MSU Tuesday Bulletin, 01/30/07
THE TUESDAY BULLETIN
Issue No. 3 Spring 2007
January 30, 2007
Weekly News from the AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 100 INTERNATIONAL CENTER
EAST LANSING MI 48824-1035
For back issues, see archive <http://africa.msu.edu>
BULLETIN CONTENTS
EVENTS
MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS
FELLOWSHIPS
EVENTS
January 30, Tuesday
Hausa-table has moved to every Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Room 6
International Center. Contact Professor Ibro Chekaraou at 353-0746 or
e-mail: ichek@msu.edu for information.
February 1, Thursday
"The Rise and Fall of the Islamic Courts in Somalia," African Studies
Center Brown Bag talk with Lee Cassanelli, Faculty, (Univ. of
Pennsylvania), 12:00 noon, Room 201 International Center.
February 2, Friday
Swahili-table will meet every Friday, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., MSU Union (UB-Lake
Michigan Room). Contact Professor Aggrey Wasike at 353-4051 or e-mail
wasikeag@msu.edu for information.
February 8, Thursday
"Future Directions of MSU's African Studies Center I," African Studies
Center Brown Bag talk with MSU African Studies Center faculty (TBA), 12:00
noon, Room 201 International Center.
February 15, Thursday
"Future Directions of MSU's African Studies Center II," African Studies
Center Brown Bag talk with MSU African Studies Center faculty (TBA), 12:00
noon, Room 201 International Center.
February 16, Friday
"Tourism Development in Niger," CASID/WID Forum with Boulou Akano, (Hubert
H. Humphrey Fellow), 12:00 noon, Room 201 International Center.
February 22, Thursday
"Workers Culture in Two Nations: South Africa and the United States,"
African Studies Center Brown Bag talk with John Beck and Yvonne Lockwood,
MSU Faculty (respectively Labor & Industrial Relations and Traditional Arts
Program), 12:00 noon, MSU Museum Auditorium (note change of venue).
March 14-17, Thursday - Saturday
African Culture Week and Gala. More details coming at a later date. MARK
YOUR CALENDAR for the Gala which will be on Saturday evening, March 17,
2007 in the Pasant Theatre of the Wharton Center.
MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS
African Studies Center Application for Foreign
Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for 2007-08 AY
The African Studies Center at MSU is now accepting
on-line applications for FLAS fellowships for academic
year 2007-08 and for the 2007 Summer Cooperative
African Language Institute (SCALI). The FLAS
fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of
Education Title VI program for the study of African
languages and non-language courses on Africa. Up to
date information and on-line application forms are
available at: http://africa.msu.edu/FLAS/FLAS.htm.
Candidates must have completed application procedures
by February 15, 2007. Related application materials
are to be mailed to the Assistant Director of the African
Studies Center, 100 International Center, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1035; Phone: (517)
353-1700; Fax: (517) 432-1209; e-mail:
fisseha@msu.edu. In accordance with the Title VI
centers' agreement of rotating summer course offerings
under SCALI, African languages study in summer 2007
will be hosted by the University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. For details, please visit:
http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/SCALI07.htm for details.
2007 Compton Africa Peace Fellowships
Michigan State University's African Studies Center
(ASC) and Women and International Development
(WID) Program are offering Compton Africa Peace
Fellowships to graduate students from Sub-Saharan
Africa to support their dissertation field research in
Africa. This program is an element of the MSU African
Higher Education Partnerships Initiative (AHEPI).
These dissertation fellowship awards are made possible
by a grant from the Compton Foundation through its
Peace Fellowship Program for addressing peace,
conflict resolution, and security in Africa.
The goal of the Compton Fellowship Program in Peace
and Security is to strengthen intellectual capacity in
Sub-Saharan African nations and institutions that can
address the challenges of conflict resolution, peace, and
security issues intra- and internationally. The
fellowships will support exceptional Ph.D. degree
candidates at MSU from Sub-Saharan Africa who intend
to return to their country or region of origin after
completing their studies. A secondary goal is to promote
the integration of environment, peace, and/or population
issues in graduate-level study and research.
The Compton Foundation's peace and security program
focuses on a variety of activities and issue areas which
include: resolving and avoiding international and
regional conflict; reducing the threat from weapons of
mass destruction; and broadening the definition of
national security to include environmental and
population aspects.
For Information on eligible research topics, eligibility
requirements, and application forms please visit:
http://www.wid.msu.edu/forstudents/opportunities.htm
or http://africa.msu.edu/compton.php. Completed
application forms must be submitted by mail and e-
mail to: MSU-Compton Fellowship Committee, c/o
David Wiley, African Studies Center, 100 International
Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan 48824-1035; Tel: 517-353-1700; Fax: 517-
432-1209; e-mail: wiley@msu.edu. The application
deadline is March 16, 2007.
Explore Africa at MSU, June 17-23, 2007
Explore Africa at MSU is a residential program
designed for academically talented high school students
(entering grades 10, 11, and 12) who would like to
become immersed in learning about the tremendous
diversity found within the continent of Africa. This
program is a cooperative venture by the African Studies
Center and the Office of Gifted and Talented Education
at MSU.
Participants will attend daily language classes in
Swahili; participate in sessions on African literature;
develop self-selected projects on African topics;
participate in African music and dance, as well as assist
an African chef in making a traditional dinner.
For registration or other information, contact John
Metzler, (517) 353-1700; e-mail: metzler@msu.edu, url:
http://www.msu.edu/gifted/exploreafrica/exploreafrica.htm.
WID Working Papers - CFP
Michigan State University's Women and International
Development (WID) Program publishes Working Papers
on Women and International Development, a peer-
reviewed series examining the relationships between
gender and global transformation and exploring
processes of change, in the broadest sense. Presenting
new understandings of women's ever-changing
economic, social, and political positions, Working
Papers offer theoretically grounded analysis of empirical
research in order to contribute to existing literatures on
gender and international development.
The Working Papers series is currently accepting
manuscripts for review. With a focus on women and
gender in the global South, the Working Papers series
invites manuscripts that explore gender in relation to
historical and contemporary economic and political
spheres. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Gender, violence, and human rights
Gender and agriculture
Gender dimensions of globalization and transnationalism
Gender, health, and healthcare
Gender and environment
Gender and social movements
Masculinities and international development
Fertility and reproduction
Intra- and inter-family roles and relationships
If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to the
Working Papers series, please send a 150-word abstract
summarizing the paper's essential points and findings to:
Dr. Anne Ferguson, Editor, and Nidal Karim, Managing
Editor, at papers@msu.edu. If the abstract suggests your
paper is suitable for the Working Papers, the full paper
will be invited for peer review and publication consideration.
FELLOWSHIPS
Social Science Research Council - DPDF program
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to
announce the Dissertation Proposal Development
Fellowship (DPDF), a strategic fellowship program
designed to help graduate students in the humanities and
social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals
that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion
in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in
fellowship competitions. Funding for the program is
provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Graduate students apply to one of five research fields led
by two directors; each group is made up of ten to twelve
graduate students. Fellows participate in two workshops,
one in the late spring that helps prepare them to
undertake predissertation research on their topics, and
one in the early fall, designed to help them synthesize
their summer research and to draft proposals for
dissertation funding. For the 2007 application cycle, the
eligible research fields and respective research directors
are:
Black Atlantic Studies
- Andrew Apter, Professor of History, UCLA
- Percy Hintzen, Professor of African-American Studies,
UC Berkeley
Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation
- John Bowen, Professor of Anthropology, Washington
University
- Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
The Political Economy of Redistribution
- Jonathan Rodden, Associate Professor of Political
Science, MIT
- Erik Wibbels, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Washington
Visual Culture
- Anne Higonnet, Professor of Art History, Columbia
University
- Vanessa Schwartz, Professor of History, University of
Southern California
Water Sustainability: Society, Politics, Culture
- Steven Caton, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
University
- Ben Orlove, Professor of Environmental Science and
Policy, UC Davis
Sixty fellowships of approximately $5,000 will be
awarded in 2007 with funds provided by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Fellowships will provide support
for predissertation during summer 2007.
The program is open to full-time graduate students in
the humanities and social sciences--regardless of
citizenship--enrolled in doctoral programs in the United
States. Further eligibility exceptions are detailed online.
Graduate students should be in the early phase of
their research, generally in the 2nd or 3rd year of their
doctoral program.
To access the online application, please visit
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/. Applications must be
complete and submitted online before 9:00 pm (EST) on
March 1, 2007. The reference letters must also be
submitted online by the same deadline. In addition,
undergraduate and graduate transcripts must be sent to
the SSRC by mail and received by March 1, 2007.
Applicants will be notified of the competition results in
April 2007.
For further information about each of the research
fields, application and eligibility requirements, please
visit the DPDF Program online at:
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/ or contact dpdf@ssrc.org.
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.