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Don’t forget to add an African Studies course to your schedule next semester! The African Studies Spring 2019 Course List is now live. This semester promises to enlighten with 40 courses overall, including 3 Afro-American …

Ainehi Edoro is a new Assistant Professor at UW-Madison in the fields of African Cultural Studies and English. Edoro teaches and conducts research on African literature, political theory, and literature in social media. She is …

UW-Madison’s African Cultural Studies Students Association is currently accepting proposals for their conference on April 11, 2019 titled, “Futuring Africa.” Description: What do you envision when prompted to imagine “the future” of Africa? Is the future …

COURSE DESCRIPTION  Internationalizing education means both education internationalizing our thinking and the ways we perceive the world, and internationalizing the field of education. The course will introduce students to various educational systems around the world, …

Workshop Overview  The first African Humanities Initiative Workshop, Addis 2019, will be held at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa in January. Hosted by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) in collaboration with …

Applications for the 2019-2020 Boren Awards currently being accepted! Complete details can be found at http://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/boren/ Boren Scholarships (for undergraduates) provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world …

Join 14 other Badgers on this fully-funded summer program to Gaborone, Botswana! Led by UW Professor Neil Kodesh, Global Gateway is a unique, engaging experience designed specially for first- and second-year UW students. Applications are …

Later this month, the 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1957 with the goal of cultivating a better understanding …

Russ Feingold, former U.S. Senator and Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region and the Congo-Kinshasa, is on campus for the 2018 fall semester, serving as African Studies’ Human Rights Visiting Professor of Practice. …

The 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The University of Wisconsin is highly represented. See the full program here. UNIVERSITY OF …