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Professor Heather Nathans
The Avatar Project
Have you ever wondered what it
would be like to live in another time?
Have you ever read a book or a play
and wondered how an audience from
a different century would have
understood it? This course invites
you to explore those questions as
you become a member of a 19th
century theatre audience. We will
dive back into the year 1852 – a
pivotal year in American politics and
culture – and spend a semester
building the life of a character from
that time period: by working with
professional
playwrights
and
performers,
exploring
historical
archives, and completing hand-on
projects that will immerse us in the
19th century world.
Honors Humanities
106 Open House
Come meet the Honors Humanities Faculty
Fellows for 2010 – 2011 and learn about
their spring sections of HHUM 106
Professor Sahar Khamis
New Media and Intercultural
Communication between the West
and the Arab World
This course explores the role of new
media, especially Internet-enabled
forms of communication, in fostering
intercultural
communication
and
international dialogue between the
West and the Arab world, by spreading
awareness and knowledge as well as by
fighting mutual misconceptions and
stereotypes. We will also try to shed
light on some of the obstacles that may
hinder new media in fulfilling these
roles, and how those obstacles can be
best addressed.
Mon. Oct. 25 3-4 pm
Anne Arundel Downstairs Lounge
Professor Keguro Macharia
Queer Africa
Queer genders and sexualities in Africa
have recently received a lot of attention.
As Euro-American activists and academics
have rediscovered queer African genders
and sexualities, African activities and
academics have created new social
movements, new intellectual paradigms,
and used new digital resources to imagine
queer futures that are rooted in African
particularities and intersect with global
initiatives.
This class tracks the braided histories of
Euro-American and African genders and
sexualities across sexology, history,
anthropology, literature, and critical
theory. We will focus on African print and
digital testimonials, asking what it means
to describe Africa as queer, how
contemporary queerness relates to
colonial and anti-colonial struggles, and
how to bridge Euro-American and African
frameworks. We will spend the first 10
weeks of the semester reading widely.
Subsequently, working in groups,
students will design and lead the final 4
weeks of class.