2021–2022
| Fall 2021 |
HMAN 2401E |
Retouch: The Imaginaries of Repair |
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman (American Studies and English) Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media) |
| Fall 2021 | HMAN 2401F | Speed: Fast and Slow in Literature and Philosophy |
Susan Bernstein (Comparative Literature and German Studies) Peter Szendy (Cogut Institute and Comparative Literature) |
| Fall 2021 | HMAN 2401G | Frameworks of Antiquity: Disciplines, Discourses, Politics |
Tamara Chin (Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies) Adi Ophir (Cogut Institute and Middle East Studies) |
| Spring 2022 |
HMAN 2401H |
Global Histories of Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry since 1945 |
Leon Hilton (Theatre Arts and Performance Studies) Jennifer Lambe (History) |
| Spring 2022 | HMAN 2401J | The Art of Refusal | Tina Campt (Cogut Institute and Modern Culture and Media) |
| Spring 2022 | HMAN 2401K | Technologies of Memory |
Stuart Burrows (English) Ravit Reichman (English) |
| Spring 2022 | HMAN 2401L | Postcolonial Theory | Leela Gandhi (Cogut Institute and English) |
| Spring 2022 | HMAN 2401M | Decolonial Matters: Thinking from the South | Yannis Hamilakis (Archaeology and the Ancient World, Classics) and Vazira Zamindar (History) |
| Spring 2022 | HMAN 2500 | Project Development Workshop |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and English) Shahzad Bashir (History and Religious Studies) |
2020–2021
| Fall 2020 |
HMAN 2400I |
Environmental Humanities |
Bathsheba Demuth (History and Environment and Society) Lukas B. Rieppel (History) |
| Fall 2020 | HMAN 2400Y | Suspicion and Its Others |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and English) Thomas Lewis (Religious Studies) |
| Fall 2020 | HMAN 2400Z | Instruments and Instrumentalities |
Emily Dolan (Music) in parallel with Jonathan Sterne (McGill University) |
| Fall 2020 |
HMAN 2401 |
Metaphor/Matter/Time: Literature and the Changing Earth |
Thangam Ravindranathan (French Studies) Ada Smailbegovic (English) |
| Fall 2020 |
HMAN 2401A |
Bakhtin and the Political Present: Literature, Anthropology, Dialogue |
Timothy Bewes (English) Paja Faudree (Anthropology) |
| Cancelled | HMAN 2400Q | War and the Politics of Cultural Memory |
Daniel Kim (English and American Studies) Ravit Reichman (English) |
| Spring 2021 |
HMAN 2401B |
Thinking Breath: An Inquiry Across Literature, Performance, and Philosophy |
Leela Gandhi (Cogut Institute and English) Peter Szendy (Cogut Institute and Comparative Literature) |
| Spring 2021 |
HMAN 2401C |
Inscribing the Event: Poetics and Politics of the Date |
Marc Redfield (Comparative Literature and English) Gerhard Richter (German Studies and Comparative Literature) |
| Spring 2021 | HMAN 2401D | The Fugitivity of Slowness, Stillness, and Stasis |
Tina Campt (Cogut Institute and Modern Culture and Media) Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo (American Studies and English) |
| Spring 2021 | HMAN 2500 | Project Development Workshop |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and English) Tamara Chin (Comparative Literature) |
2019–2020
| Fall 2019 | HMAN 2400P | The Idea of the University |
Gerhard Richter (German Studies and Comparative Literature) Peter Szendy (Cogut Institute and Comparative Literature) |
| Fall 2019 | HMAN 2400R | Tracing Translations: Artistic Migrations and Reinventions in the Early Modern World |
Shahzad Bashir (Middle East Studies and Religious Studies) Holly Shaffer (History of Art and Architecture) |
| Fall 2019 | HMAN 2400S | Race, Nation, Immigration |
Prerna Singh (Political Science and International and Public Affairs) Michael Steinberg (History and Music) |
| Spring 2020 | HMAN 2400T | Imagining Cities: Early Modern Urban Perspectives |
Laura Bass (Hispanic Studies) Evelyn Lincoln (History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies) |
| Spring 2020 | HMAN 2400U | Italian Thought: Inside and Out |
Laura Odello (French Studies) Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, and Pembroke Center) |
| Spring 2020 | HMAN 2400W | The Visual Frequency of Black Life |
Tina Campt (Cogut Institute and Modern Culture and Media) in parallel with Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University) |
| Spring 2020 | HMAN 2400X | Premodern Art-Science, or the Work of Knowing in Europe before 1800 |
Harold Cook (History) Tara Nummedal (History and Italian Studies) |
| Spring 2020 | HMAN 2500 | Project Development Workshop |
Timothy Bewes (Cogut Institute and English) Brian Meeks (Africana Studies) |
2018–2019
| Spring 2019 | HMAN 2400I | Environmental Humanities |
Mark Cladis (Religious Studies) Sharon Krause (Political Science) |
| Spring 2019 | HMAN 2400K | Theories of Affect: Poetics of Expression Through and Beyond Identity |
Daniel Kim (English and American Studies) Ada Smailbegovic (English) |
| Spring 2019 | HMAN 2400M | Philosophy and Architecture |
Paul Guyer (Cogut Institute and Philosophy) Dietrich Neumann (History of Art and Architecture, Urban Studies, and Italian Studies) |
| Spring 2019 | HMAN 2400N | Care of the World, Between Politics and Theology |
Bonnie Honig (Political Science, Modern Culture and Media) Adi Ophir (Cogut Institute and Middle East Studies) |
| Spring 2019 | HMAN 2500 | Project Development Workshop |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and English) Tamara Chin (Comparative Literature) |
| Fall 2018 | HMAN 2400G | It's About Time: Temporalities of Waiting in Theory, Literature, and Film |
Adi Ophir (Cogut Institute and Middle East Studies) Peter Szendy (Cogut Institute and Comparative Literature) |
| Fall 2018 | HMAN 2400H | Art History from the South: Circulations, Simulations, Transfigurations |
Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Visiting Professor) Vazira Zamindar (History) |
| Fall 2018 | HMAN 2400J | Archives: Histories, Practices, Theories, and Formations |
Ariella Azoulay (Comparative Literature and Modern Media and Culture) Laura Wexler (Yale University) |
| Fall 2018 | HMAN 2400L | Religion and Internationalism |
Nathaniel Berman (International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture) Thomas Lewis (Religious Studies) |
2017–2018
| Spring 2018 | HMAN 2400A | Politics and Literature |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and English) Bonnie Honig (Modern Culture and Media and Political Science) |
| Spring 2018 | HMAN 2400F | Scales of Historiography |
Tamara Chin (Comparative Literature) Rebecca Nedostup (History) |
| Fall 2017 | HMAN 2400B | Trans/Passing, in Theory |
Jacques Khalip (English) Matthew Guterl (Africana Studies and American Studies) |
| Fall 2017 | HMAN 2400D | Potential History of Photography: Collaboration | Ariella Azoulay (Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media) and guest lecturers |
| Fall 2017 | HMAN 2400E | What Was Europe? |
Kevin McLaughlin (English and Comparative Literature) Peter Szendy (Cogut Institute and Comparative Literature) |
2016–2017
| Spring 2017 | HMAN 2400C | Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation |
Ariella Azoulay (Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature) Leela Gandhi (Cogut Institute and and English) |
| Fall 2016 | HMAN 2970W | Ethics/Politics |
Amanda Anderson (Cogut Institute and and English) Leela Gandhi (Cogut Institute and and English) |