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AFR Faculty, Janis Weeks, winner of Grand Challenges Exploration!

For more details visit:http://uoresearch.uoregon.edu/content/university-oregon-receives-grand-challenges-explorations-grant-groundbreaking-research-globa

African Studies Lecture Series event this Wednesday, February 27, from 4-5.30 pm in the Knight Browsing Room. Dr. Amadou Fofana from Willamette University will be presenting “The Representation of Women in the Films of Ousmane Sembene.”

For more details visit:http://africa.uoregon.edu/category/events/african-studies-lecture-series-2012-2013

Heroes of HIV: volunteer AIDS caregivers, food insecurity, and mental health in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dr. Kenneth Maes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Friday, March 1st at 4 pm in Condon 204

Lisa Gilman named Fulbright Scholar. She is one of five University of Oregon faculty named this year.

For full article: http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/11/five-university-oregon-faculty-members-named-fulbright-scholars

This Friday, November 9th, from 12-1.30 pm in the Knight Browsing Room we will have the third talk in this year’s African Studies Lecture Series. Dr. Jamie Monson (Macalester College) will present ” China-Africa Development and the Other Cold War: Stories from the TAZARA Railway Project.”

The African Studies Lecture Series starts this Wednesday, October 17, 4-5.30 pm in the Knight Browsing Room. Our speaker is Dr. China Scherz, Department of Anthropology, Reed College. Her talk is titled, “Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda.”

For more info on this and other lectures in the series see the Fall poster. African Studies Lecture Series Poster- Fall 2012

Dance Africa Celebrate 20 Years

For fall events see: guests fall 2012-2

Article on Stephen Wooten, during his recent time in Mali

To read:http://www.oregonquarterly.com

/autumn2012/upfront.php#mali

Leslie Steeves “The One Laptop per Child Project in Ghana”

CSWS Noon Talk. May 30, Noon – 1 pm, 330 Hendricks

Stephen Wooten Interviewed on KLCC about Coup in Mali

To listen: http://www.klcc.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=3305

Lisa Gilman wins Fulbright Award!

Prof. Gilman, Assoc. Prof. of English & Folklore, will teach and research in Malawi for her new book Our Culture is Dying: Dance and the Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malawi, from 2012-’13.

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The African Studies Program encourages teaching and scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and the wider African diaspora. The program offers a minor, develops courses related to Africa, promotes study-abroad programs and internships, raises funds to expand African Studies resources, and organizes campus and local community events pertaining to Africa. In addition, the program supports faculty and student research on Africa and facilitates dissemination of research through the African Studies Lecture Series, for faculty and guest presentations, and the Acacia Seminars, for presentations of student research and experiences.

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