BISR Summer Term 2021

June Courses

Modern Sappho: Poetry, Sexuality, and Theory
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • culture
  • Literature
  • Poetry
Soviet Music: Art, State, and Revolution
Nathan Shields
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Music
Kierkegaard: Either/Or (Wednesday Section)
Heather Ohaneson
Wednesday, 5:00-8:00pm PT
  • Philosophy
  • religion
Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition (Tuesday Section)
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
Modern Monetary Theory: a Critical Introduction
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
Truth and Beauty: Kant’s Critical Aesthetics
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • aesthetics
  • Philosophy
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe’s The Idea of Africa: Colonialism, Theory, and Absolute Discourse
Alírio Karina
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • Post-colonialism
Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution
Audrey Nicolaides
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Critical Theory
  • History
  • Marxism
William Morris: Art, Socialism, and Utopia
R.H. Lossin
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • art
  • History
  • politics
Myth, Punishment, and the Rising Waters: Reading the Flood
Angela Roskop Erisman
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
  • Religious Studies
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition (Sunday Section)
Samantha Hill
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • Political Theory
Theories of Photography: Representation, Communication, and Aesthetics
Rotem Rozental
Tuesday, 5:00-8:00pm PT
  • Art Theory
Kierkegaard: Either/Or
Heather Ohaneson
Monday, 5:00-8:00pm PT
  • Philosophy
  • religion
What is Family Abolition? (Monday Section)
Sophie Lewis
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Marxism
  • Queer and Gender Studies
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literary Theory
  • Literature
  • Psychoanalysis
Fiction, Finance, and the Postmodern: William Gaddis’s JR
David Sugarman
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
American Policing: History, Politics, and Society
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • culture
  • History
  • politics
Feminism and Islam: Religion, Gender, and Liberation
K. Soraya Batmanghelichi
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Islamic Studies
  • Religious Studies
Philosophy of History
Suzanne Schneider
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Philosophy
Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition
Nara Roberta Silva
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Theory

July Courses

Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction to Max Weber
Nara Roberta Silva
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Economy
  • Sociology
Clarice Lispector: Modernism, Mysticism, and Morality
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Less Than Zero: Finance, Monetary Policy, and the Federal Reserve
Raphaële Chappe
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
Philosophy and Deconstruction: an Introduction to Derrida
Yitzhak Lewis
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Humans and Culture: an Introduction to Anthropology
Kate Doyle Griffiths
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Anthropology
Giovanni Arrighi: The Long 20th Century
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Sociology
Madness: Society and the Psyche
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm EST
  • History
  • politics
  • Psychoanalysis
User Experience: Society, Technology, and Critical Design
Nancy Smith
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Design
  • Technology
State, Power, and Democratic Socialism: an Introduction to Nicos Poulantzas
Rafael Khachaturian
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
The Protestant Reformation: Theology, History, and Modernity
Liane Carlson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
  • religion
  • Religious Studies
  • Theology
Silvia Federici: Women, Capitalism, and the Body
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Marxism
  • Political Economy
American Populism: Class, Economy, and Radical Democracy
Jude Webre
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • politics
Culture, Feeling, and Capital: an Introduction to Raymond Williams
Anthony Alessandrini
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Political Theory
Luce Irigaray: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Difference
Abby Kluchin
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Psychoanalysis
What is Analytic Philosophy?
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Jacques Lacan: The Desire of the Other
Loren Dent
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
  • Psychoanalysis

BISR London

Reading Jacqueline Rose: Literature, Politics, and Psychoanalysis
Danielle Drori
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm BST (1:30-4:30pm ET)
  • Literature
  • Psychoanalysis
John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Poetry, Tyranny, and Disobedience
Orlando Reade
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm GMT (1:30-4:30pm ET)
  • Literature
  • Poetry
Courses Coming Soon!
Date(s) to be announced soon.