AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM MEMO
October 3, 2000
EVENTS
African Studies Sandwich Seminars: 206 Ingraham Hall, 12 noon.
Wednesday, October 4 - "The Egyptian Village Under a New Land Tenure
Policy". Ashraf Hussein, visiting scholar, Land Tenure Center.
Thursday, October 5 - "Senegal in the Aftermath of the March 2000
Elections". Leonardo Villalon, associate professor, Political Science,
University of Kansas.
Wednesday, October 11 - "Froncophonie and the National Airwaves: A History
of Television in Senegal". Jo Ellen Fair, associate professor, Journalism
and Mass Communications, UW-Madison.
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Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture:
Monday, October 16 - "The Challenge of Ethnicity to Human Rights". Yash
Ghai, Professor of Law, HongKong University. 2260 Law Building, 4:00 pm.
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS 2001:
CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange
Ghana: Ghana and the Dynamics of Economic Development. July 8-18, 2001
South Africa: Nation-Building in South Africa. June 10-20, 2001
Tunisia: The Legacy of Ancient Carthage. June 17-29, 2001
For more information contact: CIEE, 6333 Third Avenue, 20th Floor, New
York, NY 10017-6706, Tel: 212-822-2747
Email: [log in to unmask]; Web Site: www.ciee.org/ifds
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Visit our employment website: <http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/employ.html>
Colorado School of Mines - Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts and
International Studies. Deadline: November 15, 2000 . Send a letter of
application, resume, names and email address of at least
three professional references to: Office of Human Resources, Search
#171220, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois Street
Golden, CO 80401
FELLOWSHIPS
West African Research Association (WARA)
For further information, visit the website:
<http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/wara.html>
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Fellowships for
Regional Research 2001-2002
Open to U.S. doctoral and postdoctoral scholars proposing research in the
fields of humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences. Research
should have regional significance in the Middle East, subsaharan Africa,
and/or South Asia, and must be conducted in more than one country, at least
one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center.
Fellowship tenure must be of at least three months' duration. Eight small
grants of up to $6,000 will be awarded, each of which carries an additional
$3,000 for travel expenses. Deadline: Dec. 31, 2000
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2001 WARA/WARC Collaborative Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship Program
The West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, is offering two (2)
fellowships, each of which will support a pair of researchers (one
researcher based in a West African institution and one based in a North
American institution). The two pairs of researchers will spend 2-3 months
at the Center as scholars-in-residence in order to collaborate on their
joint project.
WARA, 1414 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706; Telephone: 608-262-2487; Fax: 608-265-4151; email:
[log in to unmask]
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2000
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The American Research Center in Egypt:
The U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
funds fellowships available to pre-doctoral candidates who will be in the
all-but-dissertation stage at the beginning of tenure; and to post-doctoral
scholars. Restricted to U.S. citizens. Minimum stay of three months.
The National Endowment for the Humanities makes available 2-3 fellowships
for post-doctoral scholars with a minimum stay of four months.
Restrictions apply.
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation funds the Kress Fellowship in Egyptian Art
and Architecture, an annual prize given to a pre-doctoral candidate of any
nationality.
The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund provides the McHugh Award, a small
grant given to a graduate student from any nation to encourage the study of
Egyptian geoarchaeology and prehistory.
Deadlines: November 1, 2000 for the receipt of application and accompanying
materials. For further information and an application, contact: The
American Research Center in Egypt, Emory University West Campus, 1256
Briarcliff Rd., NE, Bldg A, Suite 423W Atlanta, GA 30306; Tel:
404-712-9854; Fax: 404-712-9849; Email: [log in to unmask];Website: www.arce.org
OTHER
Betty Franklin-Hammonds Tutor and Mentor Program. Be a mentor to a child of
color. Contact: Marilyn Dukes-Winters, City of Madison Minority Affairs
Committee 266-4654; Kathy Price, Volunteer Coordinator, Madison
Metropolitan School 261-9006
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