Course Terms Archive - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

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BISR Chicago Winter-Spring Term 2024

Winter-Spring Courses

A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx (Chicago)
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BISR Winter-Spring Term 2024

January-February Courses

A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx (In-Person)
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Reason, Freedom, and the Ground of Consciousness
Proust in Time: Swann’s Way
Annie Ernaux: Shame and the Politics of Memory (In-Person)
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism
Architectural Experiments: Revolutions in Design
Architectural Experiments: Revolutions in Design (In-Person)
Artistic Realism: From Representation to Revolution
Theory and Play: an Introduction to Video Game Studies
Augustine: The City of God
Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
Church and State: Law, Politics, and Religion
Reading the Iliad
Waterfronts: Cities, Shipping, and the Sea (In-Person)
Samir Amin: Dependency, Development, and the Making of the Global South
Modern Palestine: a Historical Introduction
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March Courses

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April Courses

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BISR London Fall Term 2023

Fall Term

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BISR Language Learning and Critique Fall Term 2023

BISR Language Learning

Critical Ancient Greek
Critical Sanskrit

BISR Reading Groups

Reading Group: Plato’s Dialogues
Reading Group: Plato’s Apology

BISR London Winter-Spring Term 2022

John Maynard Keynes: Beyond Economics

BISR London Fall Term 2021

Fall Courses

Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics

West Coast Fall Term 2020

Fall Courses

Montaigne and Pascal: Inventing the Self
Reading Susan Sontag: Photography, Experience, and Spectacle
Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics

London Fall Term 2020

Fall Courses

From Rousseau to Foucault: Introduction to Social Theory
What is Autofiction? Narrative, Memoir, and Representation
Albert Camus: From Existentialism to Postcolonialism
Bobbies in Babylon: Colonialism, Racism, and British Policing
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BISR Online Courses

McCarthyism: American Politics and the Paranoid Style
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence (Tuesday Section)

West Coast Summer Term 2020

Summer Courses

Introduction to Kierkegaard: Doubt, Anxiety, and the Human Condition
Theories of Photography: Representation, Communication, and Aesthetics
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence
COVID-19: Virology, Pandemic, and Immunity
Don Quixote: Into the World of the Book