Courses
Courses
The Simpson Center offers courses at the graduate level that reflect its commitments to crossdisciplinary research, digital humanities, and public scholarship.
These courses are typically one-credit, credit/no credit, allowing students to fit them into regular departmental coursework. They are frequently structured around the work of a visiting speaker, letting students grow familiar with a speaker's work and deepening the possibility of real exchange while they are here.
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Courses
Fall 2020: We are carefully monitoring the University of Washington guidelines regarding the COVID-19 situation as we prepare for Fall 2020. At present, we are planning to meet in person, but we will adjust as necessary to ensure the health and well-being of our community. Should we need to cancel or alter the course meetings, we will provide adequate notice to potential participants.
Spring 2020
ALL SPRING MICROSEMINARS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
Winter 2020
- MLA Seattle 2020
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Writing the Planetary: A Microseminar on the Work of Anna Tsing
Fall 2019
- Neoliberalism and the (Dis)integration of the Political
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Community-Based Research Methods
Spring 2019
- On Feminism and Capitalism: A Microseminar on the Work of Nancy Fraser
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Translation and Its Publics
Winter 2019
- The Politics of Fifth Columns
- Humanities Career Exploration
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Teaching Racial Capitalism across Classroom and Community Spaces
- World Art Studies and Global Art Histories
Fall 2018
- The Shifting Landscape of Public Communication
- Ethics, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in the History of the Human Sciences
- New Media, Design, Difference, and Affect: A Microseminar with Tara McPherson
Spring 2018
- Improvisational Crossings: Social Dance as Interdisciplinary Intervention
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Public Spheres, Public Media
Winter 2018
- Organizing Film Festivals as Public Scholarship
- The Black Embodiments Studio
- Critical University Studies: The Authoritarian Signatures of Public Education
Fall 2017
