BISR Winter-Spring Term 2023 - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

BISR

BISR Winter-Spring Term 2023

April Courses

Julia Kristeva: Feminism, Abjection, and Theory
Paige Sweet
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminist Theory
  • Psychoanalysis
The Subway: Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Social Life (In-Person)
Andy Battle
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Sociology
  • Urban Studies
What is Conservatism?
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Theory
  • politics
Art Before Art: Aesthetic Production in the Ancient World
Türkan Pilavci
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • archaeology
  • art
Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality (In-Person)
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Strangers to Ourselves: an Introduction to Freud (In-Person)
Loren Dent
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Psychoanalysis
Transgender Marxism: an Introduction
Kade Doyle Griffiths
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Queer and Gender Studies
  • Queer Theory
The Ancient Novel? Magic, Myth, and Metamorphosis
Bruce King
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • aesthetics
  • Media Studies
  • politics
Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism, Fiction, and Politics
Yitzhak Lewis
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Theorizing Repression: From Psychoanalysis to Counterinsurgency Theory
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • History
  • politics
  • Psychoanalysis
Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction to Max Weber
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Economy
  • Sociology
What is Poetry? Poetics, Language, and Feeling
Joseph Earl Thomas
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
  • Poetry
Imagining Utopia: Politics, Planning, and the (Im)Possible (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Theory
  • Social Theory

May Courses

Giovanni Arrighi: The Long 20th Century
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Sociology
Abortion and the Law
Jenny Logan
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Legal Studies
What is Settler Colonialism? Land, Sovereignty, and Violence
Theodra Bane
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Political Theory
Culture, Affect, and Politics: an Introduction to Raymond Williams
Anthony Alessandrini
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Political Theory
The Political Economy of Climate Change: From Green Planning to Climate Colonialism
Max Ajl
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Ecology
  • Political Economy