Virtual Summer Institute for Educators In this institute, art historian Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss recent archaeological findings that demonstrate the global reach of West Africa trade items. Jacques Aymeric Nsangou, Harvard University and Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, University of Cambridge UK will discuss archaeology in medieval West Africa. For more information and to […]
Amplifying Voices When Histories Are Silenced Join educators across the country for the 2023 African Studies Association Teachers' Workshop! This year's program begins with a keynote by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, esteemed professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. His talk and the sessions that follow will explore two essential questions: How […]
Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children's Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, & South Asia Book Award) sponsor a free 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards and facilitate a discussion with the author on how to incorporate the book into the […]
Please join us for a discussion with Aya Khalil, author of The Great Banned-Book Bake Sale, winner of the 2024 Middle East Outreach Council Book Award for picture books, as well as the Joy for Books Award. Ms. Khalil also wrote The Arabic Quilt, a 2021 Honor Book for Young Children for the Children's Africana Book Awards and winner of a 2021 Arab American Book Award, as well as other books about and for Arab American children.
This program revisits the ORIAS focus on teaching World History through a collaboration with History for the 21st Century. Sessions will feature academic talks by H21 authors, explorations of related teaching materials, and facilitated discussion about how these topics and materials fit within the context of the World History survey course at community colleges. H21 materials […]