On October 4, 2013, Russ Feingold, the United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, visited the UW-Madison campus to draw on the expertise of …
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African Studies Program’s weekly lecture series turns 40.
“Pressure free…informal, interdisciplinary get-togethers”–this is what the African Studies community on campus needed to address a lack of communication between campus Africanists, according to faculty and graduate students in the early 1970s. So to encourage …
Call for Applications: Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards and Fellowships
The competition for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships and awards at UW-Madison is now open. The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2013 and Academic Year …
From the UW News Desk: Scott Straus helps government officials understand, prevent genocide
The unthinkable is Scott Straus’ stock-in-trade. The barbarity and righteous conceit that spawns genocide is his research focus, and Straus, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is using his expertise to help …
Transition to New Site
The African Studies Program is transitioning to a new website. Please excuse us as we make our updates over the holiday weekend.