Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

Week 1

All program reading:

Epic of Sundiata

9/26

9-12 Introduction and lecture:

Bailey: Themes

9/28

9-11 film: Keita: The Heritage of the Griot

9/29

9-12 lecture:

Bailey: Ritual and Myth

Week 2

All program reading:

Solibo Magnificent

10/3

9-12 lecture:

M'Baye: Introduction to African Peoples and Cultures

10/5

9-11 film: Yeelen

10/6

9-12 workshop:

Sundiata, Solibo and oral traditions

Week 3

All program reading:

Course packet selections by Montaigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire

10/10

9-12 workshop on the Enlightenment

10/12

9-11 film: Le Retour de Martin Guerre

10/13

9-12 lecture:

Davis: France Before the Revolution

Week 4

All program reading:

Marat/Sade, plus photocopied essay on the French Revolution

10/17

9-12 lecture:

Davis: The French Revolution

10/19

9-11 film: Marat/Sade

10/20

9-12 workshop on Marat/Sade

Week 5

All program reading:

Lone Sun

10/24

9-12 lecture:

M'Baye: The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on West Africa

10/26

9-11 film: Sankofa

10/27

9-12 workshop on Lone Sun

Week 6

All program reading:

Black Jacobins

10/31

9-12 lecture:

Bailey: Haitian Revolution

11/2

9-11 film: Chaka

11/3

9-12 workshop on Black Jacobins

Week 7

All program reading:

Cathedral of the August Heat

11/7

9-12 lecture:

Bailey: Voudou

11/9

9-11 film: Divine Horsemen

11/10

9-12 workshop of Cathedral of the August Heat

Week 8

All program reading:

Ambiguous Adventure

11/14

9-12 lecture:

M'Baye: The Influence of Islam in Senegalese History

11/16

9-11 film: Ceddo

11/17

9-12 lecture/workshop:

Davis: Imperialism

Thanksgiving break

11/21

11/23

11/24

Week 9

All program reading:

Death and the King's Horseman and The Color of Liberty , pp 131-184

11/28

9-12 lecture/workshop:

Bailey: Ritual Theatre

11/30

9-11 film: La Noire de . . .

12/1

9-12 workshop on Death and the King's Horseman

Week 10

All program reading:

Rimbaud, selections

12/5

9-12 lecture/workshop:

Bailey: Rimbaud

12/7

9-11 film: Youssou N'Dour Live in London

12/8

student presentations

Evaluation week

12/12

12/14

12/15