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Asynchronous ACTFL OPI Familiarization Workshop hosted by the UF Center for European Studies, March 1-31, 2023

Posted on February 20, 2023

The UF Center for European Studies will host an asynchronous ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Familiarization workshop from March 1-March 31.  If you would like to participate in this professional development workshop, please complete the …

Posted in Alumni, Conferences, Events, Faculty, Languages, Outreach

Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa Seminar

Posted on January 26, 2023

  Time: 2:00 pm GMT. Check your local time here. Abstract: In 1953, three Ugandans set out in a Peugeot station wagon on a two-month mission trip across Africa. All were recent converts to Baha’ism, …

Posted in Alumni, Conferences

Africa in Our Lives: Edward L. Powe

Posted on January 25, 2016

While Edward Powe’s interest in Africa and the tropical world dates back to his graduate studies, creative endeavors like the development of his NGO and promotion of a Zulu board game suggest his interest does …

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SUMMER STORIES: Field Research with A Toddler

Posted on August 12, 2015

Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Bethany Wilinski shares her experiences conducting field research for the first time with her …

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SUMMER STORIES: Beekeeping in Comoros

Posted on August 4, 2015

Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Ellen Geisler is currently working as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Comoros, a …

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Assistant secretary of state visits UW-Madison, PEOPLE students

Posted on March 25, 2014

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, will visit Madison on Friday, March 28 for a series of events including a conversation with middle- and high school students involved in the PEOPLE …

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Wisconsin State Journal interviews Scheub

Posted on December 30, 2013

Shortly after giving his last lecture on December 13, 2013, Harold Scheub sits down with the Wisconsin State Journal to discuss his early travels to Africa, challenges and rewards of recording oral stories in Southern …

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Professor Scheub’s love of stories featured in ‘Narratively on Campus’

Posted on April 12, 2013

Harold Scheub, professor of African Languages and Literature, sat down for a phone interview with former student Tim McDonnell, an environment reporter for Mother Jones magazine. Included are sound clips featuring a young Scheub introducing …

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From On Wisconsin: African Studies faculty affiliate Richard Keller counts heat wave deaths

Posted on December 10, 2012

Blizzards are bad. Hurricanes are worse. But when it comes to killing power, no weather packs the punch of a heat wave, according to the numbers that Richard Keller has crunched. Read more.

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Ambassador John Hirsch meets with African Studies graduate students

Posted on October 5, 2012

John L. Hirsch (History PhD’65) met with graduate students from History, Political Science, Geography, and Development Studies to discuss their research topics. As a former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone in the 1990s and having …

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