Diana Chioma Famakinwa is our new interim assistant director. She joins the African Studies Program from UW–Madison’s School of Education, where she is completing her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, with a concentration on comparative …
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Introducing Dr. Kaiping Chen
Kaiping Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computational Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Maison, Department of Life Sciences Communication. She is an affiliate of the UW-Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology …
Africa at Noon Zoom Events Information
The Zoom information for our virtual Spring Africa at Noon series is below. You may click the link to join or dial in: When: Jan 27, 2021 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Every …
Committed to Change: Promoting Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in Language Education
All interested members of the UW-Madison language teaching and learning community are invited to apply to participate in this yearlong, non-credit seminar for shared professional learning around social justice and IDEA (inclusion, diversity equity, and access) …
SLA LECTURE: UNDOING WHITE SUPREMACY IN THE LANGUAGE DISCIPLINES
MARY BUCHOLTZ PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA 3:00 pm Central time, Friday, September 11 Introduction and moderation: Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor and Chair, Department of African Cultural Studies; Core Faculty, …
Multicultural Student Center info sessions
The Multicultural Student Center (MSC) is looking to host targeted 15 minute in-person info sessions lead by 1 MSC staff member. Their hope is to target Ethnic Studies courses primarily comprised of new/incoming students of …
Course Spotlight: African Intellectual History
Course Description This course invites students to explore histories of knowledge, ideas and intellectuals in Africa. We will take a capacious definition of intellectual, exploring the lives and work not only of writers and scholars, …
Stanford Archaeology Center BIPOC Curatorial Post Doc
The Stanford Archaeology Center announces a postdoctoral position in cultural heritage and material culture collections. The field of expertise is open, with preference given to African history and culture and/or collections-based scholarship complementary to faculty …
COURSE SPOTLIGHT: Interdepartmental Seminar in African Studies
Course Description This graduate seminar provides a setting for participants to consider Africa – as an idea, a field of study, a place in the world, a subject for teaching – from a multi-disciplinary perspective. …
Assistant Director Dorothy Mayne to Begin New Position with UW-Madison Writing Center
Dorothy Mayne started as the Assistant Director of the African Studies Program in August 2019, and in the last year, has worked on our annual conferences, prepared for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African …