Stephen P. Heyneman received his PhD in comparative education from the University of Chicago in 1976. He served the World Bank for 22 years. Between 1976 and 1984 he helped research education quality and design policies to support educational effectiveness. Between 1984 and 1989 he was in charge of external training for senior officials worldwide in education policy. And between 1989 and 1998, he was responsible for education policy and lending strategy, first for the Middle East and North Africa and later for the 27 countries of Europe and Central Asia.

Please join us for a round table conversation with Ms. Violet on education in Zimbabwe. Violet will share her personal and professional experience as educator, activist and community leader for education improvement and Entrepreneurship. She is passionate about education and has dedicated her life to showing leadership on social justice issues in and out of the classrooms.

The African Studies Program invites students, faculty and staff to join us for our
welcome back reception. Reconnect, meet new people, celebrate the beginning of a new academic year, and learn about the exciting activities and resources available to
advance your African Studies interests at Pitt. 

*Please RSVP by Friday, September 11, 2015 to AfricanStudies@pitt.edu

A faculty and curriculum enrichment workshop sponsored by the international and area studies programs of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh. This is the first in a planned series of annual workshops aimed at internationalizing college campuses in the Western Pennsylvania region, with support from the Title VI National Resource Center program of the U.S. Department of Education. Participation by faculty from minority-serving institutions and community colleges is particularly encouraged.

Please join us for a roundtablke discussion on women in leadership. Our guest is the distinguished Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, former Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth.

A celebration of the international achievements of the Class of 2015. The UCIS Graduation Ceremony recognizes students who have attained a Certificate or a Bachelor of Philosophy in International & Area Studies.

Join us for presentations by our graduating students, who will share their experiences, research, and how the African Studies Certificate Program has impacted their lives thus far and looking forward! Pizza will be provided!

This presentation will explore the irony of Africa's poverty and underdevelopment in the midst of its vast mineral wealth. Using Nigeria - Africa's biggest economy and most populous country - as a case study, the topic will x-ray the probable nexus; identify the underlying sociopolitical and economic causes of the paradox often referenced as the 'resource curse'; and suggest policy options for reversing the trend.

U.S. and European news coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa highlighted the urgency of the public health crisis, focusing often on the need to contain the outbreak to prevent its spread to “our shores.” Implicit (and often explicit) in these stories, however, were long-standing xenophobic and racialized attitudes toward African diseases that can be traced back to European imperial and pseudo-scientific ideas of the nineteenth century.

Professor Anika Wilson of the Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin, will present a lecture on her book "Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun."