Application forms are available from the African Studies Center. The Summer program will be directed by Prof. Grover Hudson, Faculty, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University. Lecturers will be drawn from across the nation and from Ethiopia, and will include more than 10 MSU faculty who have taught, worked, and conducted research in Ethiopia. Amharic Intensive Summer Program participants are expected to participate in this gratis workshop. This workshop aims to enhance social science, natural science, and humanities undergraduate courses that teach about the African environment, by encouraging the use of film and video images that are accurate representations of Africans and Africa and that challenge the conventional concept of the African environment.
Registration is free, however there is a small fee to cover materials, breaks and an African meal.
The Institute of International Health is distributing application packets to minority students for May - August 1999 overseas research postings. The Institute received a bridge funding from the Forgarty International Center, National Institute of Health, for this project. The deadline for submission of completed application forms is December 15, 1998. The African Studies Program, Ohio University, announces a call for papers for the Institute for the African Child Inaugural Conference to be held on June 16 - 19, 1999. There will also be a special workshop on Saturday, June 19, on methods for incorporating knowledge about Africa's children across K-12 curriculum .