6PM: WORKSHOP: Internships, Networking, Social Media Profiles + Portfolios, with Robbie Powers, Director of Student Affairs, and Career Services’ Lisa Romeo (Here’s Robbie’s and Lisa’s presentation)
6:45PM: PREP FOR “EVERYDAY FORMS OF INNOVATION” PANEL ON MAY 1
Note: I’ve asked our guests to limit their recommended readings to ~50pp. each. As you can see, both Drs. Jacobs and Mavhunga offered “ambitious” reading lists. Thus, we’ll need to practice some of the “efficient reading“ skills we discussed earlier this semester.
- Sean Jacobs, “Big Brother, Africa Is Watching,” Media, Culture & Society 29:6 (2007): 851-68.
- Sean Jacobs, “Instagramming Africa,” Journal of African Media Studies 8:1 (March 2016) (13 pp).
- Sean Jacobs, “Emergent African Digital Identities: The Story Behind ‘Africa is a Country,’” Journal of African Media Studies 7:3 (September 2015) (15 pp).
- Binyavanga Wainaina, “How to Write About Africa,” Granta 92 (January 19, 2016).
- Africa is a Country (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)
- Clapperton Mavhunga, “Guerrilla Healthcare Innovation: Creative Resilience in Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga, 1971 – 1980,” History and Technology 31:3 (2015): 295-323.
- Clapperton Mavhunga, “Organic Vehicles and Passengers: The Tsetse Fly as Transient Analytical Workspace,” Transfers 6:2 (2016): 74-93.
- I (Shannon) encourage you to read the introductions and conclusions of each chapter [n.b.: the middle sections contain some graphic descriptions of hunting and illness]: Clapperton Mavhunga, “The Coming of the Gun” and “The Professoriate of the Hunt” in Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014): 71-98, 125-49 [search for and read an electronic copy through the New School Library’s website].
Supplemental Resources:
- Sean Jacobs, “What Muhammad Ali Believed,” Jacobin (June 18, 2016).
- Sean Jacobs, “ Big Bucks and the Mamelodi Sundowns,” Road and Kingdoms (2014).
- Sean Jacobs, “To So Many Africans, Fidel Castro is a Hero. Here’s Why,” The Guardian (November 30, 2016).
- Search YouTube for “Clapperton Mavhunga”
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