Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of humanitarianism. Students in this course will examine the origins of humanitarian ideas and institutions, and how various humanitarian campaigns have been …
Course Description This course will explore the history, theory and ethnography of the African postcolony. What global connections, circuits and migrations have shaped African worlds in the aftermath of empire? What forms of political and economic power have emerged since independence from colonial rule? How have Africans remembered, represented and grappled with the colonial past, …
Tess Kolker is a current UW Junior studying for the year in Morocco. Field of Study: International Studies, Political Studies Hometown: Chatham, NJ What brought you to UW- Madison? I visited Madison for the first time in January of my senior year of high school and was surprised to find such a bustling town with …
With the upcoming U.S. elections dominating the airwaves, here are four elections in Ghana, Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire and the DRC you may not know about, but you should. Is there another election coming up that you think is interesting? Write to us at asp@africa.webhosting.cals.wisc.edu or on our Facebook and tell us about it.
Happy Halloween! Though Halloween has undergone a kind of Americanization in recent decades, its has a history in Christianity (All Hallow’s Eve before All Hallow’s Day) and a Celtic pagan festival called Samhain. However, similar reverence for the dead and spirits is a theme throughout the world. Here are a few unique Africa-related connections: Fete Des Masques …
The application for the 2017 Boren Awards is now open at www.borenawards.org! Boren Awards fund U.S. undergraduate and graduate language study and research abroad in world regions critical to U.S. national interests (including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East). The African Flagship Languages Initiative (AFLI) offers Boren Awards applicants a special …
Abigail Cook is a Masters student in the Water Resources Management Program and also the new Peace Corps Recruiter at UW–Madison. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal for nearly four years. Field of Study: Water Resources Management Hometown: Union Springs, NY What brought you to UW- Madison? I moved to Madison for the Water …
277 Africa: An Introductory Survey Cross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology Instructor: Jo Ellen Fair, African Cultural Studies Eligibility: Applicants must be UW–Madison graduate students in good standing, making normal progress toward a degree, specializing in the study of Africa in any department, with life and preferably research …
Kyra Fox is a UW Junior studying International Studies and Psychology with an African Studies Certificate. She is currently studying in Gulu, Uganda on a program focused on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict in Northern Uganda. Field of Study: International Studies and Psychology Hometown: Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin What brought you to UW- Madison? The …
“When do you tell a child who was born with the virus that he is HIV-positive?” “What do you do when a patient has taken so many pills for so long that she refuses to take any more?” “Stigma is alive and well everywhere: How do you help patients know who to tell and when …