The student dialogues are conceived around facilitated virtual conversations among American students from underrepresented minority backgrounds and South Africa students from historically disadvantaged demographic groups. The dialogues focus on contemporary issues facing young people across the Atlantic. They provide participants opportunities to rethink national, racial, linguistic, and other boundaries and differences; to foster cross-cultural understanding; and to promote the resolution of real and imagined differences through dialogue. The dialogues comprise weekly 2-hour sessions scheduled for five consecutive weeks in October, and June.
We are pleased to invite applications for participation in a five-part series of Ubuntu Virtual Student Dialogues. The Virtual Student Dialogues offer a much-needed forum for connecting students at U.S. and South African higher education institutions and for cultivating cross-cultural understanding on contemporary and critical issues confronting young people in today’s world!
Dialogue Schedule:
Time: 9:00 – 11:00 am EST (1:00 – 3:00 pm GMT/UTC and 3:00 – 5:00 pm GMT+2)
Dates: October 19, October 26, November 02, November 09, November 16, November 23, and November 30, 2021.
Click link below to see the Call for Participants.
Call for Participants
Feel free to reach out to Beza Desta at with any questions.
We are pleased to invite applications for participation in a four-part series of Ubuntu Virtual Student Dialogues. Designed to connect students at African and U.S. higher education institutions, the dialogue sessions offer a much-needed forum for cultivating cross-cultural understanding on contemporary and critical issues confronting young people across the Atlantic.
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am EST (1:00 – 2:30 pm GMT/UTC and 3:00 – 4:30 pm GMT+2)
Dates: May 18, May 25, June 01, and June 08, 2021
Dr. Upenyu Majee, MSU
Dr. Marietjie Oelofsen, Stellenbosch
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Afripod
Eye on Africa
African Tea Time
