From the Africa Book Centre – Clearance Sale The Africa Book Centre will be moving to new, smaller premises in February and to this end, we are offering over 1000 excess stock items at bargain basement prices (up to 70% off list price). See the catalogues (arranged by region) here: http://www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/index.html?http% 3A//www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/SALE_BOOKS_-_WAREHOUSE_CLEARANCE.html&Cata logBody If you…
ASA Call for Proposals
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 55th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association RESEARCH FRONTIERS IN THE STUDY OF AFRICA November 29-December 1, 2012 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel, Philadelphia, PA DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: March 15, 2012 PROGRAM CHAIRS Tejumola Olaniyan, Departments of English and African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison Staffan I. Lindberg, Departments of…
Invisible Children @ Wesleyan THIS TUESDAY
Invisible Children – Home. Wesleyan University September 13, 2011 | 07 PM – 09 PM Event Location Tishler Lecture Hall Room 150, Exley Science Center 265 Church Street Middletown, CT 06459
Professor Eric Charry Leads Summer Institute
Read more here: 5 Questions With . . . Eric Charry on Ethnomusicology, Culture
Africa-related Honors Theses, 2010 – 2011
Here are the theses that were submitted to WesScholar this year that have Africa-related themes. [Students and faculty, please let me know if I missed one!] How to Recognise Different Types of Assistance From Quite a Long Way Away: The European Union, China, and African Development, Miranda Susan Becker The Artist, the Martyred, and the…
More Dell Innovation Awards for Wesleyan’s students
In 2010, Shining Hope for Communities, an NGO created by Wesleyan students to help women and girls in the Kibera slums of Kenya, won the Dell Innovation Awards. They may have started a trend. While none of the Dell finalists this year are from Wesleyan, three of the semifinalists were. One of them focused on…
Upcoming Talk: Said Graiouid (Middle East and North Africa)
Tuesday, April 12th at 12:00 pm in the Wasch Center. “Political Change and Youth in the Middle East and North Africa” Said Graiouid SIT Study Abroad Academic Dean for Africa and the Middle East Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco The pace of political change in the Middle East and…
Robert Baum: “The Emergence of Women Prophets in Casamance Religion”
SILIPO ART HISTORY LECTURE SERIES THE EMERGENCE OF WOMEN PROPHETS IN CASAMANCE (WEST AFRICAN) RELIGION Robert Baum Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of Religious Studies University of Missouri Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:00‐6:00 p.m. Vanguard Lounge Center for African American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
The Animated Atlas of African University
Animated Atlas of African History, from Brown University. An example of their political map, circa 1975.
The Christopher Brodigan Award
Seniors and recent graduates, now is the time to consider applying for the Christopher Brodigan Award. Each year several students receive this award. The primary purpose is to fund service projects, although proposals for research may also be considered. So Apply Now! Applications are due April 1. For more information: http://africa.blogs.wesleyan.edu/brodigan/