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AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM MEMO
Volume 21
November 2004
Website: <http://africa.wisc.edu/
EVENTS
* Global Health Seminar Series titled,
Training Health Care Providers to Treat AIDS in
Uganda. November 3, 2005, 5:00-6:00 pm 1309
HSLC, Presented by Dr. Frank Graziano, MD/PHD,
Professor of Medicine, UW Medical School, Chief,
Rheumatology and Immunology UW Hospital and
Clinics Director, AIDS/HIV Clinic, UW Hospital.
* Understanding Contemporary Africa:
Misconceptions and Stereotypes,presented by Akua
Sarr, Department of African Languages and
Literature, UW-Madison. Wednesday, November 3rd,
7:00 pm in the MSC lounge of the Red Gym.
* Illustrated lecture, Objects of Power and
Western Encounter in the Bareiss Family
Collection of African Art,by Nicole Bridges,
Bareiss Curatorial Intern. Thursday, November 4,
2004. 5:30 p.m. Elvehjem Room L140.
* UW_Madison Symposium. « 1804 in 2004 :
Legacies of the Haitian Revolution » Friday,
November 12, 2004, Pyle Center Rm. DE235, 9 :30-5
:00. For further information, contact Deborah
Jenson at [log in to unmask]
* Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a
Rwandan Refugee in Zaire.A lecture by
Marie-Béatrice Umutesi, Rwandan Author.
Co-sponsored by the African Studies Program and
UW Womens Studies Research Center. Wednesday,
November 17, 12 noon in 206 Ingraham Hall.
* First Annual UW Global Health Symposium,
Wisconsin and the World: Networking for Global
Health.December 1, 2004, 5:00-8:00pm. HSLC
location to be announced. If you would like
present your work please contact Lori DiPrete
Brown at
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* Participating in Conflict: Living in the
Limpopo National Park, Mozambique.Presented by
Rachel DeMotts, Department of Political Science,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. An Environment
and Development Advanced Research Circle Brown
Bag Series. 12 noon Tuesday, November 9. Room
336 Ingraham Hall.
* Two Zulu Women.A lecture by Harold Scheub,
Department of African Languages and Literature,
UW-Madison. African Sandwich Seminar, December
1. 12 noon in 206 Ingraham Hall.
* The South Madison Branch Library and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies
Program are showing a film entitled, State of
Denial,Saturday, November 6 at 1 p.m. at the
South Madison Branch Library, 2222 S. Park
Street. Mariana Hewson, PhD, Professions
Education Consultant and Dr. Rebecca Byers,
Department of General Internal Medicine,
UW-Madison will conduct a discussion after the
film.
* The South Madison Branch Library and the
UW-Madison African Studies Program will be
showing, Africa Dreaming,three short films on the
theme of love in Africa,on Saturday, November 13
at 1 p.m. at South Madison Branch Library at 2222
S. Park Street. Cherif Correa, PhD Candidate,
African Languages in Literature, UW-Madison and
Mohammad Salama, PhD Candidate, Comparative
Literature, UW Madison; Lecturer, UW Whitewater
will be there to lead a discussion following the
films. Call 266-6395 for more information.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
* The Academic Council on Problems of African
Countries and the Institute for African Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences, are convening the
10th Conference of Africanists on the subject
"Security for Africa: Internal and External
Aspects" on May 24-26, 2005. The Organising
Committee welcomes extra themes that will
elaborate on the subject of the conference. The
working languages are Russian and English. Panel
and round-table proposals (within 500 words in
any of the Conference working languages) are to
be received by November 15, 2004. Information to
be submitted with the proposal, include the panel
conference's full name, title, institutional
affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, and
fax, and names, institutional affiliations, and
e-mail addresses of potential participants.
Abstracts of papers (up to 500 words) accompanied
by authors' short CVs are expected by e-mail by
December 15, 2004 and full papers by March 15,
2005.
JOBS
(Visit: http://africa.wisc.edu/opportunities/employment)
* Two TA positions are available for Africa:
An Introductory Survey for Spring 2005.
Applicants must be UW Madison graduate students
in good standing, making normal progress toward a
degree, specializing in the study of Africa in
any department, with life experience in Africa.
Applicants must be free to attend all lectures
(T/Th 1:00-2:15) and lead five discussion
sections weekly. Submit an application letter
stating background, strengths, and credentials;
all relevant transcripts; a CV; and the names and
telephone numbers of two potential references to:
James Delehanty, African Studies Program, 205
Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison,
WI 53706. Deadline: November 15, 2004.
* Willamette University Anthropology
Department is currently accepting applications
for a tenure track position in Cultural
Anthropology at the Assistant Professor level
beginning August 2005. Candidate research should
focus on Africa and/or the African Diaspora, with
expertise in critical medical anthropology and/or
globalization/political economy. Review of
applications will begin November 1, 2004 and will
continue until the position is filled. See
<http://www.willamette.edu/dept/hr>www.willamette.edu/dept/hr
for additional information. Willamettes
Department of French is also searching for a
tenure-track position in francophone literature
of Africa and the Carribean.
* The Department of Languages, Literatures,
and Linguistics at Syracuse University invites
applications for a tenure-track position in
French at the Assistant or Associate Professor
level, with specialization in Francophone
literatures and cultures of the African and/or
Caribbean worlds. Cover letter, dossier (CV, 3
letters of recommendation, evidence of teaching
excellence, 15-20 page writing sample) to Jaklin
Kornfilt, Chair/Languages, Literatures, and
Linguistics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY,
13244-1160. Submission deadline: December 2, 2004.
* University of Texas at Austin Department of
English is accepting applications for an
Assistant Professor of English with an emphasis
in Anglophone African literatures to begin fall
semester of 2005. The successful candidate will
be expected to contribute to will contribute to
the University of Texas highly ranked Ethnic and
Third World Literatures graduate program.
Deadline for applications is October 15, 2004.
Please send letter and cv to James D. Garrison,
Chair, Department of English, University of Texas
at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1164.
* Luther College is currently accepting
applications for a tenure-track Assistant
Professor position. It will be a shared
appointment in the African Studies and History
Departments. Review of applications begins
December 1, 2004 and will continue until the
position fills. Preliminary interviews will be
conducted with candidates at the American
Historical Association Convention in Seattle,
Jan. 6-9, 2005. For more information visit
<http://www.luther.edu/>www.luther.edu.
* The Center for Afroamerican and African
Studies (CAAS) at the University of Michigan
seeks to add African Studies faculty to fill
full-time joint appointments with any relevant
social science department, excluding
Anthropology. The Center invites applications
from scholars of social science disciplinary
backgrounds, especially, but not exclusively
those whose research includes attention to the
southern African region. Preliminary interviews
will be conducted at the ASA meetings being held
November 11-14, 2004. Applications review begins
immediately, and will continue until the
positions are filled.
OTHER
* Syracuse University has announced a new MA
program in Pan-African Studies to begin Fall
2005. For more information visit their website
at <http://aas.syr.edu/>http://aas.syr.edu.
* Any students or faculty of African Art
History who would be interested in contacts with
Art History students in Cameroon can contact
Maggie Bradenburg in the Department of
Anthropology for more information.
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Tel: 262-2869.
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