The Language Institute, in partnership with other campus units, is hosting several upcoming events for undergraduate students in the next few weeks. Launching Your International Career Thursday, February 9, 12-1pm Ingraham Hall room 336 Interested in working or interning abroad? Join the International Internship Program (IIP) and the Language Institute to learn about international job/internship …
The UW–Madison International Internship Program (IIP) offers internships abroad with organizations all over the world. Applications are open for Summer 2023 internships! In-person summer internships for African Studies students (deadline February 19th): You can also find & propose your own internship for credit or apply for funding! Have more questions or want more information? Get in touch with Nathaniel at ncliedl@wisc.edu or make an appointment
The Africa Seminar at Northwestern University’s Program for African Studies invites papers that engage with the study of Africa, African-American, Africana, and Diaspora Studies on the theme of built environments. The hybrid one-day conference will be hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, on May 5th, 2023. The built environment includes all the human-made physical …
Time: 2:00 pm GMT. Check your local time here. Abstract: In 1953, three Ugandans set out in a Peugeot station wagon on a two-month mission trip across Africa. All were recent converts to Baha’ism, a religion founded in the 19th century. One stayed in the Republic of Congo, the second in the Central African …
MadLit 2023 Call for Papers MadLit Conference 2023: Ephemerals The University of Wisconsin–Madison English department (Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, English Language and Linguistics, and Creative Writing) will bring together graduate student researchers, educators, and writers to discuss critical and/or creative works that think through the theme and metaphor of ephemerals. Ephemerals, wildflowers marked …
FINAL Spring 2023 Africa At Noon List
When the African Studies Program kindly asked me if I wanted to share a few “words of farewell” for its final newsletter of 2022, I immediately accepted. As the outgoing Chair of the department of African Cultural Studies, it made sense to address our community one last time before departing for Syracuse University. And I …
Mosa Leteane is a Fulbright Scholar from South Africa. She is a Law graduate from the University of the Free State. As a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, Mosa is passionate about education, leadership, and law. Her research is aimed at understanding the recent transitional justice developments in the country and the implications that has for an established democracy. What …
Joel Baraka is a former King Morgridge Scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (’22) who graduated with a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering degree and currently working full-time as a project engineer for CG Schmidt Inc. Anson Liow is a graduate student pursuing his Master of Science in Construction Engineering & Management on course to graduate this December …
Fall 2022 Africa At Noon Speaker Events September 14 Jan Vansina Lecture: The Long Atlantic: A History in Terms of Africa(In-Person) Kathryn de Luna Georgetown University Hosted by Neil Kodesh September 21 Decoloniality Dialogues: Building Decolonial Commitments and Praxis (Virtual) Upenyu Majee, Decolonial Dialogues Michigan State University Hosted by Luis Madureira September 28 CANCELLED-For a …