2024-12-05
- Undergraduate Students
The African Connections Program (ACP) scholarship for a 2-week study abroad in Kenya, May 2025. Now in its third year, ACP scholarships provide full funding for undergrads for a two-week study abroad to Nairobi, Kenya. Students will be hosted at the United States International University in Nairobi, visiting historical and urban social justice sites, with...
2024-12-04 - The 2024 Timbuktu Talks series continues with a compelling lecture titled "Between Progress and Regression: The Arabo-Islamic Instructor in the Senegalese Countryside." The talk will be delivered by Prof. Djim Dramé of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire at Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal. Scheduled for December 10, 2024, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, the event will take...
2024-12-04 - The Center for African Studies invites everyone to an exciting end-of-semester celebration on December 10 at 4:00 PM at the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (BNAACC), located at 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL. This event promises a vibrant showcase of Swahili and Wolof cultures through music, dance, and community engagement. It's a perfect opportunity to explore Sub-Saharan...
2024-11-21 - Apply for the Morocco Travel Grant JUNE 16 - 30, 2025 Program Details: https://geeo.org/tour/morocco-uillinois/ Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUFGB7TXo0ubZFsCZ07WKchlocmyBR55DK3O48YtqfF_3wRQ/viewform ALL K-16 EDUCATORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY FOR THIS EXCITING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
2024-11-18 - Join Spring 2025 International Model African Union Conference, Washington DC - INFO SESSION on November 20 @ Coble Hall Room 306 12:00 -1:00 PM All UIUC undergraduate students are welcome For more information contact Vieux Toure: toure2@illinois.edu
2024-11-18 - Dear CAS Friends and Affiliates: After a busy Fall semester of 2024, CAS is looking ahead to spring 2025! We invite you to send us your idea for a Brown Bag talk. They occur in a semi-formal and supportive setting where speakers share Africa-related research and projects with faculty, students, and the public. This is often a work in progress! Typically, the presenter speaks for 30 to 40...
2024-11-08 - Please join the Humane Urbanisms Project collab including Ken Salo & Faranak Miraftab - Urban and Regional Planning UIUC Janine Lange & Siviwe Madoda - Tshishimani Center for Activist Education, Cape Town, South Africa Greg Ruiters & Fundiswa Khaile - School of Government at University of Western Cape, South Africa 13 November 2024 12:30-1:30 PM 306 Coble Hall
2024-10-17 - October 29 - 30 International Speakers from Iraq, Tunisia, USA, Mauritania and Egypt. Conversations on cultures, heritage, and histories with: Dr. Thawrah Yosif Dr. Amir Al-Azraki Dr. Maha Abdelhamid Anthony Karakh Browder Dr. Monica Hanna Dr. Khaled Esseissah This is a hybrid program – Register...
2024-10-16 - Speaker: Emilie Songolo (MIT Libraries) African commemorative textiles are a social leveler that adds considerably to the knowledge ecosystem, conveying information through graphics, cultural symbols, and text. They also embody communities often excluded from traditionally published literature. As these unique African resources are acquired by libraries & archives, we must...
2024-10-14 - In 1879, Sayyid Barghash of Zanzibar sent an expedition to explore a route from Mozambique to Lake Nyasa, led in part by Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Amawi. Al-Amawi, a prominent Sufi scholar and judge, chronicled the journey, providing a rare, non-European perspective on the region and Zanzibar’s mainland ambitions. His manuscripts, recently discovered in Oman...
2024-09-05 - Eric P. Whitaker | Careers in Foreign Service | At the Career Center | 9.6.24 at 1pm
2024-09-05 - Eric P. Whitaker | A Peace Corps Journey | At the Career Center | 9.6.24 at 2.30pm
2024-02-29 - On February 21, 2024, for this Black History Month, Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, through his lecture, provided an Africana studies perspective on the Gaza-Israel war and explored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy in relation to this issue, with the goal of raising awareness. Dr. Robin D.G. Kelly, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of...
2023-05-22 - CAS is delighted to announce that two UIUC undergraduate students, Emily Brooks, and Nina Stepaniants, have been awarded tuition scholarships for 2023-24. These scholarships are possible through the generous support of UIUC alumnus Ambassador Eric Whitaker, and this will be the third year of the program. Emily and Nina will be third-year students in 2023-24;...