African Studies Program Memo
Volume 14, 1999

EVENTS

Talk: "Making the New South African Constitution" presented by Christina
Murray, University of Cape Town. Tuesday, November 2, noon in the Library
of the Washburn Observatory. Sponsored by the Institute for Research in the
Humanities.

Graduate Seminar: "How to Write a High-Quality Application for a Foreign
Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (FLAS).  Thursday, November 4,
1999, 206 Ingraham, 3 p.m.

Sandwich Seminar:   Wednesday, November 2, 12 noon, Room 206 Ingraham Hall
Esperanza Brizuela Garcia. Ph.D. candidate, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.  "Some Areas of Analysis in the Study of
African Historiography"

Wednesday, November 3: Luca G. Castellani, Research Fellow, Civil Law,
Università Degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italia.
"Viewing the Ethiopian/Eritrean War Through Each Country's Constitution:
How Different Approaches to Statehood Led to Cooperation and Conflict"

Land Tenure Center Brownbag: "Recent Developments in Land Tenure Law in
Eritrea, Horn of Africa" will be presented by Luca G. Castellani (see Nov.
3 above)

Graduate Colloquium: "Writing In and Out of Social Spaces: The Maghrebian
Novel of French Expression in the 1990s" presented by Jennifer Lee
Johnston, Dept. of French and Italian, Thursday, November 4, noon, 1418 Van
Hise.

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. These 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, Hausa, Swahili, Yoruba, and a yet-to-be-determined language of
Southern Africa, possibly Zulu.

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.  Application deadline is February
14, 2000. 

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Intensive Advanced Zulu Group Project Abroad in South Africa. An eight-week
intensive Zulu Program in South Africa will be offered by the Association
of African Studies Programs (AASP), with the support of the US Department
of Education Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program from June
15-August 12, 2000. The Program will be directed by the Ohio State
University's Program in African Languages, together with the Department of
Zulu at the University of Natal, Peitermaritzburg. Applicants must be US
citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Eligible candidates are: 1. Graduate students or upper-class
undergraduates; 2. Faculty members who teach modern languages or area
studies in elementary or secondary schools; 3. Experienced administrators
responsible for planning or supervising programs in modern foreign
languages or area studies at the elementary, secondary or post-secondary
level. Priority will be given to applicants who have successfully completed
a minimum of one full year of college-level courses in either Zulu or Xhosa.

Application deadline: February 4, 2000. For further information, contact
Dr. Lupenga Mphande: [log in to unmask] or Christoper M. Johnson:
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REQUEST FOR ARTIFACTS

The African Studies Program Outreach requests artifacts from Africa for its
collection which is used in K-12 presentations. We are especially in need
of donations from southern, eastern, northern regions of the continent.


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For further information about Volume 14 Memo, contact Eileen McNamara,
262-4461 or email: [log in to unmask]
                        	

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