Background and Motivation The inception of the ASP Graduate Working Group (GWG) was fueled by a blend of experiences and realizations among graduate students and the African Studies Program (ASP) leadership. The initial spark came from a publishing workshop held by Carli Coetzee, an Oxford scholar who was featured as a Spring 2023 Africa …
Can you share your educational journey and experience in African Studies and how it has prepared you for this teaching fellowship? My journey in African Studies goes way back to my undergraduate days at the University of Nairobi, where I studied Linguistics and Swahili Studies. I was fascinated by linguistics, but I was also invested …
The Center for Literacy and Intermedial Crossings Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has announced a doctoral research vacancy in Afrofuturist Mediascapes among two others. This position is part of the ERC research group MERLIT, supervised by Prof. Eva Ulrike Pirker. Click here for details.
January 31st Listening Session and Welcome Lunch Hosted by Marissa Moorman Faculty Director of the African Studies Program, UW–Madison Location: Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 February 7th Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think Ainehi Edoro Department of English, UW–Madison Hosted by Marissa Moorman Location: Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory …
Canadian Association of African Studies 2024 Annual Conference Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Africa: Past, Present, and Future McGill University, Montreal, Canada June 12 -June 16, 2024 New Proposal Submission Deadline: January 5, 2024 ! Learn more about the event and submission details for individual or group panel submission
The University of Wisconsin Press has announced the launch of a new book series, Women and Gender in Africa, edited by Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, associate professor of African Cultural Studies and History at UW, and Aili Mari Tripp, Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at UW. Women and Gender in Africa seeks to publish innovative book-length …
Professor of African Cultural Studies, Luís Madureira, joined historian John K. Thornton to write a biography on King Afonso I, the sixth ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo titled Afonso I Mvemba a Nzinga, King of Kongo. Madureira took Afonso’s correspondence from the 1500s and translated them into English, finding previously unknown original meanings in …
The highly ranked Departments of Art History and African Cultural Studies are seeking excellent candidates for a tenure-track position at the assistant rank or tenured position at the associate rank beginning August 2024. The two departments are open to any time period, field of inquiry within these disciplines, and methodological approach. Application opened at November …
History 861: Health, Medicine and Healing in Africa Instructor: Neil Kodesh 1-3 Credits Level: Advanced (graduate seminar) R 1:20-3:15 p.m. Open to graduate students. Requisites: none Course Description: This course will examine the historical and anthropological literature on health, medicine, and healing in Africa. Students will explore the creative and shifting ways in which Africans have sought …
Canadian Association of African Studies 2024 Annual Conference Sustainability and Sustainable Development in Africa: Past, Present, and Future McGill University, Montreal, Canada June 12 -June 16, 2024 Proposal Submission Deadline: December 4, 2023 Learn more about the event and submission details for individual or group panel submission