Department website under development

Submitted by ckharwood on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 21:33

Department students, staff, and faculty of the Community Relations Committee are hard at work on the website you see before you. We welcome your comments and suggestions as the site develops!

Students respond to the passing of Chinua Achebe

Submitted by ckharwood on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 15:31 
The following obituary was written by Sami Alkyam, a Ph.D. Candidate in our department and a preceptor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard University:

The Death of the Novelist

I was deeply saddened to learn two days ago that Chinua Achebe, the writer of Things Fall Apart passed away. This specific book, in my assessment, is one of the 20th century's most insightful works about power dynamics. Born in Nigeria, Achebe's views on colonialism and its “Civilizing Mission” were nuanced and multifaceted but we will be unfair and simplistic if we render his writing to this theme. . .

Graduate Students and Instructors Bring African Languages to High School Students at the 2013 Wisconsin Global Youth Summit

Submitted by ckharwood on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 17:26
Bongani Mbatha teaching Zulu to high school students at the 2013 Wisconsin Global Youth Summit

Graduate Students Samuel Darkwa (Akan-Twi), Bongani Mbatha (Zulu), and Faculty Associate Anne Waliaula (Swahili) facilitated introductory language lessons for Wisconsin high school students attending this year's Wisconsin Global Youth Summit (Facebook). Eighty students from 20 schools across the state traveled to Union South to discuss global education and to plan an ongoing initiative for Global Studies outreach and advocacy.

Welcome

Submitted by jnimis on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 15:17

A group photo from the Department picnic, fall 2012.

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