On this course, we will explore how key concepts in modern western philosophy both contributed to and were shaped by ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality. We will examine how older ideas about sexual difference were ‘over-coded’ and transformed by the emergence of the modern western concept of race...
This course offers an in-depth study of decolonial theories emerging from the Global South,specifically Latin America. We will examine the history and turns of postcolonial anddecolonial ideas and their implications for developing critical methodologies,epistemological justice projects, and research/...
Mason is hosting the philoSOPHIA 15th Annual Conference "Entangled Ecologies: The Climate of Justice". The conference will explore the complex linkages connecting climate change and environmental devastation to the entangled legacies of transatlantic slavery and settler colonialism, the histories...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2022 and spring 2023 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2022-23 annual theme, "Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy." Congratulations to our third c...
