With the largest and fastest-growing youth population of any continent, Africa is the site of numerous cultural, political, and economic shifts that ripple across the globe. This course centers young Africans in different geographical places and historical moments to better understand how sociopolitical processes like globalization, urbanization, and development - as well as events like social movements, conflicts, and health crises - transform societies. ANTH 467: Youth Cultures of AfricaInstructors: K. Smalls, S. Telep | Mondays 2:00 PM - 4:50 PM  

 Is computing only for big companies, research centers, states and ellites? Can computing be otherwise?The course begins with the observation that grassroots spaces are sites of critical imagination where alternatives to the interlocking crises of the present emerge, however brief, unfinished and precarious. As instructor, I draw from my experiences of research and advocacy with rural communities in Colombia and from a decade-long engagement with networks of community-engaged practitioners and scholars in Latin America. Credits: 3 hoursTime: MW/ 3:30pm-4:50pmLocation: 1057 Lincoln...

Course:ARCH 403: spatial theories from/with the CaribbeanT/R: 11:00am - 12:20pmAt the Architecture Building, RM 205  Description:THE CARIBBEAN has long been rendered peripheral in architectural history and theory. This seminar instead approaches it as an affective ground for rethinking space altogether. Through atmospheric, archipelagic [Glissant], embodied [Wynter], and subaltern [Fanon, Césaire] modes of inquiry, we will explore spatial theories from/with the Caribbean, refusing extraction in favor of relational, situated, and sensorial ways of...