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Course Spotlight: Africa + The Internet

Posted on June 23, 2017

Course Description Africa, the continent with the world’s most concentrated poverty, has been the highest adopter of mobile technology for the past 10 years. Africa’s Internet, though hardly reliable, is the world’s primary “mobile first” …

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Course Spotlight: Sin and Laughter: Transgressive Arts from Southern Africa to the Middle East

Posted on May 15, 2017

Course Description What’s the best Arab sitcom? How have African ideas of acceptable and unacceptable humor evolved over the history of cosmopolitanism? Where do we find evidence of religious dogma in the tradition of creative …

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Course Spotlight: Curatorial Studies Exhibition Practice

Posted on April 3, 2017

Course Description This course will engage students in all aspects of the preparation of an exhibition for the Chazen Museum of Art or other exhibition spaces on campus. Students will help conceptualize the exhibition and …

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Course Spotlight: African Art and Architecture

Posted on March 10, 2017

Course Description This course examines the rich heritage of African arts and architecture as they shape and have been shaped by the histories and cultural values (social, political, religious, philosophical, and aesthetic) of African peoples, …

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Course Spotlight: Environmental Studies 402 – Global Indigeneity and Sustainability

Posted on December 14, 2016

Course Description Featuring prominent international faculty and researchers from the UW-Madison and other research universities and world. Indigenous leaders and researchers offering weekly presentations about their work with indigenous / aboriginal / native / campesino …

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Course Spotlight: African 300 – Contemporary Arabic Literature and Cinema

Posted on December 12, 2016

Course Description This course is an introduction of the most significant topics of contemporary Arabic literature and cinema: the legacies of colonialism, repressive nature of post-independence regimes, discourses on nationalism, religion v. secularization, gender relations, …

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Course Spotlight: Journalism 822 – Theories of International Communication

Posted on November 17, 2016

Course Description This seminar focuses on the major theories of international communication, paying closest attention to “global” media technologies, institutions, and practices. Questions that we will explore: How do we define the “nation,” vs. the …

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Course Spotlight: African 405 – Nollywood

Posted on November 17, 2016

Course Description Nollywood is the name that Nigerian filmmakers and audiences have adopted for a relatively new film industry, which began in the early 1990s with the emergence of “video films”—that is, feature-length films shot …

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Course Spotlight: History 201 – The Historians Craft – History of Humanitarianism

Posted on November 17, 2016

Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of …

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Course Spotlight: The African Postcolony

Posted on November 15, 2016

Course Description This course will explore the history, theory and ethnography of the African postcolony. What global connections, circuits and migrations have shaped African worlds in the aftermath of empire? What forms of political and …

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