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Subject: African Studies Memo, Vol 3
AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM MEMO
Volume 3
October 2003
Website africa.wisc.edu
EVENTS
October 9. Dinner and Culture. "Discover Senegal." Come learn about
Senegalese culture, history and politics while getting a taste of
Senegalese food. 6_8 pm, 240 Union South. Sponsored by International
Student Services, the African Studies Program and the Global
Connections Committee of the Wisconsin Union Directorate.
October 10. Voices of Africa: Language, Literature and Cultural
Politics. ""Beads Talk: The Art of Listening to our Ancestry""
speaker: Professor Sonya Clark. 12 noon, 1418 Van Hise Hall.
October 15. Sandwich Seminar. Oral Traditions as Texts: The Moral of
the Story. Speaker: Sam O. Imbo, Associate Professor, Philosophy;
Director of the African American Program, Hamline University. 12
noon, 206 Ingraham Hall.
CONFERENCES (Visit: www.africa.wisc.edu/opportunities/conf/ )
Africa: The Forgotten Continent? Thursday, October 30th,2003 at
UW_Milwaukee Ball Room, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., 7:00_7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute for World Affairs (IWA)
The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) will host a conference to
celebrate its 20th anniversary. The conference''s theme is
""SANKOFA"" Looking Back, Moving Forward. The conference will take
place at the Dominican Retreat House, 7103 Old Dominion Drive,
McLean, Virginia, From October 10_12, 2003. For more information,
call (202)832_3412 or email: [log in to unmask] .
Twentieth Annual World Food Day Teleconference:"Collaboration or
Calamity: Africa in Peril."Thursday, October 16, 2003 Room 232, The
Pyle Center 11:00 a.m. __ 2:00 p.m. For further information, please
contact: International Agricultural Programs, UW_Madison, 240
Agricultural Hall, 608_262_1271.
The Department of African Languages and Literature, UW_Madison
invites you to the conference, "Toward an Africa without Borders:
Unification and Fundamental Change," to be held at the Memorial Union
at the University of Wisconsin_Madison from October 24 to 26, 2003.
For conference program, registration, travel and hotel information
please visit http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/Studconference.
New Paths to Peace: Integrated Approaches to Building Sustainable
Peace and Development.November 5_7, 2003 at the Hefter Center, 3271
N. Lake Drive, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. For more
information, please contact the UWM Peace Studies Program at:
[log in to unmask] 414_229_2221; Fax: 414_229_3859.
2003 Wharton African Business Forum. ""Re_inventing Business in
Africa: From Entrepreneurship to Corporations."" November 14_15, 2003
at The Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Visit: http://www.whartonglobalforum.com/africa/index.asp for more information.
The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution''s
African Student Symposium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at
Cape Town, South Africa December 27, 2003_January 17, 2004. For more
information, visit: www.iimcr.org
FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS (Visit: www.africa.wisc.edu/opportunities/fellow_gr )
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships and Grants
competitions 2003_2004.Information about ACLS and ACLS_administered
fellowship programs is available on the ACLS Web site at:
http://www.acls.org .
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Scholars in Residence
Program. Fellowship program. For more information write to
Scholars__in_Residence Program Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York 10037_1801.Tel:
212_491_2228 or visit the website at:
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scholars/index.html Deadline:
December 1, 2003 .
JOBS (Visit: www.africa.wisc.edu/opportunities/employment )
Communication officer for a regional women''s network based in
Nairobi, Kenya.http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=16834
Stanford University: Academic position. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/
Assistant Professor of Swahili and African Language Pedagogy and
Linguistics, Ohio
University.http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/dept/welcome.html
Human rights secretariat manager, Sierra Leone.
www.fpa.org/jobs_contact2423/jobs_contact_show.htm?doc_id=193227
Consultant for the International Foundation for Education and Self_Help, DRC.
www.fpa.org/jobs_contact2423/jobs_contact_show.htm?doc_id=193205
Program Manager Lutheran World Relief, Southern Africa.
http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=16982
HIV/AIDS publications advisor for Catholic Institute for
International Relations,
Zimbabwe.http://www.ciir.org/ciir.asp?section=jobs&page=story&id=796
Field Coordinator for the International Rescue Committee, Burundi.
http://www.fpa.org/jobs_contact2423/jobs_contact_show.htm?doc_id=193346
Coordinator COHRE (Center on Housing Rights and Evictions) Africa
Program, Ghana.http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=17302
Executive Director for Eastern African Sub_regional Support
Initiative for the Advancement of Women, Uganda.
http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=17303
Positions at Indiana University
Assistant Professor of African History (Area of Specialization:
Southern Africa)
Contact: Professor John Hanson, Chair, African History Search
Committee, Department of History, Indiana University, 1020 E.
Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington IN 47405_7103.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Area of
specialization: African literature). Send application to Africanist
Search Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana
University, 1020 E. Kirkwood, Bloomington, IN 47405. Deadline Nov. 1,
2003.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics/International Relations
(Area of specialization: African Politics). Send application to
African Politics Search, Jeffrey C. Isaac, Department Chair, Indiana
University Department of Political Science, Woodburn Hall 210, 1100
E. 7th St., Bloomington, IN 47405_7110; Fax: (812)855_2027. Deadline:
October 15, 2003. For more information, please contact Kristi Brand
at (812)855_1209; email: [log in to unmask] .
OTHER
PANAFRICA Dance Party, Saturday, October 11 at 10 pm at Luther's
French Quarter Café, 1401 University Ave.
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