MillerComm 2012
The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
Location: Spurlock Museum
Time:4-5:30 p.m.

U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa: Is Obama Policy a Continuation or Break?
Lecture by Professor Horace Campbell

Horace Campbell focuses on the Obama administration's Africa policy in a changing global landscape with a particular reference to the movements for social justice in Egypt and North Africa. His presentation will draw out the importance of the basic literacy on Africa so that disinformation on Africa does not support the rising militarism and scramble for resources in Arica.

Please see the following links to Daily Illini coverage of the Malawi Project:

Malawi Mixer Preview and Zomba Sister City Construction

Post Malawi Mixer and more on Sister City Programs

Malawi Project On-air: 107.1 FM

New 10 Week Online Course!

February 20- May 2, 2011

Modern Africa has sustained the world's most rapid and profound changes following centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. The African continent saw its social systems, economic structures, and political organizations, religious and cultural practices profoundly transformed by centuries of European imperialism. Despite Africa's importance in our shared world history, it is the least understood continent. The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the broad historical, social, political and economic forces that have shaped modern Africa. We will approach this course with an interdisciplinary framework to examine the great civilizations of pre-colonial African societies; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the impact of colonialism; nationalism, pan-Africanism and independence movements; social movements and democratization; gender and development; the role of the contemporary African diaspora in African development, and globalization.


*Questions about this course? Contact Dr. Maimouna Barro: barro@illinois.edu or Richard Deja: rdeja2@illinois.edu

Click here to see the course flyer

Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World Conference seeks to better understand aspects of these unfolding processes of urbanization and transnationalism that might prove similar or different from the past and across regions. Through this conference we seek a global perspective grounded in the experiences of various regions of the world, including Africa, South and South East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, European Union, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Speakers: Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester, UK; Professor Martin Murray, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Professor Teresa Caldeira, University of California, Berkley; Professor Asef Bayat, University of Illinois

For more information, please see the conference website: http://cgs.illinois.edu/jacs2012