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BISR Fall Term 2022
September Courses
Walter Benjamin: On the Concept of History (In-Person)
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Critical Theory
History
Proust in Time: Time Regained
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Literature
Capturing the Camera: Feminism and Photography
Rotem Rozental
Tuesday, 4:00-7:00pm PT (7:00-10:00pm ET)
Art Theory
Feminism
Photography
Capitalism and Creative Destruction: an Introduction to Joseph Schumpeter
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Economics
Strangers to Ourselves: an Introduction to Freud
Loren Dent
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Psychoanalysis
Imperial Entanglements: an Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (In-Person)
Nara Roberta Silva
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Marxism
Post-colonialism
Keeping up with the Joneses: Understanding Status and Society
Barnaby Raine
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Political Economy
Social Theory
Sociology
Imaginary Numbers: Theory, Mathematics, and Possibility
Suman Ganguli
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Mathematics
Reading the Iliad
Bruce King
Laura Slatkin
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Classics
Literature
Art and the Unthinkable: an Introduction to Dada
Samantha Hill
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Art History
Art Theory
History
New Sounds: Classical Music in the 21st Century
Nathan Shields
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
culture
Music
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
Philosophy
Contemporary Black Art and Aesthetics: an Introduction
Joseph Earl Thomas
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
aesthetics
African-American studies
art
Art Theory
October Courses
Feeling the Atmosphere: Climate, Affect, and the Anthropocene
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Affect Theory
Ecology
Political Theory
Future Queer: an Introduction to Jose Muñoz
Paige Sweet
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Performance
Queer Theory
Antitrust Law: a Critical Introduction
Jenny Logan
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Legal Studies
Political Economy
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk and Beyond
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
African-American studies
Sociology
Psychoanalysis and Politics (Tuesday Section)
Patrick Blanchfield
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
politics
Psychoanalysis
Lived Experience: an Introduction to Phenomenology
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Rosa Luxemburg: Global Capitalism and the Contemporary World (In-Person)
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Marxism
Political Economy
From the Gothic to the Postcolonial: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (In-Person)
Christine Smallwood
Date(s) to be announced soon.
Literature
Post-colonialism
Ancient Egypt: Art, Archaeology, and Empire
Türkan Pilavci
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Ancient History
archaeology
Art History
Food Sovereignty: Agriculture, Imperialism, and Climate Change
Max Ajl
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Ecology
Political Economy
Decolonial Revolution: Algeria, Violence, and Liberation
Elizabeth Marcus
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Film Studies
History
Post-colonialism
The Pervert’s Guide to Slavoj Žižek: Philosophy, Communism, and Provocation
Artemy Magun
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Political Theory
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism
Theodra Bane
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Feminism
Philosophy
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Philosophy, Fact, and Silence
Michael Stevenson
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
politics
Psychoanalysis
November-December Courses
Enchanting Modernity: Storytelling and Mysticism
Yitzhak Lewis
Thursday, 7:00-10:00pm ET
Jewish Studies
Literature
Mysticism
Modern Monetary Theory: a Critical Introduction
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Economics
Political Economy
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