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Cooperative development in Ghana: Brown bag seminar
Mindy Habecker from UW Extension will share her experiences working with 65 farmers in rural southeastern Ghana near Ada. The two week project through Farmer to Farmer, US AID was to assist members of the Afiadenyigba tribe form a farmer’s cooperative. These farmers grow cassava, watermelon, tomatoes, okra, and raise a variety of livestock. The project…
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Pleasure and the Pleasurable in Africa and the African Diaspora
This conference will be a lively interrogation of an uncommon theme in the scholarly study of Africa and the African diaspora: pleasure. The uncommonness is not surprising, given the constituent elements of the modern history of the African world in the last five centuries: slavery, colonialism, and the continuing challenges of postemancipation, civil rights and…
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Representing Research in International Organizations: A Panel on Bridging Gaps
Organizations working in international development, particularly large national and multilateral institutions, are increasingly focused on generating and documenting knowledge about the issues at the center of their work. However, researchers with experience in the academy who are brought into these projects may find significant differences in the ways that problems and questions are framed, in…
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Joint Learning Community: Global Privilege
Wisconsin Without Borders is hosting a joint learning meeting at the Morgridge Center for Public Service Round Room. The topic being discussed is “Global Privilege.” The learning community will be joined by Jane Collins, Joe Conti, and Gavin Luter to discuss both the location/operation of power within the global community and opportunities for resistance via engaged scholarship.
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Africa at Noon: “Contamination of Subsistence Fisheries in Tropical Africa by Neurotoxic Metals: Health Risks and Sources of Mercury”
Our team will discuss our new findings on mercury concentrations and isotope ratios in food fish harvested in Gabon, Rep. Congo, Tanzania, and Kenya, and place these statistics in a global context. Concentrations are extraordinarily high in Central African rivers, moderate in Lake Victoria, and low in Lake Tanganyika. Health impacts are difficult to predict, but…