About the Center
The African Studies Center (ASC) provides the University and the people of North Carolina with a campus hub for inquiry and communication on Africa. The ASC sponsors a wide variety of activities that bring together interested faculty and students from a large number of academic disciplines, focusing on the interconnected issues of democratization, development, health, and gender. The ASC (www.unc.edu/depts/africa/) is located in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC Campus.
ASC Funds Speakers and Films on Africa at Community Colleges
The African Studies Center has funds available to provide speakers or films on Africa at North Carolina community colleges. These funds are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Please contact Neil Bolick (919/843-5332 nebolick@unc.edu) for details.
Understanding Contemporary Africa, March 26-27
Co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at UNC at Chapel Hill, this World View seminar will introduce participants to the challenges and opportunities African nations are facing in a globalized world. Application sessions will feature methods and resources for including the study of Africa in K-12 and community college classrooms. Please contact Neil Bolick (919/843-5332 nebolick@unc.edu) for details.
Resource Links
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Library
This library's collection gathers works on the African American experience, Africa, and the African Diaspora, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities. The library has a collection of print periodicals, and provides access to a wide array of electronic journals and databases. The Stone Center Library works closely with the other UNC-Chapel Hill libraries to develop resources in African Studies.
African Studies Collections of the UNC-Libraries
This site compiles links to resources such as electronic newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa and electronic indexes and databases. Campus library collections about Africa rank among the top twenty university collections in the country. Library holdings are strong for contemporary politics (particularly democratization), economic development, ethnicity and race, ethnographic studies, folklore, francophone literature, gender/women, history (especially European exploration/colonization), slavery (particularly the Atlantic slave trade), and social movements. Collections for population/demography are among the most extensive found anywhere in the world. Campus libraries have in-depth collections for the francophone and lusophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Davis Library houses the major collections and services for African Studies, covering all the humanities and social sciences.
International Expertise Database
The Faculty International Expertise Database enhances and streamlines access to information on the international expertise of faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. It is searchable by several criteria, and can be used to locate a faculty member with expertise in a particular area.
February Events
Lecture by Egyptian Artist Ghada Amer
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
6:00 PM, Global Education Center
Ghada Amer embroiders her paintings with delicate traceries of stray threads to create a visual shift between abstract expressionism and representation of the erotic. This talk is part of the Hanes Art Series sponsored by UNC Department of Art.
Performance by Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi
Friday, February 22, 2008
8:00 PM, Global Education Center
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Urban Bush Women is a company of seven women who have sought to bring the untold stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. Compagnie Jant-Bi is based in Senegal, West Africa and comprised of seven men. Their dance technique combines traditional West African dance with elements of classical ballet and Western modern dance. For ticket information contact Memorial Hall Box Office, 919/843-3333.
March Events
Lecture by African Artist Wangechi Mutu
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
6:00 PM, Global Education Center
Wangechi Mutu uses images cut from fashion magazines, National Geographic, and books about African Art to piece together figures which are both elegant and perverse, exploring notions of glamour, corruption, and violence from a West African perspective. This talk is part of the Hanes Art Series sponsored by UNC Department of Art.
Photos of Africa are from the African Studies Center website.
