, African Spaces, and ‘le grantécrivain noir’ | November 13, 2020 @ 3:00 pm | A Conference by Oana Panaïté (Indiana University – Bloomington) | Department of French & Italian | Friday November 13, 2020 3:00 pm | UW

WASHINGTON MANDELA FELLOWS – FOLLOW UP ON COMMUNITY PROJECTS | September 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am | ASP

Webinar Series: Decolonising Aid: An Intimate Conversation with Women Activists in the Global South | August 25, 2020 @ 2:00 pm | Adeso | Off-campus

The African Centre for the Study of the United States invites you to their upcoming webinar: Global Health in the Time of Corona | Nicholas Uchechukwu Asoga | Oncemore Mbeve | Peggy Honoré  | August 6, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm |

The United States and Africa: Perception and Policy | Carnegie Endowment |Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Aaron David Miller | August 5, 2020 @ 9:45 am – 10:45 am | Off-campus

Former YALI Mandela Washington Fellows’ Community Efforts in Africa | May 7, 2020 @ 8:30 am | ASP

CAREER CONVERSATION WITH JACOB KUSHNER | April 23, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | ASP

GLOBAL DAY 2020 | “HEARTH:  Health, Ecosystems and Agriculture for Resilient and Thriving Societies.” | April 22, 2020 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | UW

BUILDING AND SUSTAINING STRONG BOARDS OF DIRECTORS FOR STRONG ORGANIZATIONS  | April 9, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm | UW

CANCELED: Reenchanting Teju Olaniyan | April 9, 2020 all-day | ACS 

Online Fulbright US Student Program Information Session | March 31, 2020 @ 4:00 pm | UW  

Kola Hour | March 12, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | && thereafter | ACS

LECTURE: Dr. Alebachew Kemisso Haybano |

March 9, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | A New Era? The Promises of Ethiopia’s New Policy for Inclusion of Refugees into National Education System and Challenges of Local Implementation | Alebachew Kemisso Haybano | ASP

 

7th AFRICAID INTERNATIONA WOMEN’S DAY: BUILDING AN EQUAL WORLD TOGETHER | International Women’s Day 2020 | Theme: “An Equal World is an Enabled World” | Hashtag: #Each4Equal | March 7, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm | ASP

 

Comparative Politics Colloquium | Beyond State Capacity: The Electoral Logics of Land Formalization in Kenya | March 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm | UW

 

International Women’s Day | March 3, 2020 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | UW

 

Peace Corps Week 2020 | March 3, 2020 – March 7, 2020 all-day | Off-campus

 

Eclipsed | March 3, 2020 – March 29, 2020 all-day | Off-campus 

Fulbright US Student Program (FUSP) Information Session | March 2, 2020 @ 3:00 pm | UW

 

SAWYER SEMINAR: INTERROGATING THE PLANTATIONOCENE | February 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm | UW

 

Intern in Africa | February 13, 2020 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | UW

 

Whose Food, Whose Land?: A Conversation on Global Food Sovereignty | Mpumelelo Ncwadi, Professor Mariaelena Huambachano, Professor Monica White, Dr. Sarah Lloyd, Dan Cornelius | November 12, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm | UW

 

Eric Gitari: Litigating LGBTQI+ Issues in Kenya | Eric Gitari | October 31, 2019 @ 3:00 pm | ASP

 

The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria | Joshua Cole | October 31, 2019 @ 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm | UW

 

TRAVELING MASCULINITIES: INCANDESCENT COMMUNICATIONS, THE BAHÁ’Í FAITH, AND TRANSCONTINENTAL NETWORKS IN AFRICA |  Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué | October 31, 2019 @ 12:20 pm – 1:20 pm | ASP

 

Jacob Kushner: Reporting on Haiti 10 Years After the Quake | October 30, 2019 @ 5:30 pm | UW

 

Merci, mais non merci: Black Ecology in a Creole Context | Bénédicte Boisseron | February 13, 2020 @ 4:30 pm | UW

 

The following events are only in ASP or with ASP faculty/grads:

 

Africa Resource Fair | November 25, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

 

Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture: Dr. Henry J. Drewal | November 13, 2019 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

 

AFRICANISTS AT WORK: LARA VOJNOV | September 30, 2019 @ 12:00 pm

 

Madison for Malawi Symposium | September 27, 2019 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Freedom, Art, and Production: Ibrahim Mahama | September 27, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

 

Eze Wendtoin: Interactive Music Workshops | September 20, 2019 @ 9:55 am – 12:55 am

 

Second Annual Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture | September 11, 2019 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

YALI Expert Exchange: Civil Society and Governance | Katie Dean (Moderator), Yvette Craig, Michael Wagner, Christina Ngoy Van Hooreweghe, Ass Momar Lo, Nancy Kendall (Moderator), Henry Sanders J., Matthew Braunginn, Mpho Lucricia Seipubi, Ricky Simasiku | July 26, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
AFRICA AT NOON FALL 2019 WELCOME EVENT | September 4, 2019 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm

YALI Expert Exchange: Public Management and Health | Selah Agaba (Moderator), Susan Gold, Lisa Peyton-Caire, Alma-Nalisha Anele Cele, Idris Olasunmbo Ola, Chong Moua (Moderator), Danielle Yancey, Mai See Thao, Juliana Temitope Mathew Mustapha, Chimba Sanga | July 18, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

YALI Expert Exchange: Public Resource Management | Kwasi Obeng (Moderator), Brad Paul, Silas Njacheun Ngahane, Gaoussou Sylla, Linda Vakunta (Moderator), John Nichols, Katelyn Ferral, Awo Abdi Daher, Alfred Akrofi Ocansey | July 12, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Conservation Leadership in Africa: Perspectives from DRC, Zambia, and Côte d’Ivoire | July 11, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

YALI Expert Exchange: Public Resource Management | Lisa Naughton (Moderator), Adrian Treves, Gloria Mwenge Bitomwa, Kévin Agnimel Gnagne, Patience Chungu, Samba Baldeh (Moderator), Mpoli Simwanza-Johnson, Chitani Ndisale, Semira Hassen Ebrahim, Ako Eyo Oku | July 11, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

YALI Global Health Tuesdays | July 2, 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm

Heurts poétiques en langue sino-française : Les textes migrants de Shan Sa et François Cheng 4:oo pm le 2 mai à la Maison Française 633 N. Frances Street

Expanding Language-Related Undergraduate Research Opportunities in the Humanities and Social Sciences | April 26, 2019 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Swarm to Table: Bugs and Brews Tasting Event | April 25, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

INSECTS FOR FOOD, FEED, AND HEALTH: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | April 25, 2019 @ 4:00 pm | July 11, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

YALI Expert Exchange: Public Management and Health | Girma Tefera, Brenda Allen Kawala, Fati Mahmoud Wattigi, Neil Kodesh (Moderator), Janis Tupesis, Megan Schultz, Helena Hailu Fantaye, Mohammed Kromah Dunbar | July 19, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Power of the Crown Art Exhibition by Rita M. Benissan | April 15, 2019 – April 19, 2019 all-day

Career Conversations with Farha Tahir | April 4, 2019 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am

A Human Right to Health: From Public Health to Constitutional Litigation | March 6, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

A Human Right to Health: From Public Health to Constitutional Litigation | February 26, 2019 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Project 1808 Benefit Gala | December 3, 2018 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

ASA UW-Madison Happy Hour Event | November 30, 2018 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Careers in African Studies: Meet Jacob Kushner | November 16, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Hemorrhagic Fevers: A Scientific and Cultural Perspective on Outbreaks | November 28, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Symposium in Honor of Michael Schatzberg | October 13, 2018 all-day

Lecture: Performance Practices in South Africa and Beyond | September 27, 2018 @ 4:30 pm

The First Annual Jan Vansina Lecture | September 21, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – September 22, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Janna Patterson: Sustainable Development Goals & Children’s Health | September 20, 2018 @ 7:30 am

 

YALI Global Health Tuesdays: Improving Access to Care | July 24, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

 

YALI Expert Exchange: Diversity, Inclusion & Vulnerable Populations | July 24, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

YALI Global Health Tuesdays: Promoting Wellbeing | July 17, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
YALI Expert Exchange: Global Health & Wellness | July 17, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

 

YALI Global Health Tuesdays: Forging New Solutions for Health | July 10, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
YALI Expert Exchange: Public & Private Partnerships | July 10, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
YALI Expert Exchange: Human Rights | July 6, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Immigration in the Trump Era | July 5, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
YALI Expert Exchange: Local to Global Governance | June 26, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Day in Africa | April 19, 2018 all-day

 

The Second Half-Century of African Languages & Culture Scholarship and Instruction at UW-Madison | April 13, 2018 @ 9:00 am

 

Panel Discussion + Showing of “Makala” Documentary | April 9, 2018 @ 8:15 pm

 

Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts and Actions | April 6, 2018 – April 7, 2018 all-day

 

Thinking with Piezas: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic | March 13, 2018 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

 

Death, Culture & Coffee: Honoring Ancestors in Madison | March 1, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

 

African Cultural Night | February 23, 2018 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

 

CONFERENCE: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting | February 9, 2018 – February 10, 2018 all-day

 

Undergraduate Career Discussion with Owen Ullmann | February 8, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

 

Women’s Rights Reform in Algeria: Why the Maghreb Differs from the Middle East |

February 5, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

EDITOR’S BRUNCH: Publishing in the Field of African Studies | January 31, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

 

Go Abroad This Summer |

 

Joseph Tonda: Le sexe comme puissance despotique dans Afrique néolibérale | November 13, 2017 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

 

The Past, Present, and Future of South Africa’s Rural Economy | November 9, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide: Carl Wilkens – The American Who Stayed Behind | October 29, 2017 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

 

Africanists at Work | October 20, 2017 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Christina Sharpe: Black. Still. Life | October 19, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

African Lives in China: A Live Recording of the Sinica Podcast | September 28, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Water, Women and Fisheries | September 26, 2017 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 p

DAY IN AFRICA | April 24, 2017 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

CONFERENCE: Nostalgia and Memory in Postcolonial Africa | April 12, 2017 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

INFO SESSION: Intern in Africa | February 7, 2017 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

LECTURE: Careers in International Journalism, Non-Profits and NGOs | April 26, 2016 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Mandela Washington Fellows Mixer | July 13, 2016 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

LECTURE: Africa Matters | July 15, 2016 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

LECTURE: Ignite Talks by Mandela Washington Fellows | July 18, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

SYMPOSIUM: Lusophone Transnational Cinema | April 14, 2016 – April 15, 2016 all-day

LECTURE: Le Président | March 31, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

Standstill: A film by Majdi El-Omari | March 29, 2016 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Meet African Studies: An Undergraduate Event | December 9, 2015 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lecture: Land Security and Election Violence in Kenya | December 9, 2015 @ 4:00 pm

Kasiya Phiri Presents African Folklore for All Ages | February 27, 2016 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Lecture: Howard French | October 22, 2015 @ 7:00 pm

Early Maritime Cultures on the East African Coast Conference | October 23, 2015 – October 24, 2015 all-day

Africa & The Environment Symposium | October 29, 2015 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Lecture: Civic Activism & Resistance in Cartoons | November 13, 2015 @ 12:00 pm

58th Annual African Studies Association Meeting | November 19, 2015 – November 22, 2015 all-day

Lecture: Spatial Development Planning in Africa | November 19, 2015 @ 3:00 pm

Lecture: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania | November 23, 2015 @ 3:30 pm

Book Talk: Lara Pawson | September 28, 2015 @ 3:30 pm

Lecture: John Higginson

Symposium: Community Solutions – Agroecology of Development in Africa | May 7, 2015 @ 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Book Talk: Jan Vansina | April 23, 2015 @ 7:00 pm

Book Talk: Clifton Conrad | April 23, 2015 @ 12:00 pm

Symposium: Community Solutions – Agroecology of Development in Africa | May 7, 2015 @ 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Book Talk: Clifton Conrad | April 23, 2015 @ 12:00 pm

 

Fish-Harnack Lecture: Obiora Okafor | April 22, 2015 @ 4:00 pm

 

Guest Lecture: Patrick Anderson Zadi Zadi | November 18, 2014 @ 4:00 pm

 

Seminar: Stephen Pierce | November 17, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

 

African Textile Exhibit | November 12, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

Book Reading & Signing: Jan Vansina | September 24, 2014 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Guest Lecture: Lynn Thomas | September 24, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

 

Special Lecture: Lessons of the Ebola Crisis | September 19, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

 

Moroccan Author: Children’s Literature Celebration | August 16, 2014 @ 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

 

Lecture: Duana Fullwiley | April 30, 2014 @ 9:00 pm

 

Film Discussion: “Without A Fight” | April 22, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

 

Film Screening: “Without a Fight” | April 21, 2014 @ 11:00 pm

 

Lecture: New Developments in African Cinema | April 21, 2014 @ 4:00 pm

 

Poetry Reading: Rachida Madani | April 14, 2014 @ 9:30 pm – 11:30 pm

 

Day in Africa 2014 | April 11, 2014 @ 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm

 

Conference: Postwar Empires in Africa | April 10, 2014 – April 12, 2014 all-day

 

Public Address: Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield | March 28, 2014 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm

 

Careers at the Department of State | March 28, 2014 @ 8:00 pm – 8:45 pm

 

Global Grit: A Film Symposium | March 6, 2014 @ 10:00 pm

 

Lecture: Commodifying the “Sacred,” Beatifying the “Abnormal”: Nollywood and the Representation of Disability | February 10, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

 

Lecture: “Potholes of Indiscipline”: Nollywood, the Nation-State, and the Right to Laugh |

February 7, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

 

Lecture: Language and Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts | February 3, 2014 @ 10:00 pm

 

Lecture: Modulations of the Sensational in Ghanaian Popular Literatures | February 3, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

 

Lecture: Third Generation African Literature as Failed Social Thought | January 31, 2014 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

 

Anthropology Job Talk: Kathleijne Koops | January 23, 2014 @ 10:00 pm

 

Anthropology Job Talk: Stacy Lindshield | January 21, 2014 @ 10:00 pm

 

Lecture: R/Evolutions: Queer Changes in the Arab World | November 22, 2013 @ 11:00 pm – November 23, 2013 @ 1:00 am

 

Lecture: Crafting an International Legal Framework to Combat Sexual Violence in Conflict | November 7, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

 

Conversation with UN Special Envoy on Sexual Violence in Conflict | November 7, 2013 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

 

Lecture: Sexual Violence in Areas of Armed Conflict | November 7, 2013 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am

 

Lecture: The African History of American Foodways | October 30, 2013 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

 

Book Signing: An American Family in Amin’s Uganda | October 30, 2013 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am

 

Conversation with Ugandan journalist Moses Walugembe | October 29, 2013 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

 

Aaron Rodgers and the Conflict Free Campus Initiative | October 8, 2013 @ 12:30 am – 1:30 am

 

Africa Fest 2013 | August 17, 2013 @ 11:00 am – August 17, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

 

Women and Democracy Around the World | August 15, 2013 – July 16, 2013 all-day

 

Liberia: 166 Years After Independence | August 2, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – August 2, 2013 @ 7:00 pm

 

Day in Africa | April 26, 2013 @ 8:30 am – 1:00 pm

 

Lecture: The Life of a Darfuri Refugee | April 21, 2013 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Lecture: Lilian Nabulime | March 13, 2013 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

 

Belonging in Africa | March 1, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

 

Lecture: Luise White | February 28, 2013 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Land Tenure Center Lecture: Deborah Brautigam | February 28, 2013 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Lecture: Peter Geschiere | February 27, 2013 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

 

Urgent Understanding: Crisis in Mali | February 19, 2013 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

 

McCoy and Young: Eclipse of Empires, Dawn of a New World Order | December 12, 2012 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Comparative Politics Colloquium: Leader selection in Ugandan community organizations | November 14, 2012 @ 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

 

Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa: Literature and the Question of Development in Mozambique | November 13, 2012 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

 

Women’s Rights and AIDS Prevention in the Republic of Congo | November 1, 2012 @ 2:30 pm – 2:30 pm

 

Lecture by Bruce Kuklick | September 11, 2012 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

 

A full list of the events we have shared on our Cals website is available here for African Studies Program staff.