Posted on April 17, 2025
On Tuesday, 15 April 2025, the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) hosted a public lecture titled “Trump's Threat to Democracy and the Future of the Global Order,” delivered by Dr. Gregory F. Treverton, Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Spatial...
Posted on March 13, 2025
Having recently hosted the first G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, and the finance track meetings in February 2025, South Africa’s diplomacy is once again being tested with the world’s attention firmly fixated on the country as it navigates geopolitical storms in the...
Posted on February 25, 2025
This projecat calls for critical examination of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0. and implications for world order, disorder, and reorder.
Posted on January 17, 2025
The Toyin Falola Interviews: A Panel Discussion on President Trump and Africa
Posted on November 30, 2024
In response to the devastation, the relief efforts of the Biden administration have been a focal point of heated partisan debate between the Trump campaign, the Harris campaign and the Biden White House.
Posted on October 16, 2024
The African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP), in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, cordially invites you to a webinar on the Upcoming U.S. presidential and legislative election process, with the opportunity to exchange with the speaker...
Posted on October 08, 2024
This presentation explores the Black experience in America from a societal and community perspective. The Black experience is a complex narrative woven from threads of triumph and struggle.
Posted on October 06, 2024
On October 3-4, 2024, Prof. Christopher Isike participated in the two days Citizenship for Peace workshops at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC - official page) in Accra, Ghana.
Posted on September 07, 2024
On 03 September 2024, the Director of ACSUS-UP, Prof. Christopher Isike, presented a thematic paper titled "The Complex Contestation in the Politics of Just Energy Transition" at the Australian Africa University Network (AAUN) Forum on Just Energy Transition. Curtin University, Western Australia,...
Posted on August 21, 2024
Cooperation between the United States and Africa has evolved over the last century. As the world’s leading space power, the United States has supported relevant research and development of space science and technologies and associated policy and strategies in Africa through grant, aid,...
Posted on August 05, 2024
The Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP), Prof. Christoper Isike, actively participated in the 2024 Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSIs), hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and led by the University of Montana....
Posted on July 27, 2024
The African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP), featured as a Civil Society delegate at the 21st AGOA Forum 2024 in Washington, D.C. The Forum was held from 24 to 26 July. ACSUS-UP was invited by the Africa Program of the Wilson Center in Washington,...
Posted on July 04, 2024
On 4th July 1776, the United States of America declared its independence.
Posted on May 01, 2024
South Africa and the United States both have the most consequential elections in their political history in 2024.
Posted on April 16, 2024
From the 11th to the 15th of March, an inspiring journey unfolded as students from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Pretoria embarked on a week-long exchange and study tour of South Africa.
Posted on April 16, 2024
The African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP) cordially invites students and scholars of international relations, and everyone interested in international politics to an in-person classroom engagement (Q&A session) with Salman Ahmed, Director, Policy...
Posted on April 15, 2024
A half-day policy seminar was held on 27 February 2023, hosted by the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), and the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS), both at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa; and the Center for African Studies at Howard...
Posted on March 18, 2024
Based on his new book, Diplomatic Statecraft, Nicolas Kralev will discuss the imperative of building a modern curriculum in diplomatic tradecraft and partnering with some of the most respected former career ambassadors to create and deliver practical training programs with case studies and...
Posted on November 13, 2023
In September 2023, President Joe Biden created a new advisory council that aims to strengthen ties between the US and Africa. The 12-member council, which includes several African-born US citizens—one of them being former US ambassador to South Africa, Mr. Patrick Gaspard—was created,...
Posted on October 24, 2023
For centuries, Black people in the United States and South Africa have been allies in the struggle for social justice and racial equity. This presentation will explore how examples of Black activism in the United States have created systems and structures to protect, promote, and preserve the...
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