African Studies Program

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Adrien Wing

Dean Adrien K. Wing joined the University of Iowa Law school faculty in 1987, and is the Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor. Wing also serves as the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs and is Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. Author of over 140 publications, she teaches Critical Race Theory, Sex Discrimination, and Law in the Muslim World. Her many activities include advising the founding mothers and fathers of three constitutions. She holds her Bachelor’s degree from Princeton with high honors, MA degree from UCLA in African Studies, and her JD from Stanford.
Sujatha Sosale

Sujatha Sosale

Sujatha Sosale is interested in media development and social change in Global South countries, with a focus on South Asia and the southern Indian Ocean region. She has published in the areas of news and public affairs reporting about contemporary development, trade agreements in the news, national identity and news discourse at critical historical junctures, the political economy of the development of media technologies in colonial contexts, and media technology use in contemporary urban contexts. Her current research examines the use of mobile technologies in a remote rural region in South India.

ASP to host talk on the Republican Brotherhood in Sudan and Iowa City

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
The African Studies Program and the Office of Outreach and Engagement invite you to attend a talk from Ohio University Professor Steve Howard entitled "My Daughters are My Writings: the Republican Brotherhood in Sudan and Iowa City." This event will take place on Friday, February 15, 2019 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum.  

African Studies to host talk on the politics of land in Zimbabwe

Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The African Studies Program invites you to a Baraza/GHS Forum talk by Admire Mseba, "The Cultural Politics of Land and the Power of Chiefs in Northeastern Zimbabwe from Precolonial Times to the 1930s." This event will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2019, from 4-5:30 p.m. in 302 Schaeffer Hall.

African Studies Program to host roundtable discussion with IWP residents, Oct. 18

Friday, September 29, 2017
The African Studies Program invites you to attend their first event of the semester, "A Roundtable with the 2017 IWP Residents from Africa." This event will take place on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 from 12-1:30 p.m. in 2390 UCC (University Capitol Centre).

African Studies Program hosts April 11 talk on ethnographic research in Tanzania

Tuesday, April 4, 2017
UI International Programs and the African Studies Program invite you to attend an upcoming event titled "Conservation and Conversation: Ethnographic Research in a Biodiversity Hotspot in Tanzania." Featuring guest speaker Jessica Pouchet from Northwestern University, this event will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, from 11 a.m. -12:15 p.m. in 60 Schaeffer Hall. 

African Studies Program hosts April 3 talk on privilege and integrity

Friday, March 17, 2017
UI International Programs and the African Studies Program invite you to attend an upcoming event titled “Privilege, Self-Respect and Integrity.” Featuring guest speaker Samantha Vice is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), this event will take place on Monday, April 3, 2017, from 3:30-5 p.m. in 304 EPB (Gerber Lounge). 

African Studies Program hosts Mar. 31 talk on free jazz

Friday, March 17, 2017
UI International Programs and the African Studies Program invite you to attend an upcoming event titled "Vandalism: On the Limits of Free Jazz." Featuring guest speaker Michael Titlestad, professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, this event will take place on Friday, March 31, 2017, from 3:30-5 p.m. in 304 EPB (Gerber Lounge). 

African Studies Program hosts Mar. 22 talk on migrants, marriage, and national belonging in South Africa

Friday, February 24, 2017
UI International Programs and the African Studies Program invite you to attend an upcoming event titled "They come to take our women and our jobs: Migrants, marriage, and national belonging in South Africa." Featuring guest speaker Brady G'sell, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and history, University of Michigan, this event will take place on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, from 12-1:30 p.m. in 1117 University Capitol Centre (UCC). 

African Studies Program hosts March 7 discussion on land rights and electoral violence in Kenya

Friday, February 24, 2017
The African Studies Program invites you to attend an upcoming event, titled "Claiming Land: Institutions, Narratives, and Political Violence in Kenya." This event will take place on Tuesday, March 7, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in 2520D University Capitol Centre in room 2520D. 

African Studies Program to host conversation with International Writing Program residents, Oct. 19

Monday, October 10, 2016
The African Studies Program invites you to attend their first event of the semester, titled "Writing Lives in Africa: A Conversation with Visiting African Writers ." This event will take place on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 from 12:30-1:20 p.m. in 302 Schaeffer Hall.

African Studies Program to discuss dockworkers and the struggle against apartheid, April 27

Friday, April 22, 2016
UI International Programs and the African Studies Program invite you to attend an upcoming baraza titled, "Durban Dockworkers and the Struggle against Apartheid." Featuring guest speaker Peter Cole, this event will take place on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, from 12-1:30 p.m. in 1117 UCC.