Schedule

July 12 -August 7, 2015

The Institute will begin with an opening reception on Sunday evening, July 12, where participants will be welcomed by Institute Director Nwando Achebe, Associate Director John Metzler, and African Studies Center Director, Jamie Monson. This will be an opportunity for participating NEH summer scholars and the Institute staff to begin to get to know each other in person.

The weekly schedule follows, in the link below.

Sessions described as “teacher/scholar interviews” will be used to tape short 10-minute videos of teachers interviewing the participating scholars about the key points and concepts from their presentations. Sessions described as “Application to teaching /curriculum plan development” will be used for discussion of how the topics and presentations during the Institute can be incorporated into teaching to meet high school World History standards. In addition, some of this time will be available for the participating teachers to work individually or in pairs on designing their curriculum plans. The exact plans for these time periods will be shaped by the weekly evaluation sessions and any other input from participants regarding what they would find most valuable. The Institute Associate Director, John Metzler, will be available during all of these sessions, and Institute Director Nwando Achebe can be available upon request to consult with individuals about their curriculum plan. Additionally, Institute Associate Director, John Metzler and the graduate assistant will be available at the Africana Library each Monday through Thursday each week from 3:00-4:30 to consult with teachers individually or as teams. A graduate student proficient in PBworks, and blog tools being used for the Institute also will be available to train or coach participants during that time period in the first two weeks, as needed.

Schedule

Week 1: July 13– July 17, 2015 Africa Before the Europeans—Indigenous Institutions and Knowledge Systems (Big Eras One and Four)
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Topic	Discourse on Seeing and Representing	Myths and Realities	The Region and Her Peoples	Source for the Study of African Worlds	Islamic Encounters with Africa
8:30- 10:00	Registration, welcome and introduction, Nwando Achebe	Video and discussion: (1) What Do You Know about Africa? (2) “The African They Will Never Show You” Nwando Achebe	The Physical Context of African History: Geography and Environment, Leo Zulu	African worlds through music, George Dor	Documentary and discussion: Caravans of Gold, Joseph Bangura
10:00- 10:15	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:15- 11:45	Racism, imperialism and the writing of African worlds, Folu Ogundimu	Africa and the World, Jonathan Reynolds	The region and her peoples; views of history and time, Nwando Achebe	African worlds through art: strategies for reading African visual cultures as history, Raymond Silverman	The Trans Saharan caravan and spread of Islam in the Western Sudan, Joseph Bangura
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1:10- 1:20	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews
1:30- 3:00	Tour of MSU’s Africa holdings, library, Peter Limb	Incorporating Africa into World History, Jonathan Reynolds	African views of the universe and religion, Nwando Achebe	Check in with teachers, Nwando Achebe and John Metzler	Discussion of Africa in high school world history textbooks, John Metzler and Craig Windt
3:00- 4:30	Logistics—securing IDs and parking permits	Consultation with Dean Rehberger about PBworks	Free time or consultation with John Metzler; Consultation about PBworks	Free time or consultation with John Metzler; Consultation about PBworks	Free
Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	African worlds through food: Prepare & eat meal together, Nwando Achebe	Dinner
Evening	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing		Available for socializing or reading

Week 2: July 20 – July 24, 2015 Africa Before the Europeans—Indigenous Institutions and Knowledge Systems, contd. (Big Eras One and Four) & Encounters with Africa—The Slave Trades and the Integration of Africa into the World Economy (Big Eras Five and Six)
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Topic	Western Sudanic Kingdoms	East African Civilizations	Gender, Religion & Political Organization	Africa in the World History Classroom	Domestic “Slavery” and African slave origins
8:30- 10:00	The Western Sudanic Kingdom of Ghana, Rudolph (Butch) Ware	Documentary: Africa: A History Denied Cymone Fourshey	The family and marriage, Nwando Achebe	Discussion of state World History standards, John Metzler	“Slavery” in Africa: The Human Dimension, Ndubueze Mbah
10:00- 10:15	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:15- 11:45	The Western Sudanic Kingdom of Mali, Rudolph (Butch) Ware	Great Zimbabwe civilization, Cymone Fourshey	The Nyamwezi, Nwando Achebe	Film: Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kine [to 12:25]	“Slavery” in Africa: The Spiritual Dimension, Ndubueze Mbah
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	*Lunch*	Lunch
1:10- 1:20	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews
1:30- 3:00	Discussion of Reading: Sundiata, an epic, John Metzler	The Swahili Coast, Cymone Fourshey	The Asante and Igbo, Nwando Achebe	Applications to teaching and evaluation, John Metzler [2:00-4:00]	Free
3:00- 4:30	Free time or consultation with John Metzler @ Africana Library	Free time or consultation with John Metzler; Consultation about PBworks	Free time or consultation with John Metzler; Consultation about PBworks	Free time or consultation with John Metzler; Consultation about PBworks	Free
Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
Evening	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for socializing or reading

Week 3: July 27 – July 31, 2015 Encounters with Africa—The Slave Trades and the Integration of Africa into the World Economy, contd. (Big Eras Five and Six) & Colonial Encounters—The Empire Writes and Fights Back! (Big Eras Seven and Eight)
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Topic	The International Slave Trades	The International Slave Trades	African Diaspora Communities	African Diaspora Communities	Why Colonize?
8:30- 10:00	The Indian Ocean Slave Trade, Edward Alpers	Discussion of African slave narratives, Curtin and Equiano, John Metzler	Africans in North America, Pero Dagbovie	Africans in Colonial Brazil, Glenn Chambers	Documentary: This Magnificent African Cake
10:00- 10:15	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:15- 11:45	The Atlantic Slave Trade, Walter Hawthorne	African Resistance to the slave trade, Harry Odamtten	Documentary: The Language You Cry In, Pero Dagbovie and Nwando Achebe	Film: Quilombo Glenn Chambers	The penetration, conquest and occupation of Africa, Nwando Achebe
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1:10- 1:20	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews
1:30- 3:00	Databases for delving into African slavery , Walter Hawthorne	A new relationship with Africa: the era of legitimate trade Harry Odamtten	Africans in Europe, Documentary: The Life and Times of Sara Baartman, Nwando Achebe	Film: Quilombo, contd. Discussion of Quilombo Glenn Chambers	Applications to teaching and Evaluation of Week 3, John Metzler
3:00- 4:30	Free time or consultation with John Metzler @ Africana Library	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free
Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Dinner
Evening	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for socializing or reading

Week 4: August 3–7, 2015 Colonial Encounters—The Empire Writes and Fights Back!, contd. (Big Eras Seven and Eight)
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Topic	British Africa	Belgian and German Africa	French Africa	South Africa	Participants’ Voices
8:30-10:00	British colonial administrative policies in Africa, Shobana Shankar	Belgian Colonialism in Africa, Nwando Achebe Documentary: Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death	French colonial administrative policies in Africa, Hilary Jones	The Birth of Apartheid, Karen Flint	Participants share curriculum projects (Part 1)
10:00- 10:15	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:15- 11:45	Documentary and Discussion: Invitation to World Literature: Things Fall Apart, Nwando Achebe	German Colonialism and Resistance in Tanganyika: The Maji Maji, Dennis Laumann	What are we Frenchmen who are African?: Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy, Hilary Jones	Documentary and discussion: You Have Struck A Rock! Karen Flint	Participants share curriculum projects (Part 2)
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1:10- 1:20	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews	Teacher/Scholar Interviews
1:30-3:00	Ogu Umunwanyi: The Women’s War of 1929 (Nigeria), Nwando Achebe	German Colonialism and Resistance in South West Africa: Herero Uprising, Dennis Laumann	Applications to teaching , John Metzler	Road to Independence: the Global Struggle against Apartheid, David Wiley and Chris Root	Final evaluation session, John Metzler and Nwando Achebe
3:00-4:30	Free time or consultation with John Metzler @ Africana Library	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free time or consultation with John Metzler	Free
Dinner	Dinner	*Dinner*	Dinner	Dinner
Evening	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Available for library work, reading or socializing	Final Reception

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities

July 12 -August 7, 2015

Week 1: July 13– July 17, 2015

Week 2: July 20 – July 24, 2015

Week 3: July 27 – July 31, 2015

Week 4: August 3–7, 2015