Course Lists
The course lists for Summer and Fall 2008 have been published. Please see the Courses section of the website.
News and Announcements
Items Needed
African flags for the African Studies collection. If you have an African flag (or any other object/book/artifact/textile) you'd like to donate to the African Studies Program Outreach collection, please drop it off in 205 Ingraham or contact Toni Pressley-Sanon (toni.sanon@gmail.com) for more info.
African Studies Association Newsletter
Per vote by the Board of Directors at the Fall 2006 Board Meeting, the ASA News will now be completely electronic. In an effort to be more environmentally sound and save money for the Association, the ASA News will be online and no paper copies will be sent. The January newsletter is available at: http://www.africanstudies.org/?page=e_newsletter. Future editions will be at the same web address.
Interventions - Books Available for Review
Interventions has a number of books available for review. The length of the review is negotiable (generally under 1000 words). Reviewers would have three months or less to submit finished reviews. The editor stresses "Please, these are not gift books, they are books by fellow colleagues and meant to be reviewed in a major journal. Please volunteer only if you will actually write the review." Contact Teju Olaniyan, North American Book Reviews Editor, tolaniyan@wisc.edu, with "Interventions review" as subject for titles and more information.
The Center for Early Modern Studies
The Center for Early Modern Studies is a group of faculty and graduate students designed to provide an interdepartmental community for University of Wisconsin - Madison scholars and scholars-in-training who work in the period from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. To improve the interdisciplinary conversation among both students and professors working in the field, the CEMS will be sponsoring lectures, colloquia, and speaker series by UW faculty and visiting scholars. For more information, email kboettcher@wisc.edu or visit their website.
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization along with the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston are pleased to announce the release of UNESCO's African Passages website -- http://www.cofc.edu/unescoafricanpassages.
Join the African Studies Program Outreach Speakers' Bureau
The African Studies Program Outreach is looking for new members to join our Speakers' Bureau. Work with local schools, organizations, and community groups to share your knowledge and experience of Africa with a diverse range of people and help us give back to the community. To get involved, contact Toni Pressley-Sanon at outreach@africa.wisc.edu. Faculty and students are all welcome!
Harold Scheub Web Resource
There is now a web resource on the work of Harold Scheub. In conjunction with the publication of South African Voices (Parallel Press 2006), UW Libraries has launched a website devoted to the research, images, and sounds of the work of Professor Harold Scheub, Department of African Languages and Literature. Check it out at: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc.
