Unit 6: Ends of the Future
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Week 26
Tuesday, March 21
- Mexica Poetry and the Destruction of Tenochtitlan
- Plenary: Apocalypse and the Birth of Modernity
Thursday, March 23 (am)
- Bartolomé de las Casas, A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Sections: Empire and Apocalypse
Thursday, March 23 (pm)
- Joy Harjo, “Selected Poems”
- Plenary: Apocalypse; or, Coming Full Circle
Week 27
Tuesday, March 28
- Jared Sexton, “Afro-Pessimism: The Unclear Word,” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 29 (2016)
- Section and Plenary: Queer Afropessimism
Thursday, March 30 (am)
- Mary Jane Leach, Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015).
- Listen: Julius Eastman, Gay Guerrilla (1979)
- Plenary: Queer Afropessimis
Thursday, March 30 (pm)
- Epes Lecturer
- Plenary: Black Utopias
Week 28
Tuesday, April 4
Thursday, April 6 (am)
Thursday, April 6 (pm)
Week 29
Tuesday, April 11
- Carmen Maria Machado, “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU” (2013)
- Plenary: Carmen Maria Machado, “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU” (2013)Weird Apoclaypses
Thursday, April 13 (am)
- Excerpts from Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie (2016)
- “Especially Heinous,” (cont.)
- Section: Weird Apocalypses
Thursday, April 13 (pm)
- Porpentine, Howling Dogs (2012)
- Section: More Weird Apocalypses
Week 30
Tuesday, April 18
- Plenary and small groups:Millenarian movements, imperial orders, and a useable past (skill: historiographical thinking)
Thursday, April 20 (am)
- Sections: Maji Maji Rebellion (narratives and interpretations)
Thursday, April 20 (pm)
