The African Literature Association is hosting Matthew Brown who will discuss his book, Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address (Duke 2021). Time: Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 11:00 AM EST; London, 4:00 PM; Lagos, 5:00PM; Johannesburg, …
Uncategorized
Katrina Thompson Awarded Summer Stipend by NEH
Dr. Katrina Thompson has earned a Summer Stipend through the National Endowment for the Humanities. The stipend provides financial support for full-time work by a scholar on a humanities project for a period of …
Start with Achebe and go backward: An Interview with Ainehi Edoro
By Kathryn Mara On the elevator to the seventh floor of Helen C. White, I notice a particularly sharp-dressed woman in the lift beside me. We exit on the same floor but she heads left …
African 905: Cinematic Bodies: Aural Spaces in African Cinema
Fall 2019 Vlad Dima 3 credits T 2:30-5pm This seminar explores the narrative use of cinematic sound and diegetic bodies by francophone filmmakers beginning in 1966 with Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl and all the way up …
African 700: Reading & Writing African Cultural Studies
Fall 2019 Ron Radano 3 credits M 1:20-3:15pm This is a course on academic writing, designed to guide graduate students toward a full understanding of the craft of marshaling evidence to support an argument in …
African 606: African Historical Fiction
Fall 2019 Luis Madureira 3 credits TF 3:30-5pm Fulfills Literature, Advanced We begin with the following question: what is at stake, aesthetically, ethically and politically, in African appropriations of the historical drama and novel? How …
African 405: Lec 2, Colonialism & its Cultural Critique
Fall 2019 Ron Radano 3 credits W 1:20-3:15pm Fulfills Humanities, Intermediate How did the legacy of colonialism affect the arts and the idea of the aesthetic in Africa? How, in turn, did new African cultural …
African 405: Lec 1, Gender & Sexuality in Afro-Futurism
Fall 2019 Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué 3 credits M 3:30-5:25pm Fulfills Humanities, Intermediate Afrofuturism is a new and rapidly developing interdisciplinary genre. It is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of history that addresses the …
An Evening with Jamaica Kincaid
Humanities Without Borders features Jamaica Kincaid. Kincaid is an Antiguan-American author of twelve books, including the award-winning Annie John, Lucy, and Mr. Potter. She is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University. For twenty years, she …
Construction, Destruction, and Concealment under Cairo’s “Mad Caliph”
Jennifer PruittAssistant Professor Of Art History, University Of Wisconsin-Madison Details Humanities Friday Lunches are for faculty, graduate students, and staff.