New York Winter Term 2017 - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

BISR

New York Winter Term 2017

February Courses

James Baldwin: Native Son
Asma Abbas
Saturday, 2-5pm
  • Literature
Disaster Capitalism
Danya Glabau
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Anthropology
  • Political Economy
  • Science Studies
  • Technology
Jane Eyre: Gender and Affect
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Feminism
  • Literature
The Iron Cage: Calvin, Weber, Foucault
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Political Theory
  • Social Theory
Separation Anxiety: Religion and the Modern State
Suzanne Schneider
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • History
  • Political Theory
  • Religious Studies
Cybernetics and Art
Lindsay Caplan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Art Theory
Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction and Difference
Yitzhak Lewis
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Philosophy
Reading the Iliad
Bruce King
Laura Slatkin
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Classics
  • Literature
Feminist Futures
Danya Glabau
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Feminism
  • Science Studies
  • Technology

March Courses

Things Fall Apart: Post-Colonialism and the Novel
Suzanne Schneider
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
  • Post-colonialism
Life in the Anthropocene
Danya Glabau
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Anthropology
  • Social Theory
Roland Barthes: Beyond Interpretation
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Philosophy
Capitalism in Western Thought
Raphaële Chappe
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Political Economy
  • Social Theory
Sado-Masochism: Economies of Desire and Recognition
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Critical Theory
  • Political Theory
Strangers to Ourselves: An Introduction to Freud
Loren Dent
Sunday, 5-8pm
  • Psychoanalysis
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Romanticism and the Radical Imagination
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Sunday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Poetry
Angela Davis and Prison Abolitionism
Anthony Alessandrini
Sunday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Political Theory
  • Social Theory
Videogames, Strategy, and Critical Theory
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Critical Theory
  • Media Studies
  • Social Theory
Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality
Matt Moss
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Philosophy

April Courses

Chaos Theory: Complexity, Emergence, and Chaos
Raphaële Chappe
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Economics
  • Mathematics
God or Nature: Spinoza’s Ethics
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Philosophy
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Literature
Soviet Life: Communism, Transformation, and Reflection
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • History
  • Literature
  • Political Economy
  • Political Theory
Feminism and Empire
K. Soraya Batmanghelichi
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Feminism
  • Post-colonialism
Bruno Latour: Science, Society, and Politics
Danya Glabau
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Science Studies
  • Social Theory
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Michael Stevenson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Philosophy
Empire, Nation-State, Caliphate: The Modern Middle East
Suzanne Schneider
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • History
Alan Turing: Algorithms, Computation, Machines
Suman Ganguli
Frank Shepard
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Mathematics
  • Technology
Socrates: Philosophy, Provocation, and Democratic Intolerance
Bruce King
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm
  • Classics
  • Philosophy