The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2015 and Academic Year 2015-2016 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 13, 2015. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. …
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Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar
Applications are now open for The Center for Humanities Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar “Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery.” The seminar will be led by African Studies Program faculty member Claire Wendland …
Course Spotlight: Imagining Islam
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 …
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 …
African Studies Outreach Project Assistant Position
The African Studies Program is inspired and guided by the Wisconsin Idea to share the expertise, talents, and scholarship of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to promote the study of Africa in schools and communities across …
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 …
Africa in Our Lives: Lindsay Palmer
Since beginning her position in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication this fall, Assistant Professor Lindsay Palmer has not only been impressed with the work of her students, but the autumn colors 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 …