Muslim West Africa’s ‘Core Curriculum’ Explained, Explored and Redefined: A Conference in Honor of Charles C. Stewart was organized jointly by the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Islamic Manuscript Association. It took place September 19-20, 2024 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dinah Lawan (UC Berkeley) and Mathew Ayodele (Stanford) win the top two paper prizes for the 2024 West Coast Regional Conference competition.
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The Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a fulltime tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology with an expected start date of July 1, 2025. For more information about the position, go to https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04491. The deadline to apply is September 20, 2024. Please direct questions to Marié Abe, Committee Chair, at marie.abe@berkeley.edu.
In this post, the Department of Music recognizes Jocelyne Guilbault, Ethnomusicology Professor in the Department of Music. With a focus on traditional and popular music from the French Creole- and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, Dr. Guilbault was also a great advocate for those studying African music.
Carlos Mureithi always loved writing. He wanted to become a professional writer so that he could tell important stories. In high school he regularly wrote letters to the editor of The Standard, one of Keyna’s largest newspapers, and he decided that he wanted to pursue journalism.
William Carter, Geography PhD student and Rocca PreDissertation Fellow, studies centuries-old slave ship logs whose text was scrawled in nearly indecipherable cursive. Carter, who has dyslexia, has those logs translated into digital text, which he can then listen to using screen reader tools. "We're reconstructing history here," William Carter said of his geography Ph.D. research and collaboration with UC Berkeley's Disabled Students' Program.
Nicholas Newman (MPP, 2024) conducted field research in the Pita and Labé prefectures of the Fouta Djallon in Guinea in partnership with a large rural farmer’s union. The stories shared by farmers made clear the importance of the relationship between land, debt, and social reproduction.
The first time I scheduled a meeting with Linus Unah, a UC Berkeley alumnus with the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, the meeting had to be rescheduled as Unah raced off to lead a small crew in filming the rescue of a manatee about to be sold.
The International House at UC Berkeley is commemorating Black History Month through a YouTube video series. In consists of clips from residents, including many Mastercard Foundation Scholars, as well as alumni interviews by Scholar and I-House Global Community Ambassador, Excellence Joshua. More videos are added to the playlist throughout the month of February.
UC Berkeley students who join the Summer 2024 study abroad program "Pan Afrikan Social Movements: Past, Present and Future" in Ghana will receive a $1,000 scholarship! Deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.
Rocca and FLAS fellowship recipient, Annelise Gill-Wiehl’s conducts research on the affect of efficient cookstoves in Tanzania. Gill-Wiehl, Daniel Kammen, and Kathrine Lau’s findings share that these cookstoves are “overestimated” in their carbon saving credit.
Misbath Dauda joined the School of Public Health in January 2024. She is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences whose interdisciplinary research focuses on the health equity implications of climate mitigation strategies in the US and in West Africa.
Trial access to the Africa Commons digital archival collections, produced by Coherent Digital, is available until January 31st. This resource provides access to books, magazines, newspapers, government documents, manuscripts, photographs, videos, and oral histories related to African history and culture. Africa Commons is a project which aims to enable Africa to easily control, digitize, and disseminate its cultural heritage–within Africa, and internationally.
Studying a language is an immediate way to immerse oneself in African knowledge systems.
