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Applications for the 2019-2020 Boren Awards currently being accepted! Complete details can be found at http://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/boren/ Boren Scholarships (for undergraduates) provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world …

Join 14 other Badgers on this fully-funded summer program to Gaborone, Botswana! Led by UW Professor Neil Kodesh, Global Gateway is a unique, engaging experience designed specially for first- and second-year UW students. Applications are …

Later this month, the 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1957 with the goal of cultivating a better understanding …

Russ Feingold, former U.S. Senator and Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region and the Congo-Kinshasa, is on campus for the 2018 fall semester, serving as African Studies’ Human Rights Visiting Professor of Practice. …

The 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The University of Wisconsin is highly represented. See the full program here. UNIVERSITY OF …

COURSE DESCRIPTION This online class provides an examination of francophone women literature, principally from Africa (Malika Mokeddem from Algeria, Fatima Mernissi from Morocco, Fatou Diome from Senegal, and Werewere Liking from Cameroun), but also from …

International Education Week is celebrated every year during the week prior to Thanksgiving. The tradition began in November, 2000, under the support of U.S. President Bill Clinton who stated, “It is the policy of the …

The UW-Madison School of Education is hiring a Coordinator for its newly named Global Engagement Office. The Global Engagement Office in the School of Education was created in 2018 to promote and support globally-focused research and …

The UW-Madison African Studies Program is seeking TA’s for African 277, an introductory survey course designed to be a multi­disciplinary introduction to the cultures and history of Africa. The course is cross-listed with African Cultural Studies, …

Religion and Violence in Africa: Special volume of Religions  As elsewhere, in Africa religion and violence take many forms, and often intersect on many levels, from the micro to the macro. Micro forms of such intersections …