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Tuesday, 07 February 2023


 
Eye on Africa
African Tea Time
Featured News
Events & Opportunities
Core Faculty Highlights
Student Groups & Activities
Digital Africa @ MSU
Learn a Language
Jobs
Center Funding Opportunities

Eye on Africa

February 9th, 2023

Jesús Carabalí
The struggles of the Afro Movement in Colombia
Event Flyer

African Tea Time 

March 2nd, 2023
 
Ethiopia & Ghana
Research and Innovation in African Universities I: A focus on Ghana and Ethiopia
 

Featured News

Highlighting Digital Collections
Our recently updated ASC Newsletter includes a section titled Digital Africa @ MSU. Here you can browse some of the many Africa related multimedia collections and digital repositories that are available at MSU. The Digital Africa @ MSU section contains audio, video, photography, documents, posters, buttons, and many more fascinating collections for you to browse. This list is just the beginning and we hope you send along your suggestions. Our aim is to help direct students, faculty, staff, scholars, and anyone interested to the substantive collections MSU has to offer. We hope you enjoy browsing through the collections! 

Events & Opportunities

Malcolm and Ann Kerr Muslim Studies Community Lecture
February 08, 2023

The Michigan State University Muslim Studies Program presents the 2nd Annual Malcolm and Ann Kerr Muslim Studies Community Lecture, Tracking Women’s Works and Lives in the Middle East A Personal Journey, featuring Judith Tucker, distinguished professor emerita of History and Middle East Studies at Georgetown University, former editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and former president of the Middle East Studies Association. The event is cosponsored by the African Studies Center; Asian Studies Center; Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Center for Gender in Global Context; and Department of History. February 8, 2023 7:00-8:30pm EST 303 International Center (open to the public)Register for the Livestream

FLAS Applications Due
Deadline: February 15, 2023

FLAS Fellowships are awarded to students enrolled in a program that combines the study of a modern foreign language with advanced training in international development studies or in the international development aspects of professional or other fields of study. More Information

 
Muslim Studies Program 16th Annual Conference
February 23, 2023

Muslim Studies Program 16th Annual Conference Michigan State University Hybrid format: 303 International Center and Online Thursday, February 23, 2023. Theme: "Measuring Muslim Publics". More Information


Claffey Meyer International Travel Grant
DeadlineMarch 01, 2023

This award provides financial assistance to domestic students who intend to travel to developing countries for the purpose of providing technical assistance, participate in research, or engage in service. The intent is for students to work towards discovering and implementing solutions in response to urgent human needs (for example: food security, environmental quality, health and nutrition, education, and other areas) and, thereby, to encourage careers in international development teaching, research and practice. Grants are intended to support travel, related living expenses, and projects costs—not to be used as a tuition scholarship. Open to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students; Multiple scholarships will be given in 2023; Award amounts will vary, but will be no less than $2,000. More Information


Dr. Charles and Marjorie Gliozzo Dissertation Research Scholarship
DeadlineMarch 01, 2023

This scholarship is available to MSU doctoral students with dissertation research objectives who have defended, or are in the process of defending, a dissertation proposal. The scholarship supports field research abroad in support of the student's dissertation. More Information


Walker Hill Scholarship
DeadlineMarch 01, 2023

The Walker Hill International Award is available to MSU doctoral students to be used for pre-dissertation visits to a doctoral research site in a country outside the United States (for international students, research in one's own country does not qualify). The student must have completed adequate credits and be able to submit a description, appropriateness and feasibility of pre-dissertation research objectives to be accomplished during the period spent abroad. More Information

Core Faculty Highlights

Student Groups & Activities

African Student Union
The African Students Union is an innovative student organization at Michigan State University born out in a grand mission of preparing future leaders that will serve the African continent and help relieve it from the socio-political and economic crises that ravaged its member states for a period of more than 300 years.
 
Want more information on how to get involved?
Contact Dr. Damaris Choti at chotid@msu.edu.

Digital Africa @ MSU

Archive of Malian Photography
Digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali
amp.matrix.msu.edu
Overcoming Apartheidafripod logo
First-hand accounts of this important political movement
overcomingapartheid.msu.edu

Afripodafripod logo
Podcast about African history, culture and politics
afripod.aodl.org

African Activist Archive Project aaap logo
Documents, photographs, artifacts, written and oral memories
africanactivist.msu.edu

African Online Digital Library
aodl logoFree universal access to cultural heritage materials
aodl.org

Africana Collectionmsu library logo
African Studies at the MSU Library
libguides.lib.msu.edu/africa

Exploring Africaexploring africa logo
High quality African resources for students and educators
exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu

Learn a language!

Jobs

 
Have suggestions or a job to highlight?
Email us at africa@msu.edu.

Center Funding Opportunities

Curriculum Development Grants ($3,000 summer stipends): to support faculty interested in developing a new course or seminar related to Africa or revising an extant course or seminar to include at least 25% of Africa content.

Curriculum Enhancement Grants ($1,000): for purchase of Africa related curricular materials, payment of guest speakers.

Conference Travel Grants ($1,000): to support Africanist Faculty for conference expenses.

Special Programming Grants (amount varies): to bring a guest speaker; host a panel discussion; plan a social event etc.

Strategic Partnership Grants (amount varies): to strengthen strategic partnerships with universities and other institutions of higher education and research in Africa. (a 20% matching funds from applicants' deans or department chairpersons is required).


 
For more information about Center Funding: 
Contact Dr. Awa Sarr at
sarrawa@msu.edu
 


Global IDEAS: Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship curates external funding opportunities for international research from a comprehensive suite of sources, along with our knowledge of the donor landscape. These opportunities are compiled in one weekly email newsletter, available only to MSU faculty, staff and students.


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