African Film Festival
After two years of pandemic-related cancellations or virtual screenings, we are proud to welcome the African Film Festival (AFF) back to BAMPFA. More information is here: https://bampfa.org/program/african-film-festival
Beginning in 2019, the Center for African Studies and Le Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix (CERAP) at Universite Jesuite in Abidjan have partnered on a Carnegie-funded project in Côte d’Ivoire, Documenting Violence and Promoting Peace in Africa: A Pilot Study for Data Collection in a Conflict-Affected Country.
Dr. Nana Adusei-Poku is joining the History of Art Department as an assistant professor in African Diasporic art history this Fall ’22 and Dr. Zamansele Nsele will join as an assistant professor in Spring ’23.
The inaugural event for the Association of Postcolonial Thought, this symposium brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary body of scholars, drawing from anticolonial solidarities and epistemologies of decolonization, to build a transformative vision of postcolonial studies today. The event is free and open to the public, and no advance registration is required.
The inaugural event for the Association of Postcolonial Thought, this symposium brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary body of scholars, drawing from anticolonial solidarities and epistemologies of decolonization, to build a transformative vision of postcolonial studies today. The event is free and open to the public, and no advance registration is required.
Monday and Tuesday, June 28-29, 2021
Virtual on Zoom
Every semester, UC Berkeley offers many new courses. The Amharic language course offered this spring is especially noteworthy. Except for a brief pilot program in 2006, this is the first semester students are able to take a course in Amharic, one of the languages of Ethiopia, which is spoken by nearly 26 million people worldwide. The course, which only opened for enrollment the week before the spring semester, was nearly full by the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, just before classes started.
Ivy Mills offers a new course on African Aesthetics in the History of Art (190M) in Spring 2018.
Kaitlyn Gaynor, ESPM PhD Student was a Rocca Dissertation Fellow in 2016.
My dissertation research, supported by the CAS Rocca fellowship, examines the interactions between people and wildlife in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. After decades of war, Gorongosa’s human and animal populations are recovering and rediscovering how to coexist in a changing landscape. My goal is to use science to inform management solutions for an ongoing restoration project in Gorongosa that promotes conservation and human development in the region.
Logman Arja sent us the following report after his September 2017 trip with Associate Professor Ronald Rael to Sudan.
Ivy Mills (Ph.D African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley) will offer a new course, History of Art 192M Urban Africa, in the fall of 2017.
The Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Berkeley welcomes the Young African Leaders Initiative Washington Fellows for six weeks of intensive study on civic leadership.
47th Annual Conference on African Languages comes to UC Berkeley!
More information here.
