Watch Past Events & Workshops
Past Events
International Studies Consortium of Georgia Reinhart Consortium
A yearly conference for community college instructors and higher education instructors in Southern colleges to engage with Africa in their classrooms and their disciplines.
Watch past years conferences here.
2024: Repositioning Africa’s Place in the Classroom, June 14, 2024
2023: The Climate Crisis, Engagement, and Activism, June 9, 2023
2022: Understanding African Journalism, Theater, and Cinema, June 3, 2022.
Africa and the Indian Ocean Worlds: Histories of Diaspora, Enslavement, Resistance, and Affirmation
November 4th, 2023
Histories of Global Enslavement & Resistance with Dr. Richard Allen
Histories of Enslavement & Resistance in Mauritius with Dr. Vijaya Teelock
Unpacking Foreign Military Presences in Africa Series
Understanding the Wagner Group with Dr. Christopher Tounsel
September 20, 2023
Understanding the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) with Dr. Horace Campbell
October 11, 2023
Islam in Africa Series with the Library of Congress
Virtual Conference on Africa: The Climate Crisis, Engagement and Activism
Friday June 9, 2023
An online conference open to the International Studies Consortium of Georgia universities as well as community college and Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) instructors nation-wide.
Sustainable Cities and the Climate Crisis with Dawit Benti
Environmental Justice and the Political Economy of Climate Change in Africa with Dr. James Boyce
Educating for Climate Change with Ms. Vanessa Nakate
Africa, The Global Climate Crisis, and Reparations with Dr. Taiwó
Confronting Genocide – Saturday January 21st, 2023
A workshop for 6-12 teachers in partnership with The Brown Choices Program, the Upstander Project, and in collaboration with the Massachusetts Council for Social Studies.
Click here to access our page of resources supporting this workshop.
2021-2022
Virtual Conference Towards a Better Understanding of African Journalism, Music, Theater, & Cinema
On Friday, June 3rd, The International Studies Consortium of Georgia in partnership with Reinhardt University, the Harvard Center for African Studies, The University of Florida Center for African Studies, and Boston University’s African Studies Center, hosted a virtual conference for educators entitled: Towards a Better Understanding of African Journalism, Music, Theater, and Cinema.
Click here to access the powerpoint and the recordings.
- Dynamics of African Journalism and Media: Disruptions, Actors and Uniqueness Dr. Bob Wekesa
- Music of Africa and African Musical Instruments Dr. Isaac G. Kalumbu
- Theater in Africa and a Sampling of Some Theatrical Performances Dr. Nefertiti Burton
- Introduction to African Cinemas: What do African Films Offer to American Students? Dr. Boukary Sawadogo
National Humanities Center Webinar Series: Teaching Language as Archive: Creole and Colonialism in Mauritius
Dr. Elsa Wiehe
Access the full lesson Koze! Kreol and Colonialism and view the webinar below.
Centering Africa in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)
A professional development workshop that centers African history and knowledge in the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) disciplines on October 16, 2021. Hear Thierry Zomahoun presents on the African roots of Mathematic, students at Foxborough Regional High School share their research on Onesimus, and Yara, a Boston Public School student, showing her mathematics tricks with fingers.
African Studies Association Annual Teachers’ Workshop 2021
Designing the Future: African Visions for a Just World
November 13th, 2021
Check out https://www.asaoutreach.org/ for more information about the event and click here to view the recordings of past sessions.
Teaching Nigeria in AP-COMP-GOV: Current Issues
This event is offered as a collaboration between Boston University African Studies Center and the Choices Program. Teachers will gain knowledge and practical resources to teach about current issues in Nigeria in AP Comp Gov. Lead Scholar Dr. Nimi Wariboko will present key events, followed by a presentation of the Choices Program curriculum, Nigeria: History, Identity and Change.
For more information contact Sean Jacobsen: sean.jacobsen@apcompgov.com
Confronting Apartheid Presentation at Brooks School
Learn how to build a Kalimba with your students!
Tuesday September 21st, 5:00PM-7:00PM ET (Online)
Are you looking for hands-on activities to do with your students? Are you seeking ways to bring African music and culture in the classroom? Join us to receive a Kalimba building kit, learn how to build it, along with background information about the instrument in context. After registering on Eventbrite, attendees will gain access to Zoom details and instructions to access your Kalimba building kit.
Click HERE to access PDF view of Kalimba Flyer
2020-21
Equity and Democracy Inaugural Summer Institute June 21-23, 2021
View the full conference website and resources HERE.
Subverting Silences, Absences, and Distortions: Decolonizing African Studies through the Curriculum.
View the African Studies Center presentations associated with this panel HERE.
- Using the Lens of Fanon to Decolonize the Curriculum and Center African Studies – Dr. Elsa Wiehe
- The Importance of Black Studies in the 21st c. Curriculum – Dr. Bob Bellinger
- Beyond the Myths of Empty Savannas and a few Great Men – Dr. Meghan Healy-Clancy
- Using Ancient Africa to Decolonize the Curriculum – Debora Heard
- Subverting Silences, Absences, and Distortions – Dr. Joyce Hope Scott
Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) 2020-21
The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S. Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) created CABA in 1991 to encourage the publication and use of accurate, balanced children’s materials about Africa. The Center for African Studies at Howard University is the institutional base for the Awards. The 2019-2020 awards feature a dynamic duo of co-hosts, Dr. Mpande and 10 year old Salaam Williams, and an outstanding series of authors!
Watch the 2019-20 event HERE.
Cultures, Connections, and Communities: Teaching about the Swahili Coast
This four-session workshop invites educators to reflect on the long history of the East African coast while exploring dynamic tools to bring this content to our students. All resources mentioned during the workshop are listed in the Swahili Coast Resource List. For 6-12 educators. Co-sponsored by Georgetown University and the National Museum of African Art.
Session 1: Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Eastern Africa – Dr. Chap Kusimba
Session 2: Practices for engaging students and making connections: Lamu and the Swahili – Kristin Strobel
Session 3: Trade, Global and East African Cultural Interactions in the Indian Ocean – Dr. Susan Douglass
Session 4: Engagement with Exhibitions and Resources from the National Museum of African Art – Pier Penic
Decolonial Perspectives in Teaching About African History in K-12 Schools
Speaker: Dr. George Sefa Dei
View the Presentation: Decolonial Perspectives in Teaching about African History in K-12 Schools
Affirming Students’ Cultural Identity Through Images
Dr. Kisha Tracy on Affirming Students’ Cultural Identity Through Images
View the resource lists Using Images to Affirm Cultural Identity HERE
Black History Month Event Colonization and Independence in Africa: Teaching about Historical and Contemporary Africa with Choices Program
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 7pm-8:30pm (US-EST)
Access the Resource list: “Colonialism, Resistance and Independence”