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ANTHRO 2626: Research Design/Proposal Writing

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/11828

This course is a practicum designed to help students craft effective research and grant proposals, learn how to constructively critique others’ proposals, and develop enduring collaborative relationships. Many writing problems are fundamentally thinking and design problems. For this reason, conceptual structure, project design, and methodological choices will occupy a great deal of our time. The first half of the semester will focus on Wenner-Gren-type proposals, the second half on proposals for the National Science Foundation and similar funders. 

AFRAMER 209A: Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications Jump to Today

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/12916
Course Description: In a story titled Africa Rising (2011), The Economist argued that the continent epitomizes both the "transformative promise of [capitalist ] growth and its bleakest dimensions." This workshop will explore Africa's changing place in the world - and the new economies, legalities, socialities, and cultural forms that have arisen there. It will also interrogate the claim that the African present is a foreshadowing of processes beginning to occur elsewhere; that, therefore, it is a...
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African and African American Studies 189x: Medicine, Culture, and Society

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2017

This course examines the changing place of medicine in the long history of modernity. Focusing on key moments - the birth of the clinic, the colonial frontier (where biomedicine met its therapeutic "others"), the consolidation of medicine as self-governing profession, the age of genomics and biocapital - it explores the distinctive role of medical knowledge in the making of modernist persons, identities, and social worlds. Readings are drawn from across the social sciences, with material from Africa, Europe, and North America. Part lecture, part discussion, the class will be open to...

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AFRAMER 209B: Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications Jump to Today

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2017
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/20926

This course  is being taught as part of the African Studies Workshop at Harvard (ASW). It will consist of two components: (i) a public session, to be held every Monday evening at 6.00-8.00, at which a speaker invited from outside the university, a member of the Harvard faculty, or an advanced graduate student will present a pre-circulated paper to an audience similarly composed of faculty, visiting scholars, graduate students, and Africanists from other institutions in the greater Boston area. Each session will include a brief introduction to the paper by its author, a commentary by...

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