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September Courses
Feeling the Atmosphere: Climate, Affect, and the Anthropocene
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Affect Theory
Ecology
Political Theory
The Origins of the Cosmos: Plato’s Timaeus
Bruce King
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Classics
Philosophy
Racecraft: Race, Society, and Superstition
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
African-American studies
Critical Race Studies
History
Central Banking: Finance, Politics, and Monetary Policy
Raphaële Chappe
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Economics
Political Economy
Gender and the Avant-Garde (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Art Theory
Feminism
Queer and Gender Studies
Radical Theology: an Introduction to Karl Barth
Heather Ohaneson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Theology
Crisis and the City: New York in the 1970s (In-Person)
Andy Battle
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
Introduction to Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Theodra Bane
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Feminism
Feminist Theory
Social Theory
Excavations: an Introduction to Archaeology
Türkan Pilavci
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Ancient History
archaeology
Introduction to Trauma
Loren Dent
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Sociology
Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Reason, Morality, and Freedom
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
The Corporation: a Critical Introduction
Jenny Logan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Legal Studies
Political Economy
Islamic Ethics: Philosophy, Politics, and Sharia Law
Sami Al-Daghistani
Tuesday, 1:00-4:00pm ET / 7:00-10:00pm GMT +2
Islamic Studies
Philosophy
religion
The Problem of Evil: Augustine, Nietzsche, Arendt
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Political Theory
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud (Tuesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Psychoanalysis
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Psychoanalysis
October Courses
Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Critical Theory
The Black Atlantic and Beyond: an Introduction to Paul Gilroy
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Critical Race Studies
Cultural Studies
Post-colonialism
Sociology
The Rebirth of Metaphysics and Morality: Anscombe, Murdoch, Foot
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
Joseph Earl Thomas
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Technology
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Samantha Hill
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Political Theory
Mining: Industry, Ecology, and Capitalism
R.H. Lossin
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Edward Said: Culture and Empire
Suzanne Schneider
Sunday, 1:00-4:00pm ET
Post-colonialism
Heidegger: Truth, Technology, and Poetry (In-Person)
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Introduction to Marxist Economics
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Economics
Political Economy
Decolonial Theory: an Introduction
Geo Maher
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Decolonial Theory
politics
Post-colonialism
The Ramayana: Myth, Morality, and Conflict
Bruce King
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Classics
Literature
What is Social Democracy?
Barnaby Raine
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Left politics
Marxism
Political Theory
politics
Thomas Bernhard: Infamy, Brutality, and Literature (In-Person)
Lauren K. Wolfe
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Prison Abolition: Freedom, Punishment, and the Carceral State
Theodra Bane
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
African-American studies
Critical Race Studies
Political Theory
Ruins: Beauty, Feeling, and Catastrophe (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Art Theory
Social Theory
Ruins: Beauty, Feeling, and Catastrophe
Isi Litke
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Art Theory
Social Theory
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
politics
Psychoanalysis
November Courses
Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Critical Theory
Marxism
Philosophy
What’s Next? Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World
Türkan Pilavci
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Anthropology
archaeology
art
Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (In-Person)
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Political Economy
Post-colonialism
Sociology
On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran (In-Person)
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Philosophy
Samir Amin: Dependency, Development, and the Making of the Global South
Max Ajl
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Marxism
Political Economy
Post-colonialism
Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault and Biopolitics
Theodra Bane
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Political Theory
Social Theory
Sophocles: Tragedy and the Limits of Knowledge
Bruce King
Laura Slatkin
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Classics
Literature
What is Deconstruction? Philosophy and Literary Theory
Yitzhak Lewis
Thursday, 7:00-10:00pm EST
Literary Theory
Philosophy
John Maynard Keynes: Beyond Economics
Barnaby Raine
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Political Economy
Political Theory
Silence: Art, Literature, and Philosophy
Samantha Hill
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Philosophy
The Algorithmic Sublime: Technology, Infinity, and Transcendence
Frank Shepard
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Computer Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Technology
Welfare: Law, Poverty, and Social Reproduction
Jenny Logan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Legal Studies
Political Economy
The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Art History
Art Theory
The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Isi Litke
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Art History
Art Theory
Montaigne and Pascal: Inventing the Self
Heather Ohaneson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Self-Destruction
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan: The Desire of the Other
Loren Dent
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Psychoanalysis
The Political Economy of the Soviet Union
Olena Lyubchenko
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
Marxism
Political Economy
Feminist Sex Wars: the Politics of Pleasure
Sophie Lewis
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Feminism
Feminist Theory