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BISR Winter-Spring Term 2021
January-February Courses
What is Social Class? Economy, Status, and Culture
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Coming Apart: Partitions, People, and Power
Suzanne Schneider
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
Political Theory
Post-colonialism
Proust in Time: The Prisoner
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Archive Theory: Knowledge, Power, and Photography (Thursday Section)
Rotem Rozental
Thursday, 5:00-8:00pm PT
Art Theory
Media Studies
Femonationalism: Race, Reproduction, and Right-Wing Feminism (Thursday Section)
Sophie Lewis
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Feminism
politics
Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Reason, Morality, and Freedom (Thursday Section)
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Off the Books: Labor, Inequality, and the Informal Economy
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Economics
Political Economy
Sabotage: Violence, Theory, and Protest
R.H. Lossin
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
politics
Krazy Kat: Comics, Modernism, and Popular Culture
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud (Wednesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Psychoanalysis
The Supreme Court: History, Politics, and Minority Rule
Jude Webre
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
politics
Sophocles: Tragedy and the Limits of Knowledge
Bruce King
Laura Slatkin
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Classics
Literature
Late Style: Music, Transcendence, and Catastrophe
Nathan Shields
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Music
The Book of Job: Punishment and Reward
Heather Ohaneson
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm PT
Philosophy
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Psychoanalysis
Theories of the State: Politics, Institutions, and Power
Rafael Khachaturian
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Political Theory
politics
The Problem of Evil: Augustine, Nietzsche, Arendt
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Political Theory
Decolonizing the Human: an Introduction to Sylvia Wynter (Wednesday Section)
Paige Sweet
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Post-colonialism
Social Theory
Decolonizing the Human: an Introduction to Sylvia Wynter
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Post-colonialism
Social Theory
Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
Anthony Alessandrini
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Anthropology
Political Theory
Post-colonialism
Frantz Fanon: an Introduction (Wednesday Section)
Anthony Alessandrini
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Anthropology
Political Theory
Post-colonialism
Archive Theory: Knowledge, Power, and Photography
Rotem Rozental
Tuesday, 5:30-8:30pm PT
Art Theory
Media Studies
Kant’s Practical Philosophy: Reason, Morality, and Freedom
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Femonationalism: Race, Reproduction, and Right-Wing Feminism
Sophie Lewis
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
Feminism
politics
March Courses
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Marxism
Political Economy
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx (Tuesday Section)
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Marxism
Political Economy
Music, Art, and Ideology: an Introduction to Opera
Nathan Shields
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Music
War and Visual Culture
Shimrit Lee
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization (Wednesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Shulamith Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex
Sophie Lewis
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm EST
Making People Up: Race, Racism, and Racial Formation
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Saints, Witches, Hysterics: Christianity and Female Mysticism (Sunday Section)
Liane Carlson
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
The New Deal: Economic Crisis and Social Democracy
Jude Webre
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Prediction and Pandemic: an Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology
Suman Ganguli
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Feminist Economics: an Introduction
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure
Bruce King
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
The Making of the Modern Middle East: From Postcolonialism to the Arab Spring
Suzanne Schneider
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Reading Sianne Ngai: Aesthetics, Emotions, and Capitalism
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Saints, Witches, Hysterics: Christianity and Female Mysticism
Liane Carlson
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality
Michael Stevenson
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Philosophy
International Political Economy: an Introduction
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Ingeborg Bachmann: Literature and Anti-Fascism
Asma Abbas
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
April Courses
Carl Schmitt: Politics and Conflict
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Political Theory
On Decadence: Aesthetics, Culture, and Decline
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literary Theory
Literature
Thomas Mann: Dr. Faustus
Nathan Shields
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Music
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Bruce King
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
The Peace Process: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Geopolitics
Suzanne Schneider
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
History
politics
Center and Periphery: Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Marxism
Post-colonialism
Origins of German Romanticism
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
Philosophy
International Relations: a Critical Introduction
Audrey Nicolaides
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm ET
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism
Theodra Bane
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Feminism
Philosophy
Power and Resistance: Social Movements in Theory and Practice
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
politics
Sociology
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism (Sunday Section)
Samantha Hill
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm EST
Philosophy
Political Theory
Rosa Luxemburg: The Accumulation of Capital
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Marxism
Political Economy
Thinking Machines: an Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Frank Shepard
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Computer Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse: Eros and Civilization
Jeffrey Escoffier
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Marxism
Political Theory
Psychoanalysis
Kaja Silverman’s Male Subjectivity at the Margins: Masculinity, Fantasy, and Libidinal Politics
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Art Theory
Feminism
Queer and Gender Studies
Introduction to Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Philosophy
Theorizing Repression: From Psychoanalysis to Counterinsurgency Theory
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 3:00-6:00pm EST
History
politics
Psychoanalysis
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Samantha Hill
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Political Theory