MSU Tuesday Bulletin, 02/03/04

THE TUESDAY BULLETIN

Issue No. 4 Spring 2004
February 3, 2004

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
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONFERENCES

EVENTS

February 5, Thursday

"Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: How can they be jointly achieved?" African Studies Center Brown Bag with Cynthia Donovan, Faculty (Agricultural Economics, MSU), 12:00 noon, Room 201, International Center.

February 12, Thursday

"Liberia after Charles Taylor: Some Personal Reflections," African Studies Center Brown Bag with Tim Geysbeek, Visiting Professor of History (Grand Valley State University) and Pastor Sam Reeves, native Liberian, of Madison Square Reformed Church (Grand Rapids, MI), 12:00 noon, Room 201, International Center.

February 19, Thursday

"The Impact of Ethiopian-Americans on Ethiopia," African Studies Center Brown Bag with Solomon Addis, Advanced Graduate Student (History, MSU), 12:00 noon, Room 201, International Center.

MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS

African Studies Center Application for Foreign
Language and Area Studies (FLAS) 2004-05

The African Studies Center at MSU is now accepting on-line applications for FLAS fellowships for academic year 2004-05 and for the 2004 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 language and non-language courses on Africa.

Detailed information on the fellowship, and on-line application guidelines and forms are available on the Center's website: http://africa.msu.edu/. Applicants who can not access the on-line forms can either use the printable PDF files available at the bottom of the application form webpage or contact the African Studies Center at (517) 353-1700; or e-mail: africa@msu.edu.

The deadline for submitting applications to the Center is February 13, 2004. In accordance with the Title VI centers' agreement of rotating summer course offerings under SCALI, African languages study in summer 2004 will be hosted by Ohio University. For more information visit the following site: http://www.ohiou.edu/scali.

Faculty Paper and Case Study

Dr. Carl Eicher, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus with the Department of Agricultural
Economics and African Studies Center Core Faculty
member presented a paper entitled, "Flashback: Fifty Years of Donor Aid to African Agriculture."

The paper is now available on the IFPRI web site at: http://www.ifpri.org/events/conferences/2003/120103/ papers/paper16.pdf or e-mail africa@msu.edu to request a copy as an attachment.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Five College African Scholars Program

This program brings junior and mid-level African
scholars, employed by and teaching in African
universities and with active research projects with an African focus, for 5 and 10 month research residencies at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline for applications is May 15, 2004. For more information visit the web site at: www.fivecolleges.edu/asp/.

CONFERENCES

35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
April 2-4, 2004

The Department of African and African American
Studies and the W. E. B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research is hosting the 35th
Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The
Conference Theme is AFRICAN LANGUAGES and
LINGUISTICS in BROAD PERSPECTIVE.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizers of ACAL35 would like to invite papers that document or study the influence of African
languages in the diaspora (such as those dealing with Gullah, Haitian, Papiamentu, Creole, etc.), or any other topic relating to African languages and linguistics.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
Computational linguistics, Language acquisition,
Language learning, Language planning, Language use, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics,
Semantics, Sociolinguistics, and Syntax. E-mail
abstracts (Microsoft Word attachments only) to:
acal35@fas.harvard.edu. Abstracts must be written in English with a 250-word maximum in a 12-point font. Abstract deadline is February 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance will be February 20, 2004. For more information, please visit:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/du_bois/

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