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African language instructors meeting
Wakanda & the Future of Afrofuturism
The African Cultural Studies Student’s Association invites you to join us in conversing about trending topics in African Studies and ways to carry our research interests beyond the classroom. Each conversation will begin with a …
The Second Half-Century of African Languages & Culture Scholarship and Instruction at UW Madison
Four years ago, the then Department of African Languages & Literature convened a lively retrospective assessment of the first half-century of African languages and literature instruction at UW Madison, and in part, explored new directions …
Ululation
A lecture by Louise Meintjes, Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University Ululation is a sound of the South. Considering its technique, sound and social practice in Zulu ngoma performance, Meintjes takes ululation …
Live the Arabic Language!
Join us to learn more about Arabic and UW-Madison’s Arabic programs: the Arabic language program in the Department of African Cultural Studies, the Arabic language house, the summer Arabic program (APTLII), and the Middle East …
Adeola Agoke Awarded NFMLTA Dissertation Grant
PhD student Adeola Agoke was awarded a National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) Dissertation Grant. This award helps support graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics and language education at the dissertation …
Sanuth publishes on Yoruba study abroad
Congratulations to MA alum Kazeem Sanuth, who recently published an article, “Navigating between a Monolingual Utopia and Translingual Realities: Experiences of American Learners of Yorùbá as an Additional Language” (co-authored with Junko Mori) in the …