The West African Research Association (WARA), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, is pleased to announce support for young West African scholars through its Ideas Matter Doctoral Fellowship program. This program reflects our joint commitment to increasing opportunities for emerging West African scholars, people who are transforming ideas into active solutions to the challenges facing …
The Aspire Grant Program provides competitive research grants of up to $5,000 USD for African graduate students and early career professionals working in the areas of biodiversity, conservation and environmental sustainability in the Congo Basin region. The application period for 2022 runs from April 1 to June 15. More information on the grant and the …
Date: April 14 at 4 pm Place: Van Hise Room 114 You are invited to attend “The Forms of Naked Agency and Genital Cursing” by Prof. Naminata Diabate (Cornell University). This talk tracks the changing nature of genital cursing as it travels spatially, temporally, and formally. It also considers the gesture’s newly acquired form, what …
First drop-in advising for students interested in learning more about the FULBRIGHT US STUDENT PROGRAM opportunities kicks off in less than an hour! Connect between 11 am & 1 pm at https://go.wisc.edu/FUSPadvising – and learn more at https://go.wisc.edu/fusp anytime!
The University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a one-year (with the possibility of renewal), full-time, appointment-stream (non-tenure-stream) postdoctoral fellowship centered on African Studies, beginning August 2022. Learn more…
Date: April 12, Van Hise 499 Join the African Cultural Studies Department for a workshop led by Prof. Naminata Diabate (Cornell University) on the looming limits of postcolonial criticism as an explanatory framework. Please note that the workshop is only open to graduate students.
The African Studies Teaching Fellows program gives students the opportunity to develop and teach an online course for the International Studies major. As part of the program, fellows receive pedagogical training and support as well as the opportunity to create and revise a teaching statement. Vincent R. Ogoti is the inaugural African Studies Teaching Fellow …
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program (FUSP) is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master’s and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. Most grantees plan their own programs. Projects can include university coursework, independent library or field research, teaching English, classes in a music conservatory or art school, …
We are thrilled to announce that Africa at Noon will be back in person on March 30th at 206 Ingraham Hall. Our first in-person guest speaker will be Tony Chafer, a Professor of African and French Studies at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Lunch will be served at 1 p.m., following the presentation. If you …
Instructor: Martha (Janey) Myers Date: June 20-July 31, 2022 Meeting: Online The Cold War was a significant period of global political, cultural, and economic history during the second half of the twentieth century. Its consequences were wide-reaching; it influenced the geopolitics of regions across the globe and the popular cultures of post-WWII nation-states, shaped patterns …