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, SLA PhD Program Abstract: The uprisings in protest of the state-sanctioned murders of Black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, …
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 color. The goal is to raise more awareness about the MSC as a safe space on campus and share about …
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, but also healers, spiritual leaders, scientists, revolutionaries and artists. Several core questions will sustain our inquiry from week to week. …
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 interests and priorities. The focus will be research of African ethnographic and archaeological materials held by the Stanford University Archaeology Collections, …
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. It is available to graduate students as African Cultural Studies 983, Anthropology 983, Economics 983, Geography 983, History 983, or …
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 Leaders, advised for the undergraduate certificate in African Studies, administered the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, and more. …
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates (within three years of Ph.D. completion) from Sub-Saharan Africa, are eligible to apply for the World Bank Group-Africa Fellowship Program World Bank Group-Africa Fellows are eligible to spend six months getting hands-on experience at World Bank Group headquarters in Washington D.C. or country offices Fellows will work on …
The Department of African Cultural Studies is welcoming Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell as an incoming graduate student this upcoming fall. Rebecca graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and is beginning her PhD in African Cultural Studies from UW–Madison. Throughout the years, Rebecca has been involved in various projects such as It’s …
The UW–Madison student organization Project Malawi will be holding a fundraiser in partnership with ACADES. ACADES is a Malawian Agricultural Organization that supports 3,000 young aspiring farmers in Malawi; through this organization, young people are provided with loans and educational training to support their farming career. A core component of ACADES’ program is the training …