2019-2020

Climate for Theory

Faculty: Tavia Nyong’o (American Studies; Theater Studies), Paul North (German), Lisa Lowe (American Studies),  and Rod Ferguson (Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies)

Desert Futures: Sahara/Sonora

Faculty: Jill Jarvis (French), Eda Pepi (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), and Jonathan Wyrtzen (Sociology, History, and International Affairs)

Discerning Dispossession: Photography and Restitution

Faculty: Laura Wexler (American Studies), Cecile Fromont (History of Art), and James Green (Yale University Art Gallery)

Experimental Bioethics: Emerging Intersections Between Medicine, Philosophy, and Social Science

Faculty: Joshua Knobe (Philosophy and Cognitive Science), Mark Mercurio (Pediatrics), Molly Crockett (Psychology), and Stephen Latham (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics)

M/F. Mediating Fear, Fearing Media

Faculty: Marijeta Bozovic (Slavic Languages and Literatures; affiliated with Film and Media Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Francesco Casetti (Humanities; Film and Media Studies), Marta Figlerowicz (Comparative Literature; English), Carolyn Jacobs (Film and Media Studies; American Studies), and Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature; affiliate of the Programs in Renaissance Studies and the History of Science and Medicine)