Schedule of Lectures and Films
| Monday AM | Tuesday – Film | Wednesday AM | |
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Week 1 1/5 - 7 |
Bailey – "Le Mythe du Primitivisme, Nietzsche et Gide" 11 :30 Orientation for new students Reading: L’Immoraliste |
"Rules of the Game" |
Fiksdal – Ritual & Discourse; Introduction to Ethnography |
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Week 2 1/12-14 |
Bailey – "Le Surréalisme à l’Exemple d’Artaud" |
Cocteau’s "Orphée" and shorts |
Hiro Kawasaki on Art History |
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Week 3 |
Holiday / No Class Reading – Rites of Spring |
"Grand Illusion" |
Davis – "WWI" and workshop on Rites of Spring |
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Week 4 1/26-28 |
Bailey – "Aimé Césaire" Reading – "Aimé Césaire" (Selected Poems*) |
"La Rue Cases Nègres" |
Bailey – Workshop on Césaire poems and visual art of W. Lam and J. Pons |
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Week 5 2/2-4 |
Davis – "History of Colonialism" Reading: Black Orpheus and French Hospitality |
"la noire de.." |
Bailey – « La Pensée Existentielle: Sartre, Camus » Fiksdal – « La Francophonie » |
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Week 6 2/9-11 |
Davis – "WW II and the Resistance" Reading: Accounts of Resistance |
"The Sorrow and The Pity" |
Davis – Workshop on the Resistance Fiksdal – Ethnography Workshop |
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Week 7 2/16-18 |
Holiday / No Class Reading: The Plague or Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade |
"Xala" |
Bailey – Workshop on Existentialism Fiksdal – Ethnography Workshop |
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Week 8 2/23-25 |
Bailey – "Le Carnaval" Reading: Solibo Magnificent |
"Black Orpheus" |
Bailey – Workshop on Solibo and Carnival |
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Week 9 3/1-3 |
Davis – "The Algerian War and Colonialism" Reading: Wretched of the Earth |
"Battle of Algiers" |
Bailey – Workshop on Fanon |
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Week 10 3/8-10 |
Bailey – "Le vaudou et les images du merveilleux" Reading: Cathedral of the August Heat |
"Yeelen" |
Final Exam Due No Class |
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