FR248 Timetable

Please note that seminars are largely student-led.

Week 1 Introduction to the module

Lecture: Historical & Critical perspectives

Seminar: Discussion of key terms

Screening before Week 2 of Pépé-le-Moko

Week 2

Lecture: Colonial Discourses, Colonial Memory

Seminar: Julien Duvivier, Pépé le Moko (1937)

Week 3

Lecture: A Scramble for Resources

Seminar: Gauz, Cocoaïans. Naissance d’une nation chocolat

Week 4

Lecture: Algeria Revisited in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête

Seminar: Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête

Week 5

Lecture: Remembering Albert Camus's L’Étranger through Meursault, contre-enquête

Seminar: Meursault, contre-enquête

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7

Lecture: Genocide and Colonial Memory: Rwanda and Burundi

Seminar: Gaël Faye, Petit Pays

Weeks 8

Lecture: Childhood Memory of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide in Gaël Faye's Petit Pays

Seminar: Petit Pays

Screening: before Week 9 of Sammy Baloji's L’Arbre de l’authenticité

Week 9

Lecture: The Congolese Rainforest: Eco-critical Memories

Seminar: Sammy Baloji, L’Arbre de l’authenticité

Week 10

Lecture: Conclusion of Module and Focus on Assessment

Seminar: Assessment Discussion and Practice