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.
Courses
Spring 2021
- Humanitarianisms Part III: Rethinking the Human through Comparative Humanitarianisms
- The Arts of Politics: Cultural Agency, Memory, Resilience
- Exposed: Public Environmental Humanities
Winter 2021
- Abolition
- Humanitarianisms Part II: Comparative Humanitarianism
- First Nations Art, Resistance, and Governance: Haida and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Art Against Extraction
Fall 2020
- Art, Migration and the Borders of the Political
- Humanitarianisms Part I: Decentering Migration and Decolonizing Humanitarianism
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
