Wisconsin faculty, students, and alumni participated in “Changing Course,” symposium on October 12, 2012, jointly hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program, the Department of African Languages and Literature, and the Language Institute. …
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Explore Summer 2013 domestic and international African language programs
The Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has put together a helpful resource for students looking for summer African language programs. One document includes a list of overseas African language programs …
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 …
African Languages Initiative funds pre-overseas language study
The African Languages Initiative (AFLI) offers Boren Fellowship applicants the opportunity to study African languages and cultures by participating in domestic and overseas language programs. The African Languages Initiative funding is available for Boren Scholars …
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 …
Moroccan pioneer in women’s rights to speak on aftermath of Arab Spring
From the Division of International Studies Fatima Sadiqi, who founded a women’s NGO working on family law reforms and women’s rights in her native Morocco, will speak on “North African Women’s Rights in the Aftermath …
Teaching Assistants Needed for Spring 2013
Each semester hundreds of students enroll in the course, Africa: An Introductory Survey which is cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology. Graduate students with teach experience …
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships and the African Languages Initiative
The applications for the 2013-2014 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, …
Ambassador John Hirsch meets with African Studies graduate students
John L. Hirsch (History PhD’65) met with graduate students from History, Political Science, Geography, and Development Studies to discuss their research topics. As a former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone in the 1990s and having …
El Nossery on “Témoignages fictionnels”
“Témoignages fictionnels au féminin. Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne” is Nevine El Nossery, assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian, most recent book to be published by Rodopi. Details …