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 

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

• Free Speech and Hate Speech
• The Work of Ramzi Fawaz and Comics Scholarship
• Missing Pictures: History and Poetic Imagination in the Cinema of Rithy Panh