There are still a handful of seats left in the Spring 2025 Slow Reads! The Slows with seats still available are described below. Don’t miss out! Join the Slow Read Movement!!
IISP 11501 (CRN 40001)
Still a Mystery: Conversations Across Disciplines About What We Don’t Know
Michael Trotti
1 Credit
Tuesdays 2:35-3:50
This course will ask students to think about all the amazing things we don’t know . . . by having them focus on where the frontiers of what knowing is. Professors from across campus will interact with us as we investigate what is known and not known about the body, about the universe, about the mind, about the past,and many other areas.
HIST 20001
Doppelganger, Naomi Klein
Johnathan Ablard
1 Credit
Wednesdays 1:00-2:10
Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World" is a profound meditation on the ways the social media have warped politics, social interactions, and fostered polarization. After analyzing how we arrived at a place of heightened conflict and misunderstanding, Klein provides a trenchant analysis of ways to move forward.
RLST 11500
Zhuangzi
Eric Steinschneider
1 Credit
Day and day part: Mondays, 10–10:50AM
Immerse yourself in this profound, and profoundly entertaining, Daoist treasure! TheZhuangzi, a delightful collection of parables, anecdotes, and highly fanciful conversations, is a classic of Chinese religious literature and one of the most influential texts of all time. If you are interested in dreams, butterflies, good jokes, or the secret to a more carefree existence, then this course is for you!
WRTG 20700
Narrative in the Anthropocene – Erin James
Eleanor Henderson
2 Credits
Mondays, 6:50-8:30
What can narrative teach us about our current geological epoch? And what can our current geological epoch teach us about narrative? Can understanding the stories we tell about our planet help us tell different ones-and even help us save it? Explore these questions and more in a slow read of Erin James' revolutionary work of econarratology, Narrative and theAnthropocene (Ohio State University Press, 2022). Supplementary readings may include other works related to narrative theory and environmental justice, as well as climate fiction and speculative fiction. Any student interested in science, writing, literature, and/or our planet is welcome.