SHUM 6708

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SHUM 6708
Cobalt to Digital Humanities: Kongo at the "Heart of" IoT

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

The 2 Congos, especially Congo-Kinshasa, are central to any contemporary discussions of digital humanities, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Our course will transcend the "twin colonization of time and space" by engaging the Congo region in 3 key aspects: the geological timeline of the Congo River; the lives of the indigenous Congo forest inhabitants; and the migration of Bantu communities over the last two millennia. Alternative forms of marking time deliberately counterbalance the digital economy to which the region has been unwillingly, and irrevocably, yoked.


Enrollment Priority REF-FA25 Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 4708

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19619 SHUM 6708   SEM 101

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    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person