HUM Courses
HUM 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 2019
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
Spring 2017
- Observation, Objectivity, and Object Biographies: Reading Lorraine Daston
- Writing the Iranian Revolution: Memory, Testimony, Time
- Textual & Digital Studies Graduate Certificate - Capstone
- Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present
Winter 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
- Feminism and Visual Theories
- Southern Urbanisms: Edgar Pieterse and Jean-Marie Teno
- Troubling Translations: Language & Literature, Politics, and Market
Winter 2016
- Prisons, Politics, and Activism
- From Unmaking to Reimagining Universities in the Neoliberal/Digital Conjuncture: A microseminar with Chris Newfield
- Publics, Feelings: Reading Lauren Berlant
- Trans-Indigenous: Area Studies, Native Studies, and the Challenge of Oceania
- Ethnographic Aesthetics: Word, Image, Sound
- Reimaging Urban Scholarship: Differencing the Data
Fall 2015
- Scholarship as Public Practice
- Greek Etymology as Cultural History in the Work of Gregory Nagy
- The Politics of Socially Engaged Art
- Making the Case for Environmental History: Stories about Nature, Culture, and History
- Science, Technology & Society Studies in Action
Spring 2015
- Watching Difference: A Microseminar with Herman Gray
- Toleration and Justification: The Philosophy of Rainer Forst
Winter 2015
- Acting Up: Amplifying Voices Through Interactive Theater as Pedagogy
- Designing Culture in a Digital Age: A Microseminar with Anne Balsamo
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
- African American Political Thought: Freedom, Gender, and Political Action
- Project Management for Digital Scholarship
Winter 2014
- Society for Cinema & Media Studies Seattle: A Micro-seminar
- Islam and Forgiveness: Reflections on Justice and Conflict Resolution in Muslim Contexts
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
