Discussion and response one

Tuesday, Professor John Jennings, Guest Speaker

Required Reading:  

Jennings, J. “Forms of Future/Past Black Kirby Afrofuturism and the Visual Technologies of Resistance.”

Required Podcast on iLearn. John Jennings & Afro-Futurism.mp3

Recommended & Optional Video: Sun Ra & His Arkestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brxIieN5g74

Parliament Funkadelic -Bring the Funk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjKFCYzqq-A

John Jennings Interview at Planet Deep South: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbEvAvnkZUJohn Jennings TALK AT MIT: https://cmsw.mit.edu/video-and-podcast-john-jennings-the-cipher-back-to-here/John Jennings WITH DAMIAN DUFFY SyFy wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=jGoBFTGVCqE&feature=emb_logoJohn Jennings Taking KINDRED at Chicago Humanities Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=a4HRKFvI3IA&feature=emb_logoJohn Jennings HUNTINGTON LIBRARY talk: https://www.huntington.org/videos-recorded-programs/presidents-series-parable-of-the-sowerJohn Jennings Current Projects:Mentor-consultant for Starfish Accelerator project: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/accelerator-starfish-launches-program-diverse-talent-1271866Developmental Editor of his own line of graphic novels  https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2020/02/20/introducing-megascope/Creative Mentor for six projects for the Sundance Institute's New Frontiers grant: http://www.sundance.org/programs/new-frontier

Thursday, Guest Speaker, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Cathy Thomas.

Required Videos: 

1. Marlon Riggs, Ethnic Notions, 1986. Access at:https://ucr.kanopy.com/product/ethnic-notions-0
2. Media Policy & You: Crash Course Media Literacy #9 (11:33). (Accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVaZnxYKKdM&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=10).
3. The Dark(er) Side of Media: Crash Course Media Literacy #10 (10:35). (Accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7j11Wpjiw&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=11).