Post Tagged with: "African Studies"

Sana Saidykhan, doctoral student in the History Department, recently secured a research grant jointly administered by The Gambia’s National Centre for Arts and Culture and Germany’s The Gerda Henkel Foundation. Saidykhan plans to use the funds, totaling 2,500 euros, to support his preliminary dissertation research in The Gambia this summer. Provisionally […]

The War and Peace theme is organizing a lecture by Hilary Matfess on Oct. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Bentley Hall 306. The lecture is co-sponsored by International Development Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and African Studies. Matfess is a prominent expert on Boko Haram and women. She is […]

Sana Saidykhan, an M.A. student in the History Department, was named a 2017 recipient of the Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award. The award includes airline tickets between the United States and any Royal Air Maroc (RAM) destination in Africa, and recognizes “outstanding scholarship by future African studies scholars.” Saidykhan is utilizing the […]

On Jan. 25, creative writing doctoral student Michelle Pretorius will be the featured speaker in the Africa@OHIO Colloquium series. Pretorius’s talk is from noon until 1 p.m. in Baker 231. The series, which gives OHIO students, faculty, and invited scholars a forum in which to share their Africa-focused work, is […]

On Monday, Nov. 21, a panel discussion on India’s Partition took place to mark the publication of Professor Amritjit Singh’s co-edited volume, India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books). Panelists included Singh, Professor Ghirmai Negash, and Professor Brian Collins. Singh is the Langston Hughes Professor of […]

In line with the Wealth and Poverty theme’s commitment to explore inequality at home and abroad, faculty have organized a field trip focused on African immigrant communities in Columbus, OH, on Saturday, March 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The field trip is free and open to all Ohio […]

The Center for International Studies hosts an open house on Friday, Nov. 13, from 1 to 3 p.m., in the Yamada 009 Classroom. This is an opportunity for students to learn about the five graduate programs that the center offers: African Studies, Asian Studies, Communication and Development Studies, International Development […]