“Congo to the Mississippi”: Recent Socially Conscious Music from Africa and the Americas http://publici.ucimc.org/2021/02/congo-to-the-mississippi-recent-socially-conscious-music-from-africa-and-the-americas/- Professor Matthew S. Winters (U of I Dept of Political Science) coedited a special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development with Rob Blair (Brown University). The issue was titled "Foreign Aid, Service Delivery, and State-Society Relations in the Developing World" (...
Professor Valerie Hoffman (U of I Dept. of Religion) writes that she is was in Ghardaia, the main town of the Wadi Mzab in Algeria. The Wadi Mzab, a desert valley 375 miles south of Algiers, is one of the few places in the world where most of the Muslims belong to the Ibadi sect. She arrived February 2 and stayed until February 16. Then She went to Tunisia, where the island of Djerba was also a...- Professor Ken Cuno (U of I Dept. of History) published “Ismāʿīl Pasha,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. He was nominated for the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. (The award ceremony is delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic.) During a spring sabbatical and over the summer, he finished an article and two more chapters of a short history of Egypt and...
- Summer Arabic Study Application to Qatar Foundation International will receive funding for the amount of $32,535.00. The money will be used to support a Summer Intensive Arabic Course for High School Students here at UIUC. This is a two-week residential program which will happen concurrently with SILMW (Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World).
The city of Timbuktu in Mali epitomizes the intellectual vibrancy of African Muslim societies. These lectures explore past and contemporary aspects of Islamic Africa. The attached flyer can be found here.- Global South Languages Fellowships Global South Languages Fellowship The Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, through support from the Provost Office, are proud to announce a call for applications for the Global South...
Laila Hussein Moustafa, distinguished assistant professor at the University Library has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning. She was recommended by the Peer Review Panel for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of three years starting this winter. The ...- Matthew Winters (Political Science) presented his collaborative research with Kate Baldwin (Yale University) at a Workshop on Pioneering Development Research Using Geospatial Data run by AidData at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. The research studies how Ugandans react to information about foreign-funded, NGO-implemented development...
Professor Mauro Nobili has been awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $149,742 for his research project titled, "Restoring the African Past: A Synoptic Edition and Translation of Two West African Arabic Chronicles (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)." This project includes preparation for print publication of a synoptic edition and English...- Click here to view the W.E.B. DuBois Lecture with Dr.Allan Boesak, part of the 2018 Symposium on Teaching Transitional Justice. tgitler@illinois.edu
- To: Chancellor Jones, Provost Cangellaris, LAS Dean Hu, LAS Associate Dean Tewksbury, Graduate College Dean Chodzko-Zajko RE: Center for African Studies’ Support For Graduate Employees Organization The Center for African Studies writes to express our support for the Graduate Employees’ Organization in their bargaining efforts towards a fair contract with the...
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- https://illinois.edu/lb/files/2017/03/28/61329.JPG In partnership with the Center for African Studies, through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI Program, Krannert Center welcomes Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited for a performance at Stage 5 in the central Lobby. The performance will be accompanied by...
