Global Africa: Creative Cultures

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
Introductions
1	Course overview
Special class outing:  “Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True,” American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA “Creating HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True.” YouTube.
Unit 1. Performance
2	Performing Africa	Reading response #1 due
3	Dress as performance In-class map quiz	Reading response #2 due
Unit 2. Images
4	The visual, knowledge, and power	Reading response #3 due
Special class outings: Screenings at the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, with Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis in attendance Tey aka Aujourd’hui. Directed by Alain Gomis. Color, 86 min. 2012. Félicité. Directed by Alain Gomis. Color, 129 min. 2017.
5	African cinemas: Representation, circulation, audiences	Reading response #4 due
Unit 3. The Art World
6	Value	Reading response #5 due
7	Authenticity, appropriation	Reading response #6 due Paper due
Unit 4. The Written Word
8	Writing and political engagement	Reading response #7 due Final project prospectus due
9	Writing about Africa in the world today	Reading response #8 due
Unit 5. Science and Technology
10	Conceptualizing African scientific and technological knowledges	Reading response #9 due
11	Innovation and development discourses Final project presentations and feedback	Reading response #10 due
Conclusions
12	African futures	Final project due