BISR Winter-Spring Term 2023

February Courses

Money, Prices, and Crisis: a Political-Economic Introduction to Inflation
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
Schelling: Nature, Philosophy, and Existence
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Architectural Experiments: Revolutions in Design
Isi Litke
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Architecture
  • Political Theory
Chávez and Chavismo: Revolution from the Barrio
Geo Maher
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Latin America
  • politics
Mesopotamia: Civilization, Archaeology, and Material Culture
Türkan Pilavci
Wednesday, 12:00-3:00pm ET (8:00-11:00pm TRT)
  • archaeology
Decolonizing the Human: an Introduction to Sylvia Wynter (Sunday Section)
Joseph Earl Thomas
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Black Studies
  • Post-colonialism
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence (Tuesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Gun Studies
  • History
  • politics
Ecofeminism and Xenofeminism (Sunday Section)
Sophie Lewis
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • Ecology
  • Feminism
Playing to Win: an Introduction to Game Theory
Raphaële Chappe
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Mathematics
  • Social Theory
Pan-African Political Economy: Liberation and Sovereignty
Alírio Karina
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Political Economy
  • Post-colonialism
Anthropology and Ethnography: an Introduction
Kade Doyle Griffiths
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Anthropology
Ursula Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Theodra Bane
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
  • Political Theory
What is Autofiction? Beyond Truth and Fiction
Paige Sweet
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Reading the Odyssey
Bruce King
Laura Slatkin
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Classics
  • Poetry
Architectural Experiments: Revolutions in Design (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Architecture
  • Political Theory
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx (In-Person)
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Economy
The Book of Job: Punishment and Reward
Heather Ohaneson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Decolonizing the Human: an Introduction to Sylvia Wynter
Joseph Earl Thomas
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Black Studies
  • Post-colonialism
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Economy
Ecofeminism and Xenofeminism
Sophie Lewis
Saturday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • Ecology
  • Feminism
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Gun Studies
  • History
  • politics

March Courses

The Political Economy of Climate Change: From Green Planning to Climate Colonialism
Max Ajl
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Ecology
  • Political Economy
A Genealogy of Eros: Plato, Sappho, Foucault
Bruce King
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Classics
  • Poetry
  • Social Theory
The Trial and the Castle: Franz Kafka and Theory
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Critical Theory
  • Literature
Social Reproduction Theory: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Feminism
  • Marxism
Life in a Dish: an Introduction to Cellular Biology
Nafis Hasan
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
  • Philosophy
Slavery and Social Death: From the Plantation to the 21st Century
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Sociology
Saints, Witches, Hysterics: Christianity and Female Mysticism
Liane Carlson
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
A Science of the State? a Critical Introduction to Political Science
Rafael Khachaturian
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • politics
  • social science
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Samantha Hill
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Theory
Fredric Jameson: What is Postmodernism?
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Marxism
  • Social Theory
Fredric Jameson: What is Postmodernism? (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Marxism
  • Social Theory
Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Political Economy
  • Psychoanalysis
Nathanael West: America and Acid Satire
Jude Webre
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics
Adam Elliott-Cooper
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm GMT (1:30-4:30pm ET)
  • Cultural Studies
  • Marxism
  • politics
  • Post-colonialism
Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy in the Face of the Other
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Anarchism: an Introduction
R.H. Lossin
Thursday, 6:00-9:00pm ET
  • Political Theory
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: History, Proofs, Implications
Suman Ganguli
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Mathematics

April Courses

Courses Coming Soon!
Date(s) to be announced soon.