“Queering Withdrawal in Novels by Achmat Dangor and Rozena Maart” Stephanie Selvick LGBT Coordinator UW-Whitewater Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00-1:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Dr. Selvick will analyze divergent representations of queer South African celibacies, and contend they serve as important artistic responses to the colonial legacy of radicalized sexual terror and its extension and …
“Art and Education in Apartheid South Africa” Daniel Magaziner Assistant Professor of History Yale University Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI Description Between 1951 and 1981, the white-minority government of South Africa ran a school for art teachers at Ndaleni, Natal. In this talk—which draws on the …
With careers ranging from global health to corporate law to the Foreign Service, these alumni have a wealth of experience to share with students interested in Africa-focused careers. We would love to have your students join us for this event (there will be pizza!). Could you please spread the word through your website, social media, …
“Africa, France & the Future: Exile in Ndjolé (Gabon), ca. 1900 Cameroon” Gregory Mann Professor of History Columbia University Wednesday, October 18, 2017 206 Ingraham Hal l | 1 155 Observatory Drive Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.
The U.S. Department of Education has announced that four students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been selected as recipients of the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Awards for 2017. Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for …
Professor emeritus Jan Vansina, one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa, died peacefully in Madison on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. He was surrounded by his wife, Claudine, and his son, Bruno. Diagnosed with lung cancer in the Fall of 2015, Vansina underwent chemotherapy for a few weeks and enjoyed a remission in the summer …
Marc Hertzman Professor of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:30 – 5:00 PM 8417 Social Science This presentation explores the contours and significance of prolonged searches for African origins of two of Brazil’s most cherished, recognizable symbols: samba music and Zumbi, the last leader of the famous 17th-century quilombo (runaway …
Emily Callaci Assistant Professor of History UW–Madison Nov. 23, 2015 3:30 – 4:30 PM 212 University Club Building Urban migration in Africa in the second half of the twentieth century has been one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in history. Yet in the midst of this urban revolution, many African nationalist intellectuals and political …
The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences. Institutions and individuals contribute to the ACLS Fellowship Program and its endowment, including The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Council’s …
East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW–Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / History “City Stories as National Allegory in Postcolonial Africa” Emily Callaci/ History “Tokyo-centrism, or the Ideology of the Metropolis” Louise …