First-Year Seminars/Colloquia

First-year Cultural Studies seminars and colloquia cover a wide range of subjects and disciplines. Among this year’s offerings are:

• Food Politics (Urban and Environmental Policy)
• Stupidity (Religious Studies)
• The Pursuit of Happiness (Psychology)
• Energy, Science, Society and the World (Chemistry)
• Life as Migrant: The Formation and Transformation of National and Transnational Communities (Spanish and French Literary Studies)
• The Taming of Infinity (Mathematics)
• What Are Values? Origins and History of Our Value System (German)
• Ethics and the Politics of the Drug War (Philosophy)
• Urban Fictions: The Modern City in Literature and Other Arts (English and Comparative Literary Studies)
• From the Ten Commandments to the "Death of God" (Politics/History)
• Visions of the Floating World: Painting and Prints of Edo Japan (Art History and the Visual Arts)
• Whose Music Is It Anyway? Issues of Appropriation in Hip Hop (Music)