Indiana University Graduate Students in African Studies Annual Graduate Conference African Urbanities: Mobility, Creativity, and Challenges Indiana University March 24-25th, 2023 Urbanity has both a long history and a dynamic future on the African continent. …
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ASA Graduate Student Workshop
The Emerging Scholars Network, a coordinate organization of the African Studies Association (ASA), is hosting an all-day workshop ahead of ASA’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on November 16. The workshop will focus on alternative careers …
Apply for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award applications are now open! African language FLAS Awards are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the African Studies Program to assist students in acquiring African …
Africa In Our Lives: Kimberly Rooney
Kimberly Rooney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of French and Italian, and her research focuses on representations of the School in sub-Saharan African novels written in French and the de/coloniality of this specific educational …
VIRTUAL INTENSIVE SUMMER MULTILANGUAGE SEMINAR
The African Studies Program is excited to share news of a virtual summer language opportunity. WISLI is hosting “a new FLAS-eligible online program in Summer 2021: the Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar. The Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar, developed …
FLAS Applications Now Open: Attend an Information Session or Open House
FLAS applications are now open! African language FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the African Studies Program to assist students in acquiring African language and area studies competencies. …
BU African Studies requests proposals for “Records of Africa” conference
The Boston University African Studies Center graduate conference committee is issuing a call for papers for a 2018 conference. They invite graduate students to submit abstracts for papers, presentations, or performances attending to this year’s …
Call for Applications: Graduate Project Assistantships in International Studies Administration
The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), a unit in the UW-Madison International Division, anticipates multiple openings for graduate student project assistants for the duration of the 2017-18 academic year. Project Assistants will be …
Course Spotlight: The African Postcolony
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 …
Nominations open for the Jordan Prize
Since 1969, the African Studies Program has awarded the A.C. Jordan Prize to a UW-Madison graduate student for the year’s best paper on Africa. Nomination Procedures for the 2016 competition To be considered for the …