Contemporary Literature Colloquium
About the Resources
Included are links to departments, programs, research circles, and groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research interests that intersect with those of the CLC. To add additional links to this page, please contact Thom Dancer.
Links to Resources
African Diaspora Studies Group
A 2003-2004 Mellon Grant Workshop Series supported by the UW Center for the Humanities with a focus on "Africa in the African Diaspora: New Insights into the Diffusion of African Identity and Cultural Forms."
In addition to coordinating course offerings on Africa, the African Studies Program sponsors a variety of activities including cultural programs, visiting lecturers, and a faculty-student colloquium series to encourage faculty and students at the university to widen their interest and knowledge of Africa.
Afro-American Studies Department
The Department of Afro-American Studies (AAS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers curricula, programming, and spearheads research that critically engage historical, cultural and social aspects of American and African American life.
Border Studies Research Circle
The Border Studies Research Circle has been formed, with sponsorship from the International Institute and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, to foster dialogue on campus among faculty, staff, and students from different departments and programs around issues of intercultural contact.
In addition to promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative teaching and research in the humanities, the Center for the Humanities organizes the "Humanities Forums on Contemporary Issues" which features programming that is free and open to the public.
The Center for South Asia supports extensive teaching, research, academic study and outreach relating to the countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Tibet and, to a lesser extent, the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
Published at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but not affiliated with the CLC, Contemporary Literature publishes essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field.
The home page for Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with links to the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs.
Institute for Research in the Humanities
The Institute supports research in the study of literature, philosophy, history, culture, and the arts; it also promotes interdisciplinary scholarship, while cultivating methodological diversity and breadth.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University home page.
Visual Culture Studies looks at the production and consumption of images, objects, and events from diverse cultures, across national boundaries, and within a global context.