BISR Summer Term 2023

June Courses

Feminist Economics: Gender, Labor, and Inequality
Lygia Sabbag Fares
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Political Economy
From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: an Introduction to Mark Fisher
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
  • Critical Theory
  • Political Theory
  • Social Theory
Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition
Nara Roberta Silva
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition (In-Person)
Nara Roberta Silva
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
Becoming Cyborg: Philosophy, Science, and Science-Fiction
Danya Glabau
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Feminism
  • Technology
Don Quixote: Into the World of the Book
Rachel Stein
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Lab Meat: Science, Climate, and Cellular Agriculture
Nafis Hasan
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Biology
  • Science Studies
  • Technology
Ethnopornography: Race, Erotics, and Domination
Alírio Karina
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
Late-Capitalist Architecture (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Late-Capitalist Architecture
Isi Litke
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Architecture
  • Political Economy
Philosophy of Mind: Thinking and Consciousness
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm EST
  • Philosophy
Gayl Jones: Mosquito
Joseph Earl Thomas
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • African-American studies
  • Literature
Narcissism: Pathology, Culture, and Politics
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution
Audrey Nicolaides
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Critical Theory
  • History
  • Marxism
Bollywood: Art, Culture, and Hegemony
Amrita Ghosh
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • art
  • Cultural Studies
  • Film Studies
  • politics
  • Post-colonialism
Heidegger/Arendt: Philosophy, Influence, and Being
Samantha Hill
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Philosophy
  • Political Theory
Walking and Philosophy: Thinking in Motion
Heather Ohaneson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
Queering Fanon: Colonialism, Gender, and Sexuality
Adriana Garriga-López
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
Collections and Curation: Objects, Knowledge, and Desire
Türkan Pilavci
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Art History
Gershom Scholem: Mysticism and the Philosophy of History
Yitzhak Lewis
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Religious Studies
Introduction to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith, and Death (In-Person)
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Philosophy
  • religion

July Courses

Jean Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness
Michael Stevenson
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Philosophy
Neoliberalism and Identity
Theodra Bane
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Cultural Studies
  • Political Theory
Puppets and Automata: Art, Anxiety, and the Uncanny (In-Person)
Isi Litke
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • aesthetics
  • art
  • Art Theory
Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (In-Person)
Danielle Drori
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Political Theory
  • politics
Late Style: Music, Transcendence, and Catastrophe
Nathan Shields
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • aesthetics
  • Music
Center and Periphery: Marxism and Postcolonial Theory
Nara Roberta Silva
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Post-colonialism
What is Dialectics?
Artemy Magun
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Marxism
  • Philosophy
Mental Health and the Law: Politics, Psychology, and Profit
Jenny Logan
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Legal Studies
  • Political Economy
  • Psychology
Mike Davis: City of Quartz (In-Person)
Andy Battle
Wednesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Political Economy
  • Urban Studies
The Abyss I am Made Of: an Introduction to Clarice Lispector
Paige Sweet
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
The Abyss I am Made Of: an Introduction to Clarice Lispector (In-Person)
Paige Sweet
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
Philosophy of History
Michael Stevenson
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • Philosophy
McCarthyism: American Politics and the Paranoid Style
Jude Webre
Monday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • History
  • politics
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Bruce King
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Classics
  • Poetry
American Policing: History, Politics, and Society
Patrick Blanchfield
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • culture
  • History
  • politics
Introduction to Trauma
Loren Dent
Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm ET
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
What it Means to See: Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes
Rotem Rozental
Wednesday, 7:00-10:00pm ET (4:00-7:00pm PT)
  • aesthetics
  • Photography
Convalescence: Sickness, Society, and Resignation
Samantha Hill
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
  • Literature
  • Philosophy