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October 16, 2000
EVENTS
African Studies Sandwich Seminars: 206 Ingraham Hall, 12 noon.:
Wednesday, October 18 - Craig Gjerde, professor, Medical School,
UW-Madison. "A Month in Malawi with Medical Students"
Wednesday, October 25: Anne Lewinson, Ph.D., Anthropology, UW-Madison.
"Transforming Modernity at the End of the Millennium: Urban Office Workers
in Tanzania"
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Friday, October 20 at 12:00 noon, Land Tenure Center Brownbag Seminar, LTC
Conference Room, 333 N. Randall Ave.
"New Technology, Tenure Rights, and African Land Management Systems: Room
for a Fit or Another Dark Alley?" to be presented by Donna Hornby, Project
Leader, AFRA (Association for Rural Advancement), Pietermaritzburg, South
Africa
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Thursday 2 November, 12:15 pm, 1511 Van Hise. The Department of African
Languages and Literature is pleased to announce a graduate colloquium by
Katrina Daly Thompson. "Reading Shona Film and Television: A Proposed Case
Study of Media Literacies, Language Policies and Motion Pictures in Zimbabwe"
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 27th Annual Symposium "Technology and Development in Africa", April
25th-28th, 2001
Center for African Studies and College of Engineering, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in cooperation with the African Academy of
Sciences. Deadline: November 15. <www.afrst.uiuc.edu>
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Visit our employment website: <http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/employ.html>
Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Studies/ Anglophone African Literature
and Studies
Assistant professor, tenure-track, in Caribbean literature and studies or
in African literature and studies, with a strong Anglophone emphasis.
Application must be postmarked by 3 November 2000. Please send letter and
vita to: John Leavey Chair; Department of English,4008 Turlington Hall,P O
Box 117310, University of Florida,Gainesville FL,32611-7310.
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Yoruba Language and Literature
The Dept. of African & Asian Languages & Literatures (AALL) at the
University of Florida (UF) invites applications for a tenure track position
in Yoruba language and literature effective August 2001. The deadline for
receipt of application is December 6, 2000. Contact: Chair, Yoruba Search
Committee
Dept. of African & Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Florida,470
Grinter Hall, P.O.Box 115565,Gainesville, FL 32611-5565
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Louisiana State Unviersity. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
seeks candidates for a position in traditional African, Afro-Caribbean
and/or African American relgions. Deadline: November 1, 2000.
<http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/phil>
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General Coordinator of Programs
An international organization operating in the information and
communication sector in West Africa, wishes to recruit for its Dakar
headquarters a General Coordinator of Programs. Several years of
experience in coordination or in conducting programs especially in the area
of information and communication as well in fundraising. Email:
[log in to unmask] for further information.
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Coordinator of African Language Instruction
Indiana University's African Studies Program and Department of Linguistics
announce the opening for a Clinical Assistant Professor. This appointment
is for a full-time, ten-month position (with the possibility for summer
teaching) starting in August, 2001. The position entails teaching an
African language at various levels and coordinating and supervising the
teaching of African languages. Deadline: January 15, 2001.
Contact:Language Coordinator Search, African Studies Program, Indiana
University, Woodburn 221, Bloomington, IN 47405.
EVENTS
Bard College will be celebrating Chinua Achebe's 70th birthday by hosting a
conference "Home and Exile: Achebe at 70" on 3-4 November 2000. Nuruddin
Farah, Nadine Gordimer, Ali Mazrui, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and
Wole Soyinka will be among the many distinguished writers and scholars who
will be participating. Seating Limited. Reservations Required. Visit our
website at:
http://www.bard.edu/news_events/archive/achebe/
OTHER
Operation Crossroads Africa -
Summer programs for students to work in Africa. <http://www.igc.org/oca
Application deadline: February 1, 2001
Boston University International Programs
Study of Niger Language and Liberal Arts Program. <www.bu.edu/abroad
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