The modern economy is shaped by uneven capitalist development and premised on exploiting colonialized/raced, gendered, sexualized and non-human Others. That is, racial, sexual and environmental violence are at the heart of social relations of production and reproduction, but they are also invisibilized or undervalued under capitalism. Thus, critical analyses of the systemic inequities engendered by colonial/racial capitalism, and imagining just economies is fundamental to abolition and climate justice.

This class examines the history of American Gridiron Football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.

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"Late style" is an expression regularly used in music history to distinguish the work of composers as they enter their last phase of composition?often, but not only, in old age. This course looks closely at the musical and biographical contexts in which late-age music was composed, and seeks both to question the assumptions surrounding late style, mortality, and cultural gerontology, and to prompt a more critical understanding of the late/last works of composers and musicians.

The genesis of The Book of Kings (Shahnameh) from its pre-islamic origins as a repository of historical narrative and mythology, to its translation and reproduction in the Islamic period, expanding several centuries, takes center stage in this course. The seminar covers a variety of topics dealing with the Shahnameh as a literary and historiographical text alike. Those include the role of the Shahnameh in (Persian) Sasanian Imperial ideology, its reception in the (Islamic) Abbasid context, as well as the rising post-Islamic Iranian dynasties.

Introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms. Topics include basic algorithmic paradigms (e.g. divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, the greedy approach and randomization), their application to core problems in graph theory and optimization, as well as analysis of time and space complexity.