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. Department of Education and administered by the UW’s National Resource Centers to assist students in acquiring foreign language and either …
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 and program director Neil Kodesh. Description Research in the medical humanities and humanistic social sciences has long been most attentive …
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 fervent interest in Islam now? What is the relationship between “Islamic literature” on one hand and, on the other, literature …
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 Studies through non-academic contributions. Aili helped to bring the organization out of dire financial trouble while she served as president …
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 this national award by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) at its annual meeting in Chicago on November 9, …
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 Wisconsin. The ideal candidate for the Outreach Project Assistant position is a graduate student in education with an active academic interest in …
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 major innovations in the use of screen media, not the least of which is the “video film” phenomenon typified by …
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 the UW–Madison Arboretum. Field of study: Global Media Ethics (School of Journalism and Mass Communication) Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, FL What …
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 prospects remain a challenge for most, people invest in creating opportunities for addressing the risks and hardships of everyday life, …
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 that question by using stories of young protagonists’ development to examine what leads to happiness. In this class, students will …