Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

Week 1

All program reading:

Gide, The Immoralist

1/9

9-12 Introduction and lecture:

Bailey on Primitivism

1/11

9-12 film: 

“La Grande Illusion”

1/12

9-12 lecture/workshop

on Gide

Week 2

All program reading:

Antoinine Maillet, Pélagie

1/16  Martin Luther King Holiday

1/18

9-12 film:  “Eve’s Bayou”

1/19 lecture/workshop

Davis on Louisiana;

workshop on Maillet

Week 3

All program reading:

 Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir

1/23

9-12 lecture:

M’Baye on Africanisms

1/25

9-12 film:  “The Money Order”

1/26

9-12 lecture/workshop on Stovall; Davis on the colonization of Algeria  

Week 4

All program reading:

selections from Artaud and Refusal of the Shadow

1/30

9-12 lecture:

Bailey on Surrealism

2/1

9-12 film:  “Quartier Mozart”

2/2

9-12 lecture/workshop on

Artaud

Week 5

All program reading: selections from Césaire

2/6

9-12 lecture:

Bailey on Césaire

2/8

9-12 film:  “Sugar Cane Alley”

2/9

9-12 lecture/workshop

on Césaire

Week 6

All program reading:

Camus, The Stranger

2/13

9-12 lecture:

Davis on the memory of WWII

2/15

9-12 film: “The Sorrow and the Pity”

2/16

9-12 lecture:

Bailey on Existentialism

Week 7

All program reading:

Sartre, Orphée noir and a play TBA

2/20 Holiday

Presidents’Day

2/22

9-12 film: “Black Orpheus” 

2/23

9-12 lecture/workshop on existentialism

Week 8

All program reading:

Senghor, Collected Poetry

2/27

9-12 lecture: Bailey and M’Baye on Négritude

3/1

9-12 film: Documentary:  Aimé Cesaire

3/2

9-12 lecture/workshop on Négritude

Week 9

All program reading:

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks and selections from Wretched of the Earth

3/6

9-12 lecture/workshop:

Davis on Algeria and the Franco-Algerian War

3/8

9-12 film:  “The Battle of Algiers”…

3/9

9-12 lecture/workshop:

Davis on Race in France Today; workshop on Fanon and The Battle of Algiers

Week 10

All program reading:

Essential Encounters

3/13

9-12 lecture:

M”Baye on Marcus Garvey

3/15

9-12 film: “La Haine”

3/16

student presentations

Evaluation week

3/20

3/22

3/23