PAST COURSES OFFERED BY THE CENTER FOR DISCIPLINARY INNOVATION
SPRING 2023
Creations: The Popol Vuh and Paradise Lost
Timothy Harrison (English Language & Literature) and Edgar Garcia (English Language & Literature)
WINTER 2023
Opera Without Borders
Martha Feldman (Music) and Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
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Postcolonial and Decolonial History and Theory
Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Lisa Wedeen (Political Science)
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(Re)Orienting Performance Studies: East Asia as Method
Ariel Fox (East Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Melissa Van Wyk (East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
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Virtual Ethnography: Encounters in Mediation
Thomas Lamarre (Cinema & Media Studies) and Michael Fisch (Anthropology)
FALL 2022
Politics and Cinema Under Authority
Maria Belodubrovskaya (Cinema & Media Studies) and Monika Nalepa (Political Science)
SPRING 2022
Ekphrasis: Description and Imagination in Art and Religion
Françoise Meltzer (Comparative Literature) and JaÅ› Elsner (Divinity)
Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and China: History/Literature
Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Susan Burns (History)
SPRING 2021
The Sacred Gaze: Beholding as a Spiritual Exercise in the European
Artistic Traditions
JaÅ› Elsner (Divinity) and Richard Neer (Art History)
WINTER 2021
The Return of Migration: Mobility and the New Empiricism
James Osborne (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Catherine Kearns (Classics)
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FALL 2020
Collapse: The End of the Soviet Empire
Leah Feldman (Comparative Literature
) and Faith Hillis (History)
SPRING 2020
Journeys Real and Virtual. Travel in the Pre-modern Mediterranean
offered by Niall Atkinson (Art History) and Karin Krause (Divinity School)
Violence, Trauma, Repair
offered by Sonali Thakkar (English Language & Literature) and Natacha Nsabimana (Anthropology)
WINTER 2020
Cinema Without an Archive
offered by Allyson Nadia Field (Cinema & Media Studies) and Ghenwa Hayek (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
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Politics of Media: From the Culture Industry to Google Brain
offered by Patrick Jagoda (Cinema & Media Studies) and Kristen Schilt (Sociology)
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Practices of Classicism in the French Seventeenth Century
offered by Larry Norman (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Richard Neer (Art History and Cinema & Media Studies)
SPRING 2019
The Global Plantation
offered by Christopher Taylor (English Language & Literature) and Adom Getachew (Political Science)
WINTER 2019
Opera and Film: China / Europe
offered by Martha Feldman (Music) and Judith Zeitlin (East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
FALL 2018
Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung in Performance: Siegfried
offered by David Levin (Germanic Studies) and Steven Rings (Music)
SPRING 2018
Guillotine/Barricade: Figures of History Across Media
offered by Jennifer Wild (Cinema & Media Studies) and James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto)
Destruction of Images, Books, and Artifacts in Europe and South Asia
offered by Olga Solovieva (Comparative Literature) and Tyler Williams (South Asian Languages & Civilizations)
The Art of Healing: Medical Aesthetics in Russia & the U.S.
offered by William Nickell (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Michael David (Medical School)
WINTER 2018
Exploratory Translation
offered by Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature) and Jennifer Scappettone (English Language & Literature)
Phaedras Compared: Adaptation, Gender, Tragic Form
offered by Larry Norman (Romance Languages & Literatures) and David Wray (Classics)
FALL 2017
The Mediterranean Sea in Antiquity: Imperial Connections
offered by James Osborne (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Catherine Kearns (Classics)
From Baroque to Neo-Baroque
offered by Rachel Galvin (English Language & Literature) and Miguel Martinez (Romance Languages & Literatures)
SPRING 2017
Algorithms and Aesthetics
offered by Sean Keller (IIT College of Architecture)
The Discovery of Paganism
offered by Clifford Ando (Classics) and Claudia Brittenham (Art History)
Ruins
offered by Jas’ Elsner (Divinity and Art History) and Françoise Meltzer (Comparative Literature)
WINTER 2017
A Global Sonic History in 30 Objects
offered by Philip Bohlman (Music) and Lars-Christian Koch (University of Berlin)
Reason and Religion
offered by Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (Classics) and Robert Richards (History)
Women's Rights, Cultural Nationalism, Moral Panics: Africa and India
offered by Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development)
FALL 2016
The Debt Drive: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Neoliberalism
offered by Eric Santner (Germanic Studies) and Aaron Schuster (Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam)
SPRING 2016
Writing Images / Picturing Words
offered by Srikanth Reddy (English) and Jessica Stockholder (Visual Arts)
Color & Culture in Japan & Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Approach
offered by Chelsea Foxwell (Art History) and Henry Smith (Columbia University)
Enslavement and Performativity in Comparative Perspective
offered by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan)
WINTER 2016
Philology as a Way of Life: Humanism and the Classics
offered by Rocco Rubini (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Boris Maslov (Comparative Literature)
Data Visualization: Aesthetics, Intent, and Practice
offered by Jason Salavon (Visual Arts) and Gordon Kindlmann (Computer Science)
FALL 2015
Nomads, Networks, and Political Complexity in the Ancient Near East
offered by Richard Payne (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Emily Hammer (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
Reproduction/Reproduction: A Context for Dante
offered by Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA) & Justin Steinberg (Romance Languages & Literatures)
SPRING 2015
Colonial and Postcolonial Intimacies: African, Indian and European Encounters
offered by Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development)
Time Out of Mind: Arts and Sciences of Material Duration
offered by Timothy Campbell (English) and Matthew Hunter (McGill University)
WINTER 2015
Spectacle and Surveillance
offered by W.J.T. Mitchell (English) and Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University)
Melodrama Across Media
offered by James Chandler (English) and Martha Feldman (Music)
SPRING 2014
Network Analysis, Literary Criticism, and the Digital Humanities
offered by Hoyt Long (East Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Richard Jean So (English)
WINTER 2014
Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation: Questions and Methods
offered by Jason Merchant (Linguistics) and Alison LaCroix (Law)
Anxiety
offered by Malynne Sternstein (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Anne Flannery (Newberry Library, Digital Initiatives)
AUTUMN 2013
Technologies of Visualization: Florence Then and Now
offered by Lawrence Rothfield (Comparative Literature) and Niall Atkinson (Art History)
Network Aesthetics | Network Cultures
offered by Patrick Jagoda (English) and Eivind Røssaak (National Library of Norway)
Avarice, After All
offered by Eric Santner (Germanic Studies) and Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana)
SPRING 2013
Do Ideas Evolve?
offered by James Evans (Sociology) & Jacob Foster (postdoc)
The Literature of Empire, 1750-1900
offered by James Chandler (English) and Jennifer Pitts (Political Science)
Pindar: Ritual, Poetics, Monuments
offered by Richard Neer (Art History and Cinema & Media Studies) & Boris Maslov (Comparative Literature)
WINTER 2013
Love, Capital and Conjugality in Africa and India
offered by Rochona Majumdar (South Asian Languages & Civilizations) and Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development)
AUTUMN 2012
Gesture, Sign and Language
offered by Diane Brentari (Linguistics) and Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology)
Philosophy and the Poetics of Presence in Postwar France
offered by Alison James (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Mark Payne (Classics)
SPRING 2012
Bilingualism: cognition, language, literature, and culture
offered by Anastasia Giannakidou (Linguistics) and Na'ama Rokem (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
Civil War in Lucan and Flaubert: Literature, History, Theology
offered by Michele Lowrie (Classics) and Barbara Vinken (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)
Postcolonial Intersections: The Middle East and South Asia
offered by Leela Gandhi (English) and Lisa Wedeen (Political Science)
WINTER 2012
'Other-speech' and 'Visible words': Allegory, the allegorical, and allegoresis before modernity
offered by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Aden Kumler (Art History)
Suspended Between Worlds: Crisis, Displacement, and Disorientation Around 1948
offered by Deborah Nelson (English) and James Sparrow (History)
AUTUMN 2011
Vision and Communism
offered by Robert Bird (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Matthew Jesse Jackson (Art History)
SPRING 2011
Climate and History
offered by Dipesh Chakrabarty (South Asian Languages and Civilizations & History) and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (History)
Revolutionary Culture in Eighteenth-Century France and America
offered by Eric Slauter (English) and Paul Cheney (History)
Same-Sex Love and Desire in Indic Literatures: Problems and Approaches
offered by Leela Gandhi (English) and Ruth Vanita (University of Montana)
WINTER 2011
Literature, History, and Science: 1750-1900
offered by Alison Winter (History) and James Chandler (English Language and Literature)
Seeing Madness: Mental Illness and Visual Culture
offered by Françoise Meltzer (Romance Languages & Literatures) and W.J.T. Mitchell (English and Art History)
AUTUMN 2010
Improvisation as a Way of Life
offered by Arnold Davidson (Philosophy & Comparative Literature) and George Lewis (Columbia University)
SPRING 2010
Cultural Consequences of Colonization
offered by Salikoko Mufwene (Linguistics) and Dain Borges (History)
Seeing / Writing the Everyday in 20th-Century France
offered by Alison James (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Jennifer Wild (Cinema & Media Studies)
Perception and Understanding of Multimedia
offered by Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
WINTER 2010
Growth and institutions in the Economy of the ancient World
offered by Alain Bresson (Classics) and François Velde (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Arabesque Narrative: A Hybrid Form of the Imaginary
offered by David Wellbery (Germanic Studies) and Ralph Ubl (Visual Arts & Social Thought)
Perception and Understanding of Multimedia
offered by Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
AUTUMN 2009
Race, Media, and Visual Culture
offered by W.J.T. Mitchell (English & Art History) and Darby English (Art History)
Perception and Understanding of Multimedia
offered by Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
SPRING 2009
The Noise of the Imperial City
offered by Lars-Christian Koch (Cologne University, Ethnomusicology) and Philip Bohlman (Music)
Poems and Songs
offered by Travis Jackson (Music) and Robert von Hallberg (Comparative Literature)
Translating Theory
offered by Robert Bird (Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Loren Kruger (Comparative Literature)
WINTER 2009
Composing Humans, 1760-1840
offered by James Chandler (English) and Martha Feldman (Music)
Digitally Assisted Text Analysis
offered by Helma Dik (Classics) and Martin Mueller (Northwestern University, English & Classics)
WINTER 2008
Love's Books, Love's Looks: Textual and Visual Perspectives on the Roman de la Rose
offered by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages & Literatures) and Aden Kumler (Art History)