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Institute for K-8 Teachers: The Sustainable Development Goals

Friday, September 18, 2020

Through a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, participants will learn how today’s pressing global challenges are experienced in local communities around the world. Teachers will build knowledge and skills to infuse their classrooms with global content and perspectives, fostering student-led, project-based, solutions driven, standards-aligned teaching and learning. For more information and to register, visit http://bit.ly/IU-Workshop or email Vesna Dimitrieska at Vdimitri@indiana.edu sdgs fall institute flyer

New Summer Swahili Program for Middle & High School Students

Monday, May 4, 2020

ASP is offering the IU Swahili Program virtually this summer. The non-cost program is open to interested Middle and High School Students. Please contact Tavy Aherne (taherne@indiana.edu) for more details.

ASP Spring Student Awards Ceremony Goes Virtual

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Join us for a virtual ASP Spring Student Awards Ceremony, where we will recognize our Summer FLAS fellows, our volunteers, the graduating senior of the year, and recognize this year’s Hodge winner! See our Events page or the Friday Events Bulletin for further details and zoom link.

African Languages Festival – canceled

Thursday, April 2, 2020

For the safety of our students and faculty, we regret to announce that we will be cancelling our spring African Languages Festival. We will miss seeing all of our students’ growth in their languages and the showcasing of their talents. We hope to be back together again next year.

Announcing GSAS 2020 Symposium

Friday, January 10, 2020

This year’s Graduate Students in African Studies (GSAS) Annual Symposium will be in April. The theme is “African Space and Mind: Progress and Challenges in the 21^st Century.” For more information, please contact Samantha Hyde (samhyde@iu.edu).

Dr. Maria Grosz-Ngaté Delivers 2019 ASA Presidential Address

Saturday, November 23, 2019

On November 22, former associate director of the IU African Studies Program, Maria Grosz-Ngaté, delivered the 2019 ASA Presidential Lecture “Knowledge and Power: Perspectives on the Production and Decolonization of African/ist Knowledges” at the annual African Studies Association meeting in Boston.

ASA Service Award Presented to John Hanson

Friday, November 22, 2019

At the 62^nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Boston, John Hanson, director of the IU African Studies Program and Professor of History, received the 2019 ASA Service Award. He accepted the award together with his colleagues Jan Jansen (Leiden University), Dmitri van den Bersselaar (University of Leipzig), and Michael Doortmont (Leiden University).

African Studies Program and the University of Bayreuth’s “Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence Grant

Friday, November 1, 2019

Indiana University’s African Studies Program is a “preferred partner” in a network of universities in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States associated with the University of Bayreuth’s seven-year Cluster of Excellence grant from the German Federal Government, awarded in 2019.

P.S. Vieyra: Pioneer of African Cinemas, Filmmaker, Producer and Historian Workshop

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

This fall, a two-day workshop was held focused on the work and legacy of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra. The workshop was organized by Vincent Bouchard (Associate Professor, French and Italian; African Studies affiliate faculty) and Terri Frances (Director, Black Film Center/Archive) with support from numerous entities at IU.

Religious Authority in Muslim Africa: Fragmentation & Plurality

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

The African Studies Program co-organized a workshop on the topic, “Religious Authority in Muslim Africa: Fragmentation and Plurality,” at the Indiana University European Gateway in Berlin from October 10-12, 2019. The initiative was led by John Hanson(African Studies Program) and Ron Sela (Islamic Studies Program), joined by Rüdiger Seesemann (University of Bayreuth) and Terje Østebø and Ben Soares (University of Florida).

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African Studies Program is pleased to welcome new M.A. students

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

The ASP is pleased to welcome our new MA students: Trevor Phipps, Ibrahim Odugbemi, Barakaeli Mbise, and Samantha Hyde (not shown)!

African Studies Program is pleased to welcome 2019-2020 Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Karibu –welcome- to Twalha Kassaisa, African Studies Program’s 2019-2020 Swahili Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant!

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2019 HLS Summer Institute

Monday, September 30, 2019

The African Studies Program, the Wright School of Education’s P-16 Center, and several other HLS areas studies centers recently hosted the 2019 HLS Summer Institute.

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Congratulations to this year’s cohort for the STARTALK Swahili summer language program

Monday, September 30, 2019

The African Studies Program congratulates this year’s cohort for the STARTALK Swahili summer language program!

Donation to ASP Outreach Collection

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Thank you to Jeffrey Holdeman (Senior Lecturer, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures; Director of the Global Living-Learning Center) who recently donated six beautifully embroidered men’s hats of West African origin. These will enrich the offerings of our ASP Outreach Lending Collection.

Donation to ASP Outreach Collection

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Thank you to Jeanne Sept (Professor Emeritus, Anthropology) who donated numerous objects from her years of research on the African continent to our ASP Outreach Lending Collection. Among the objects are textiles and clothing from West and East Africa; Kenyan objects of adornment, children’s toys. incense pots, hair combs, earth pigments, and even a giant ostrich egg! We have already begun utilizing the objects in our outreach to K-12 classrooms.

FLAS Awardees 2019-2020

Monday, September 2, 2019

Congratulations to this year’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) academic year fellows: Issac Agbetuyi (Yoruba); Erin Anderson (Arabic); Fashola Ayo-Igbala (Yoruba); Maggie FitzGerald (Zulu); Meghan Halaburda (Swahili); Marina Mecham (Zulu);Trevor Phipps (Kinyarwanda); Sydney Pleak (Zulu); Macy Richardson (Swahili); and, Caitlyn Wishmeyer (Swahili).

2019 ASP Pedagogy Awards

Monday, September 2, 2019

The 2019 ASP Pedagogy Awards were presented to Foluso Mary Okiebiorum, Victor Alabi, and Richard Nyamahanga. The award supports the conference participation to present research and undertake training at language pedagogy conferences.

Patrick O’Meara Awardees

Monday, September 2, 2019

This year’s Patrick O’Meara Travel Awards, in support of presentations at professional conferences, go to: Taiwo Ehinini (linguistics), Khalid Essassiah (History), and Sylvester Matete Makobi (Music in Literature & Performance). Congratulations, all!

2019 Outstanding ASP Graduate Student Named

Monday, September 2, 2019

Congratulations to this year’s ASP Carlton T. Hodge Prize winner, Sylvester Matete Makobi (ASP PhD Minor & PhD Candidate, Jacobs School of Music)! We thank Sylvester for his outstanding commitment to African Studies.

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Bloomington area school-aged children in grades K-6 will be able to learn introductory KiSwahili

Saturday, August 31, 2019

Bloomington area school-aged children in grades K-6 will be able to learn introductory KiSwahili through the award winning after-school program Bridges: Children, Languages, World.

Congratulations to Jenny Parker on her new appointment

Monday, August 26, 2019

Congratulations to Jenny Parker on her appointment as Director of the West Africa Research Association! Jenny is also completing an African Studies Program minor as a Ph.D. candidate in the IU Department of Anthropology. We wish her the best on her new endeavor in Boston, Massachusetts!

Alumna nominated for 2018 Herskovits Prize

Friday, August 23, 2019

IU ASP alumna Dr. Joanna Grabski (Art History) was nominated for the African Studies Association 2018 Herskovits Prize for her book, Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar (Indiana University Press). The annual award is for the best scholarly work on Africa, published in English, during the previous year.

IU Alumna will curate new exhibition at Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

Thursday, August 22, 2019

IU alumna Kathleen Bickford Berzock (Ph.D., Art History) will curate an exciting new exhibition at the Northwestern University Block Museum of Art: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. The exhibition runs January 26, 2019, through July 21, 2019.

The African Studies Program among 11 centers and programs to receive Title VI funding

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The African Studies Program is excited to be included among eleven international centers and programs in the IU School of Global and International Studies to receive Title VI funding. This is a record number of SGIS centers to receive funding totaling $18.8 million.

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