The Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) at UW–Madison has recapped the”fun and informative” United Nations Association 70th Anniversary Luncheon held on Oct. 18, 2015. The event was co-sponsored by the UW Global Health Institute, the UW International Division, the African Studies Program and Edgewood College. The UNA-USA Dane County Chapter is a …
University of Wisconsin-News featured photos from a Nov. 30 art exhibit at the UW–Madison Art Lofts by Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian woodcarver, master-coffin builder and Windgate Artist in Residence in the Art Department. Anang’s gun-breaking ceremony showcased a gun-shaped coffin he has worked on during his residency at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Anang invited guests to participate in …
The African Studies Program is thrilled to launch its 2015-16 BOOK BASKETS outreach program. The project includes a selection of highly acclaimed Africa-related books available for loan to educators. The selection is primarily fiction, but also include autobiographical works, folktales, graphic novels, picture books, young-adult novels, and novels for older students. A number of book …
Kathleen Klaus, UW–Madison Ph.D ’15, received the 2015 African Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper “Contentious Land Claims and the Non-Escalation of Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s Coast Region.” In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established an annual prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the ASA Annual Meeting …
Applications are now open for the 2016 competitions of both the IRIS Fieldwork Award and the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship. IRIS Fieldwork Award The Institute for Regional and International Studies at UW–Madison is offering a “Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award” for Summer 2016. Complete details on the award can be found at: http://iris.wisc.edu/funding/summer-grad-award.htm The purpose of …
The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2016 and Academic Year 2016-2017 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 15, 2016. 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 …
Plan your summer African language study with this helpful list of domestic and international language programs. Summer 2016 domestic and international programs The link takes you to a Google spreadsheet that also includes tabs with lists of overseas African language programs that FLAS students have attended in the past. Prospective FLAS students should note that …
In a blog for the Huffington Post, Aili Mari Tripp, African Studies affiliated faculty member and UW–Madison professor of political science, speaks out about the danger of anti-Muslim rhetoric following a string of highly publicized terrorism attacks. Tripp called for more global empathy and the need to “distinguish between the vast majority of Muslims for …
Akshay Sarathi is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and successfully organized the October Maritime Cultures on the East African Coast conference, sponsored by the African Studies Program. The African Studies Program caught up with him after to hear about the event, his work in archaeology and the Seafaring in East Africa (SEA) …
Course Description This graduate seminar will focus on the politics of the quotidian, the small events, phenomena, attitudes, and emotions of daily life, with the assumption that however apolitical they might seem to be on the surface, they might really be deeply political on levels we might not always be aware of. In other words, …