BISR Fall Term 2021

September Courses

Pleasure: Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • aesthetics
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
Heidegger: Being and Time
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Mental Health and the Law: Politics, Psychology, and Profit
Jenny Logan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Legal Studies
  • Political Economy
  • Psychology
The Madwoman in the Attic: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Amrita Ghosh
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
  • Post-colonialism
Road Trips: Photography, Culture, and American Mythos
Rotem Rozental
Thursday, 5:00-8:00pm PT
  • Photography
The Black Panther Party: Revolution, Repression, and Black Radical Politics
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • African-American studies
  • politics
  • Sociology
Theory and Play: an Introduction to Video Game Studies
Joseph Earl Thomas
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Video Game Studies
The Paris Commune: Revolution and Utopia
Asma Abbas
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Political Theory
Psychoanalysis and Politics (Tuesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • politics
  • Psychoanalysis
Glenn Gould: Music, Genius, and Interpretation (Sunday Section)
Nathan Shields
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Music
Introduction to Marxist Economics
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
Stoicism: a Philosophical Introduction
Heather Ohaneson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Classics
  • Philosophy
Heidegger: Being and Time (Wednesday Section)
Michael Stevenson
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Theory, Fiction, and the Self: an Introduction to Autotheory
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Literary Theory
Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution
Barnaby Raine
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
    Greek Mythology: Order and Chaos
    Bruce King
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Classics
    • mythology
    Neoliberalism and Political Theory: an Introduction to Wendy Brown
    Rafael Khachaturian
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Political Theory
    Flannery O’Connor: Literature, Violence, and the American Gothic
    Jude Webre
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • History
    • Literature
    Confessions: Philosophy, Literature, and Inner Life
    Samantha Hill
    Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
    • Literature
    • Philosophy
    Gothic Feminism: Repression, Transgression, and Rage
    Jessie Kindig
    Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Feminism
    • Feminist Theory
    • Literary Theory
    Introduction to Trauma
    Loren Dent
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    User Experience: Society, Technology, and Critical Design
    Nancy Smith
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Design
    • Technology
    Psychoanalysis and Politics
    Patrick Blanchfield
    Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
    • politics
    • Psychoanalysis

    October Courses

    Race and Technology
    Danya Glabau
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Critical Race Studies
    • Science Studies
    • Technology
    Capital, Colony, Core: an Introduction to World Systems Analysis
    Lygia Sabbag Fares
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Economics
    • Political Economy
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Body
    Michael Stevenson
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Philosophy
    Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Heresy, and Desire
    Rebecca Ariel Porte
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Poetry
    Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
    Ajay Singh Chaudhary
    Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Critical Theory
    War, Liberty, and Empire: the Fall of the Roman Republic
    Bruce King
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Classics
    • History
    Social Reproduction Theory: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism
    Lygia Sabbag Fares
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Economics
    • Feminism
    • Marxism
    Simone Weil: Passion and Philosophy
    Liane Carlson
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies
    Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: Money, Trust, and Deception
    R.H. Lossin
    Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
    • Literature
    Hammer and Hoe: Communism and Anti-Racism in the American South
    Nara Roberta Silva
    Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • African-American studies
    • History
    • Sociology
    Calculus: History and Concept
    Suman Ganguli
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Mathematics
    Crisis and the City: New York in the 1970s
    Andy Battle
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • History
    Edward Said: Culture and Empire
    Suzanne Schneider
    Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Post-colonialism
    The Sublime: Aesthetics, Terror, and Pleasure
    Rebecca Ariel Porte
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Art Theory
    • Philosophy
    What is Settler Colonialism? Land, Sovereignty, and Violence
    Theodra Bane
    Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
    • History
    • Political Theory
    The Making of the Soviet Union: Revolution, State, and Society
    Olena Lyubchenko
    Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • History
    • Political Theory
    Sociology and Social Control: an Introduction to Émile Durkheim
    Nara Roberta Silva
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • politics
    • Sociology
    The First Marxist: an Introduction to Friedrich Engels
    Audrey Nicolaides
    Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Marxism
    • Political Theory
    Food Sovereignty: Agriculture, Imperialism, and Climate Change
    Max Ajl
    Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
    • Ecology
    • Political Economy
    Surrealism: Art and the Unconscious
    Samantha Hill
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Literature
    • Philosophy
    Introduction to Gershom Scholem
    Yitzhak Lewis
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Religious Studies
    Is Sexual Liberation Possible? Freedom, Repression, and Capitalism
    Jeffrey Escoffier
    Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
    • Marxism
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Queer and Gender Studies
    • Social Theory

    November-December Courses

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