Course Description This seminar asks how Islam is represented in literature and other arts. How have people in Africa and the Middle East depicted, discussed, and written systems of belief? Why is there such a …
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Tripp receives ASA Public Service Award
African Studies faculty member and Professor Aili Tripp has received the 2014 African Studies Association (ASA) Public Service Award. According to the ASA, this award honors long-standing contributors to the ASA mission and to African …
ASP faculty Cynthia Haq honored
African Studies Program faculty member Cynthia Haq has earned the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. Haq is a faculty member at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She was presented …
Course Spotlight: African Screen Media
Course Description Screens have been the sources of news and narrative, as well as the venues for pedagogy and revolution in Africa since the invention of the motion picture. Today, Africa is the home of …
Course Spotlight: Material Culture, Magic and the Senses in Equatorial Africa
Course Description Reflecting a broader change in African studies, exciting new work in Equatorial Africa is looking at the rise of new moral and sensual imaginations. In countries where poverty, ethnic strife and lack of …
Course Spotlight: Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Course Description How does one grow up to find happiness? The bildungsroman, or plot of “coming to age,” is a genre of the Western novel that arose in the late 18th century to answer precisely …
Course Spotlight: The Global African City
Course Description People typically think of globalization as a twenty-first century phenomenon, yet African cities have been global hubs of culture, ideas, and economic exchange for centuries. This course invites students to explore the global …
ASP faculty respond to Ebola
African Studies Program faculty Gregg Mitman and Tony Goldberg appear in a short video on the University of Wisconsin-Madison homepage in response to ongoing, interdisciplinary efforts at UW-Madison in response to Ebola. Gregg Mitman is …
Intern with CARITAS in Uganda this Spring/Summer
The International Internship Program is accepting applications for Spring and Summer 2015 internship opportunities in Uganda. CARITAS For Children is a Milwaukee based organization that provides financial assistance for the health, education and general welfare …
Guide to African Commemorative Textiles
Senior Librarian and African Studies Bibliographer Emilie Songolo presents a newly published Libguide for those interested in African commemorative textiles. The guide serves as a companion to the growing collection of textiles currently be digitized …