AFRAMER 209B: Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications Jump to Today

This course  is being taught as part of the African Studies Workshop at Harvard (ASW). It will consist of two components: (i) a public session, to be held every Monday evening at 6.00-8.00, at which a speaker invited from outside the university, a member of the Harvard faculty, or an advanced graduate student will present a pre-circulated paper to an audience similarly composed of faculty, visiting scholars, graduate students, and Africanists from other institutions in the greater Boston area. Each session will include a brief introduction to the paper by its author, a commentary by a discussant, and an open conversation, in which graduate students will be given the floor first for a period, followed by anyone else present; (ii) a graduate seminar component, to be held every Monday at 12.00-1.30, at which participants will discuss the paper to be presented on the same evening in the public session, along with relevant readings drawn from the contemporary Africanist canon. While the public sessions of the workshop are intended as a laboratory for international scholarly exchange, the graduate student component aims, in large part, to provide a professional apprenticeship for doctoral Africanists-in-training across the disciplines.