January 28Communication Studies Colloquium Series:“History & Memory in Southeast Africa” Elizabeth MacGonagleKASC/History/AAASJayhawk Room, Kansas Union

4:00-5:00 pm KASC Faculty SeminarPeter Ukpokodu, AAAS; Mickey Imber, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies; Majid Hannoum, Anthropology; Sandra Gray, AnthropologyInternational Room, Kansas Union

3:30-5:00 pmFebruary 16

World Wednesday: Kiswahili BasicsMackenzie Jones, KASC Outreach CoordinatorLawrence Public Library,Meeting Room B

4:00-5:00 pmApril 29

March 93:30-5:00 pmKASC Faculty Seminar: “The Decolonial Park: Nature and Race on Safari in Tanzania”Cassie Hays, KASC Visiting Scholar/Sociology, Gettysburg CollegeInternational Room, Kansas Union

April 10Nature & Culture Seminar: “Petro-Violence, the Politics of Oil, and Contemporary Nigerian Literature”Byron Caminero-Santangelo, EnglishHall Center, Seminar Room 1

3:30-5:00 pm

April 28African Studies Council Meeting Open to all Africanists on campus.Bailey 109

2:00-3:30 pm

Ujamaa Food for Thought: “The Profile of Physically Abused Women in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe”Elizabeth Asiedu, EconomicsBailey 318

Lunch provided.

April 2212:00-1:00 pm

Fifth Annual KASC Graduate Research Workshop Abstracts due March 2 to kasc@ku.eduDivine Nine Room, Kansas Union

9:00 am-4:00 pmApril 3March 30

6:00-8:00 pm

Spring Events

2015

KASC Faculty SeminarHannah Britton, WGSS/Political Science; Ebenezer Obadare, Sociology; Beverly Mack, AAAS; Harold Torrence, LinguisticsCentennial Room, Kansas Union

April 273:30-5:00 pm

April 15African Literature in Rhythmic Cadence: Wole Soyinka @ 80Hawk’s Nest, Kansas Union

6:00 pm

February 15Apply for fellowships that pay tuition and provide a living stipend to study Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, Kiswahili, Somali, or Wolof.

Visit: www.flas.ku.edu

FLAS FellowshipApplication Deadline

www.kasc.ku.eduPhoto of Mpumalanga, South Africa by Javier Abalos Alvarez

International Expo:The World and You at KU4th Floor Lobby, Kansas Union

11:00 am-3:00 pm Feburary 25

Film Screening: “God Loves Uganda”An exploration of the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda. Followed by a discussion with Okaka Dokotum, Fulbright visiting scholar from Kyambogo University, Uganda.Spencer Museum Auditorium