AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM MEMO
November 22, 2000
Volume 6

EVENTS

Land Tenure Brown Bag Seminar: Land Tenure Center Conference Room, 333 N.
Randall Ave.  12:00 noon

Thursday, November 30  "Farmer-Herder Conflict in Sahelian West Africa"
Matthew Turner, Associate Professor, Geography, UW-Madison. 

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African Studies Sandwich Seminars:  206 Ingraham Hall, 12 noon.

Wednesday, November 29:
Meg Skinner, Co-founder of Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA)
"A Luta Continua: A Former Anti-Apartheid Activist Reflects on the Ongoing
Struggle in Mozambique"
                                  	
Wednesday, December 6:
Bekele Haile-Selassie, SJD candidate, UW Law Faculty, Professor of Law,
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. "Ethnic Federalism: The Experience of
Ethiopia"                                       	

Wednesday, December 13:
Cherryl Walker, former Land Claims Commissioner for KwaZulu-Natal. "Land
Reform in South Africa: Challenges and Constraints?"
	
CALL FOR PAPERS

6th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies will be
held at Northwestern University from  March 30-April 1st 2001. The theme of
this year's conference is "Re-envisioning Africa:  Multidisciplinary
Perspectives in African Studies." Submission deadline for abstracts:
December 1, 2000. Complete papers will be due to the panel discussants by
February 1, 2001. The registration form can be found on the conference web
page at: http://nuinfo.nwu.edu/african-studies/6thgradconf.htm


The Center for African Studies, Rutgers University is sponsoring a
conference "Contesting African Cities: Authority, Social Movements,
Cultural Expressions" at Rutgers University on March 29-31, 2001. The
conference seeks to examine the efforts of political authorities,
propertied classes, and religious and other institutions to regulate
cities–and the alternative definitions and visions of cities produced by
social movements and popular cultural expressions. Deadline for submission
of paper proposals is February 1, 2001.  For further information call
732/445-6638 or email: [log in to unmask]	

CONFERENCE

NACAL (North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics). The
conference will be held in Toronto from March 30 to April 1. Robin Thelwall
<[log in to unmask]> for further details and registration.

	
COURSES (SUMMER)

Shona at Michigan State University, June 21-July 27, 2001. (Brochure
available from the UW African Studies Program)

Swahili (Intermediate) Study in Mombasa, Kenya, sponsored by Yale
University. (Brochure available from the UW African Studies Program)


EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Visit our employment website: <http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/employ.html>

**Coordinator of African Language Instruction

Indiana University's African Studies Program and Department of Linguistics
announce the opening for a Clinical Assistant Professor. The position
entails teaching an African language at various levels and coordinating and
supervising the teaching of African languages.  Indiana University
currently offers Hausa, Swahili, Twi, and Xhosa in regular courses and
tutorials in other African languages. Applicants must have an M.A. (or
preferably a Ph.D.), native or near-native ability in an African language
(preferably Swahili, although Bamana, Hausa, Twi, or Xhosa may be
considered), and teaching and supervisory experience.  Applicants should
send a letter and curriculum vita (including current telephone and e-mail
addresses) to: Language Coordinator Search, African Studies Program,
Indiana University, Woodburn 221, Bloomington, IN 47405.

Deadline: January 15, 2001.

**Afro-American and African Studies Visiting Research Fellows
Harvard University, MA--W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
Applications must be received by Friday, January 19, 2001; and Visiting
Mandela Fellow. Deadline: January 8, 2001

** Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina
English( African and/or African-American literature)


FELLOWSHIPS

**Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)

The African Studies Program administers a program of Higher Education Act
Title VI graduate fellowships for the study of African languages and area
studies. The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships seek to
improve language and international studies in the United States.  Proposed
African languages which are eligible for the FLAS program at the UW-Madison
are Arabic, Chichewa II*, Hausa, Swahili, and Yoruba.

The fellowships cover tuition and a stipend for one academic year or for
one summer.  Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the
United States. Applications by students in professional fields are
encouraged. Fellows must be admitted to or be currently enrolled in
graduate programs.
	
Both academic year and summer FLAS applications are available at the
African Studies Program, 205 Ingraham. Telephone: 608/262-2380. Application
deadline is February 12, 2001. 



**African American Studies Program Graduate Fellowship Initiative
University of Houston. Deadline:  January 5, 2001.


OTHER
Student seeks work: 
If you are looking for someone to clean your house on Saturdays, please
contact Eileen McNamara for the name and telephone number of the student
who is seeking employment.

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listings in this Memo, please contact Eileen McNamara, 205 Ingraham Hall;
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