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.
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
The First Annual Jan Vansina Lecture | September 21, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – September 22, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
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
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 |
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
Fish-Harnack Lecture: Obiora Okafor | April 22, 2015 @ 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.