Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33767 JACOB EMERY MW 1:15-2:30 pm BH 231 This course provides an overview of Vladimir Nabokov’s work in both Russian and English. The focus is on his prose fictions, but we will also consider Nabokov as a poet, playwright, critic, translator, and puzzle constructor. In exploring Nabokov’s works, we will also… Read more »
Spring 2024
HON-H 304 Luxury: From Mortal Sin to Market Sector
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #32852 REBECCA L. SPANG MW 4:45-6:00 pm HU 108 Luxury sells. The luxury sector’s value has more than trebled since 1994. There is a paradox here: businesses expect to grow, but luxury has historically been defined as rare, exclusive, or exceptional. Can luxury continue to expand and still be luxury? What… Read more »
HON-H 304 Politics of the U.N.
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #7925 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 7:00-8:15 pm WH 007 Interested students should contact the professor for permission to enroll as soon as possible in the fall semester (spechler@indiana.edu). Are you thinking about becoming a diplomat or an expert on international law? Are you hoping to study or work abroad? Do you have… Read more »
HON-H 304 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #6066 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 1:15-2:30 PM WH 004 After decades of Cold War, for a while it seemed possible that the bitter enmity between Russia and the West might give way to an amicable partnership that could address many pressing world problems. Instead, hostility and suspicion between the two sides are… Read more »
HON-H 303 Minds, Brains, and the Contemporary Novel
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33743 JENNIFER FLEISSNER TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm LH 004 How does the contemporary novel relate to contemporary psychology? A 2009 essay called “The Rise of the Neuro-Novel” proposes that advances in brain science have had a significant effect on the way today’s fiction portrays human interiority, behavior, and decision-making. This class puts… Read more »
HON-H 303 Dostoevsky and His Demons
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33627 CRAIG CRAVENS TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm BH 229 “So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world.” — Nicholas Berdiaev This course is an examination of homicide, suicide, patricide, and redemption through a study of… Read more »
HON-H 303 The Bold and the Restless: Polish Cinema from the 1950s to the Present
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33626 LUKASZ SICINSKI M 4:45-7:15 pm BH 229 ***Knowledge of Polish language and culture not required** Why do we commit transgressive acts? Are the lines between good and evil always clear? How do we deal with moral conflict and moral ambiguity? Are we responsible for actions that are beyond our control?… Read more »
HON-H 303 We Are Here: Minorities in the Post-Community Reality
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33625 JOANNA NIZYNSKA Th 4:45-7:15 pm GA 0009 All works in English. No prerequisites. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Europe—for over four decades divided by the “iron curtain” between the Eastern Bloc controlled by the Soviet Union and the so-called “West”—unified. Together with this unification came the violent breakdown… Read more »
HON-H 303 How to Write a Photograph
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13732 BILL JOHNSTON MW 3:00-4:15 pm BH 243 Photographs are everywhere: in books, on the Internet, on billboards and in brochures, in magazines and newspapers, on our laptops and in our phones. Often we don’t give them a second glance—it seems that what meaning they have can be comprehended instantly, in… Read more »
HON-H 303 Epic: Heroes, Gods and Rebels
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13729 SARAH VAN DER LAAN TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm BH 209 Why did the architects of the World Trade Center memorial choose a quotation from Virgil’s Aeneid, a two-thousand-year-old Latin poem, for its walls? Epic has lain at the heart of the Western literary tradition for twenty-seven hundred years. The most prestigious and… Read more »