Courses

Humanistic Perspectives on History and Society: Revolution
by HUM 597 / COM 597 / ENG 593
Zahid R. Chaudhary (English), Benjamin Conisbee Baer (Comparative Literature)
Tags:  Spring 2019
Ideographs, Images and Emblems
by COM 539 / HUM 585 / ENG 539
Thomas W. Hare (Comparative Literature) & Russell J. Leo (English)
Tags:  Fall 2018
Interdisciplinarity and Antidisciplinarity
by HUM 583
D. Graham Burnett (History)
Tags:  Fall 2018
Alphabetographies
by HUM 595 / MOD 506 / ENG 594
Eduardo L. Cadava (English) & Susan Meiselas (Humanities Council)
Tags:  Fall 2018
Ancient Literary Thought: Greece and China
by HUM 596 / EAS 537 / CLA 596 / HLS 596
Andrew L. Ford (Classics) & Martin Kern (East Asian Studies)
Tags:  Spring 2018
Freud and His Readers
by HUM 584 / COM 586 / GER 584
Peter Brooks (Comp Lit), Brigid Doherty (German and Art & Archaeology)
Tags:  Fall 2017
What is a material? History, Architecture, Environment
by HUM 595 / ARC 593 / MOD 551
Lucia Allais (Architecture), Forrest M. Meggers (Architecture)
Tags:  Fall 2017
Conflict Shorelines II: Conflict, Settlement, & Environmental Violence
by ENG 571 / HUM 571 / ARC 570
Eduardo L. Cadava (English) and Eyal Weizman (Architecture)
Tags:  Spring 2017
Havana: Architecture, Urbanism, and Literature in Transition
by HUM 597 / MOD 575 / ARC 597 / LAS 597
Beatriz Colomina (Architecture) and Rubén Gallo (Spanish and Portuguese)
Tags:  Spring 2017
Interdisciplinarity and Antidisciplinarity
by HUM 583
D. Graham Burnett (History)
Tags:  Spring 2017
Non/Human: Ecology, Morphology, and Design in Animals and Plants
by HUM 595 / ARC 595 / SPA 599 / ART 595 / MOD 595
Spyridon Papapetros (Architecture) and Rachel L. Price (Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures)
Tags:  Fall 2016
Case Histories, Life Stories
by HUM 596 / GER 596 / FRE 596 / COM 596
Peter P. Brooks (Comparative Literature) and Brigid Doherty (German and Art & Archaeology)
Tags:  Fall 2016
Spinoza’s Intellectual World
by HUM 597 / HIS 557 / ENG 597
Anthony Grafton (History) and Russell Leo (English)
Tags:  Spring 2016
Non-Specialists and the Arts
by HUM 598 / MUS 508
Scott Burnham (Musicology) and Barbara White (Music Composition)
Tags:  Fall 2015
Conflict Shoreline I / Amazonia: A Botanical Archaeology of Genocide
by LAS 505 / ENG 506 / ARC 540 /HUM 505 / URB 505
Eduardo L. Cadava (English), Paulo Carvalho Ravares (PLAS) and Eyal Weizman (Architecture)
Tags:  Fall 2015
Novelty Historicized
by HUM 595 / COM 595 / PHI 595 / HOS 515
Daniel Garber (Philosophy) and Eileen Reeves (Comparative Literature)
Tags:  Spring 2015
Interpretation - Experience
by HUM 599 / ENG 548 / HOS 589
D. Graham Burnett (History of Science), Jeff Dolven (English)
Tags:  Spring 2015
Drawing and the Line in Literature and the Visual Arts
by HUM 598
Susan Stewart (English) and Eve Aschheim (Lewis Center for the Arts)
Tags:  Spring 2015
Observing the World
by HUM 582 / COM 588 / PHI 581
Leonard Barkan (Comparative Literature) and Daniel Garber (Philosophy)
Tags:  Spring 2014
Translation in Theory and Practice
by COM 585
Sandra Berman (Comparative Literature) and C.K. Williams (Creative Writing)
Tags:  Spring 2013
Contemporary Art and the Amateur
by HUM 598
Joe Scanlan (Visual Arts)
Tags:  Fall 2013
Benjamin’s “Artwork Essay” or, Cultural History as the Rigorous Study of Art & Media
by HUM 581
Brigid Doherty (Art & Archaeology and German) and Michael Jennings (German)
Tags:  Fall 2013
Job, Literature & Modernity
Esther H. Schor (English) and Leong Seow (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Tags:  Spring 2013
Matters of Attention
by HUM 580
D. Graham Burnett (History) and Sal Randolph (IHUM Fellow)
Tags:  Spring 2013
Media in Film
by GER 525
Thomas Y. Levin (German) and Joseph Vogl (Humboldt U)
Tags:  Spring 2013
Style and Rule
by HUM 595
Jeff Dolven (English) and Joshua Katz (Classics)
Tags:  Spring 2013
On the Persistence of of Cultural Forms
by HUM 597
Devin Fore (German) and Hal Foster (Art and Archeology)
Tags:  Fall 2012
Critique and Its Discontents
by HUM 599
D. Graham Burnett (History of Science) and Jeff Dolven (English)
Tags:  Fall 2011