
Oral Tradition & Pop Culture
A Festschrift symposium to honor Emeritus Professor of Humanities Harold Scheub.
Friday, October 31, 2014 at 8am
Van Hise Hall, Room 1820

Belonging in Africa
A round table discussion
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 1pm
Union South, Agriculture Room AB

Gendering and Queering the African Diaspora
A workshop series presented by the African Diaspora and Atlantic World Research Circle
Wedesdays, February 27, April 3, April 17
206 Ingraham Hall
Eclipse of Empires, Dawn of a New World Order
Albert W. McCoy and Crawford Young discuss their recent 2012 books
December 12, 2012
206 Ingraham Hall

Changing Course: Teaching African Languages at UW-Madison in the 21st Century
Friday, October 12, 2012
Register by October 5 to attend lunch
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Film-maker and video artist
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 2:30pm

Death in the Congo: Killing Patrice Lumumba
Bruce Kuklick
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 3:00pm
Soffa Lecture 2012: Protecting the Rights of the People from Abuse of Power in State Affairs: The Challenges of South Africa’s Office of the Public Protector
Thulisile Madonsela
Public Protector of South Africa
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4pm

A Day in Africa
First Annual High School Outreach Conference
April 20, 2012
Memorial Union

Ending Deadly Conflicts in Africa
Dr. John Hirsch
Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Co-sponsored with the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations

Look Look Listen Listen: Celebrating the Arts of Ghana
Fall/Winter 2011
Multiple exhibitions and events

Tenure Security in Slums: A Gendered Perspective from South Africa
Kamna Patel
Visiting Researcher, Center for Research on Gender and Women
International Development, University of Birmingham (UK)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
3:30 pm, Sterling Hall 3401

Territorializing Ethnicity: Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya
Gunther Schlee
Thursday, January 26, 2012
3:30 P.M.
5230 Social Sciences Building

Film Screening: A Road From Lubumbashi
Union South/The Marquee
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

What the Library Can Do For You!
Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol Songolo
Bibliographer for African Studies, Social Sciences, and Francophone Studies
Thursday, October 6, 2011 and Thursday, October 13, 2011

France and Africa: A Long Way to Independence
Stephen Smith
Visiting Professor at Duke University and former Africa editor of Le Monde
Thursday, February 24, 2011

National Theatre of London’s Fela!
Sundance Cinemas
January 31 and February 5, 2011

The Peace Corps and Africa
A conference to honor fifty years of volunteer service and asses the impacts of the Peace Corps in Africa
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 24–26, 2011

Teaching Through Sports: How to Use International Sporting Events to Score Big with Students
A Workshop for Educators and Athletic Coaches
University of Wisconsin-Madison
July 8, 2010

Calabash World Cup Kick-Off
Celebrate Africa’s first World Cup with a series of events in Madison’s Dungeon-Monroe neighborhood. Fun for the whole family!
June 11, 2010

The Evolution of Warfare in Independent Africa
William Reno, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
April 28, 2010

Bad Surroundings and Beyond: The Eye of the Storm and Unfinished Realities of Northern Uganda
Sverker Finnstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Stockholm
March 22, 2010

Volunteering and Studying in Africa: Moving Forward Workshop
February 26, 2010
Volunteering and Studying in Africa Workshop
February 12, 2010

The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006
Filip Reyntjens, Professor, Department of Law and Politics
University of Antwerp
November 24, 2009