Museum Nights: Arts Across Africa On February 13, the Harn Museum will host its annual Museum Nights: Arts Across Africa event. Museum Nights is a free public program with a large attendance from 6 to 9 pm. The Museum Night celebrates African culture with art, music, dance, and most importantly…you. We are looking for students […]
Africa’s health landscape is shaped by a complex interplay of physical, mental, social, environmental, and systemic factors. Effectively addressing these challenges requires interdisciplinary research drawing from public health, medicine, social sciences, environmental sciences, arts, humanities, and other fields. This panel will showcase graduate student research addressing diverse health issues in African contexts. Presentations will explore […]
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Week of Nov 18-22, 2024 (exact date and time to be confirmed) Location: Grinter Hall Room 404 Africa’s environment, central to the lives and livelihoods of its peoples, is changing at an unprecedented pace. The continent’s water, land and air are affected by climate change, pollution and population growth in ways that threaten basic needs […]
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For over 30 years the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida has organized annual lectures or a conference in honor of the late distinguished Africanist scholar, Gwendolen M. Carter. Gwendolen Carter devoted her career to scholarship and advocacy concerning the politics of inequality and injustice, especially in southern Africa.
The Center of African Studies relies on the support of alumni and friends to provide the best possible learning and research environment for students and faculty. Donate to the Center for African Studies now through Thursday, February 16 Center for African Studies Fund Alumni & Faculty Pre-dissertation Travel Award Fund Donate […]
Fall 2022 Arts | Africa Working Group October 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Recorded Zoom Link:
Keynote Speakers Carter Lectures 21.1 with Funmi Adewole, De Montfort University October 1 Dr. Adewole was honored with the Dance of the African Diaspora Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 Carter Lectures 21.2: Back to the Future: Choreographers Mobilizing Africa-sourced Futures in the (post)COVID Era. October 22 Faustin Linyekula tells stories through writing, theatre, dance, still or moving images. […]
Archived Events 2018: Islam Africa Symposium: Muslim Minorities in Islamic Africa: Religious Freedom, Human Rights, and Geopolitics in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic 2015: Symposium – Sufism in Africa: Adapting to New Realities, Speakers: Benjamin Soares, Felicitas Becker, Marie Natalie LeBlanc, Joseph Hill Archived Activities Meetings Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Previous programs Symposiums 2014: The African Madrassa: […]
Past Research Workshops and Events Since its inception in 2015, the group has held two research workshops, with a third to be held in April; 2019, assembling scholars working on the topic from Africa, China, Europe, North America and the United Kingdom. The Working Group’s themes have tackled the major issues in the relationship between […]
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Exhibitions “Modest Architectures: Designing in East Africa,” College of Design Construction Planning Gallery “The Women’s Center Rufisque, Senegal,” College of Design Construction Planning Gallery “Drawings of Lalibela, Ethiopia,” College of Design Construction Planning Gallery
Past Lectures at the University of Florida Lecture & Workshop: “Learnt in Translation” with Architect Peter Rich, Johannesburg, South Africa Workshop: “Confronting the challenge of working in an African context” with Professor Donna Cohen, Design 8 Studio Lecture: “Step by Step: Building Schools in Africa” with Architect Diebedo Francis Kere, Burkina Faso/Germany Lecture: “Architecture and Urbanism in […]
Social Change & Development in Africa SCDA | Contact | Symposium | Past Meetings Social Change and Development in Africa (SCAD) webpage. To read recaps of recent Social Change and Development in Africa Working Group events, please click here. Contact: Professor Marit Østebø marit.ostebo@ufl.edu SCDA Working Group The Social Change and Development in Africa working group’s overall […]
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