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Enlightenment to the Death of God: A Philosophical Journey
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the philosophical developments from the Age of Enlightenment to the existential crisis marked by Friedrich Nietzsche's proclamation of the "Death of God." Students will critically examine the evolution of ideas, societal shifts,…
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Text and Desire: A Literary Journey through the Senses
What happens to us when we read? What senses do we activate? What is the relationship between text and pleasure, language and desire? This course is a sensory journey through different kinds of literature, exploring how pleasure is mapped into the language and style of these…
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Story as participative enquiry
Why does story as a phenomenon exist? How do we engage with the power of story in our lives? What is the link between story structure and poetic form? How can an appreciation of how story works help us better understand ourselves and how we think about ourselves? How can it in…
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Ecology between East and West: Philosophical and Theological Dialogues on Environmental and Animal Ethics
This course, Ecology between East and West: Philosophical and Theological Dialogues on Environmental and Animal Ethics, will engage both the Western and Islamicate traditions. It will deal with Environmental Ethics in general, and Animal Ethics in particular. In contemporary…
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“Us” and “Them”? : Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis in Conversation
Through the last ten years the world we live in can be characterized at best as unstable. Regimes and orders of thought, government, technology, lifestyles, art and space have been in a continuous motion of rapid changes and dislocations. Trends on social media platforms can b…
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حتى لا تكون بومر: عايزين من الفن إيه؟
العلاقة بين الفن والمجتمع علاقة شائكة، ربما نرى عملا فنيا متواضعا يخلق أو يعزز أنماط ثقافية بعينها ، وربما نجد عملا فنيا اخر يمكن وصفه بالجيد يحبطه المجتمع ولا يتجاوب معه. كمستهلكين للفن والمواد الثقافية المختلفة تدور في بالنا عشرات الأسئلة حول الفن الجيد والردئ، حول دور المج…
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Sailing the Grey: Perspectives on piracy and pirates
Pirates have always existed in a gray area, sailing both within and outside of established systems, continuously demonized and idolized, hunted and protected. They seemed to be everywhere and nowhere in particular, always on the fringe of society. As we delve into stories, pr…
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حول الأمومة: بين الهويات الجندرية وأدوات المقاومة
بينما تمثل اﻷمومة شبحًا مطاردًا في حياة النساء، فإنها بالتأكيد تشكل صورتهن الذاتية وتوجه أداءهن الجندري. لقد بيعت فكرة اﻷمومة إلى العالم باعتبارها مهمة مقدسة لا يمكن مساءلتها. لكن اﻷمومة في الواقع ليست تجربة سهلة وتأثيرها على شعورنا بذواتنا معقد. وبالتالي، من الضروري أن نتقفى…
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Film Theory (Contemporary)
Film theory is the study of general patterns used to create and articulate film language. It differs from film history and film analysis. Film history is concerned with the study of major milestones in the progress of the filmmaking industry; and film analysis is the study of…
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Historical Perspectives on Medicine in the Modern Middle East course
What can we learn about the Middle East through the study of medicine? In recent years, scholars of the region have increasing plumbed the histories of hospitals, doctors, and patients to provide novel perspectives on topics such as cultural exchange, religion, state power, an…
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Thinking Migration: Political Realism in the Age of International Migration Law
This course explores the philosophical underpinnings of migration, specifically the political and legal factors that shape the movements of people, their premises, and the responses thereof. It will focus on “political realism” and its conceptual basis, as one of the major inf…
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Narrating Nubia: Literature, Memory, and (Ecological) Space
Nubian culture is entangled with memories of loss and longing. The Nubian indigenous peoples lived by the Nile river for hundreds of years before the systematic flooding of their homeland over the course of the 19th Century due to the establishment of the Aswan Dam and the Hig…
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حياة واحدة لا تكفي: حلقة بحثية عن النوم والأحلام
هذا مساق عن حقيقة نوم الإنسان، وكيف يحدث ذلك؟ وكيف نحلم؟ متتبعا الأحلام وتأثيرها في التاريخ، والجهود العلمية لفهم الأحلام وتفسيرها، وهل يمكننا أن نتحكم في أفكار العقل الباطن وإعادة توجيهها أو زرع أفكار جديدة، معتمدا على عدة مراجع متنوعة من الدراسات والكتب وأفلام السينما والإبد…
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The Performing Body: Theories on Dance and Performance
This course will examine the body as a generator of political possibilities and alternative narratives, highlighting the body as a continuous performing entity. In this class students will learn to define performativity and performance through the lens of: ritual, everyday lif…
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Women’s Writing and the Literary Canon
Background How many women authors have you read in school? How many women are present on the recommended shelf in your local bookstore? Literary Canon refers to the body of works traditionally perceived as masterpieces of literature that are also taught in universities and hi…
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Thinking Privilege in Global Perspective
What is privilege? And how does privilege look like? Is privilege a home address? A body? Or a passport? And how might we make sense of privilege-in context in an increasingly unequal transnational world? While many trace social inequality to poverty, exclusion, and multiple…
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On the culture of irony
Irony is everywhere. You’ll find it in your guilty pleasure sitcom, in a political discussion you overhear in a café, or in the commercial of your favorite cereal brand (Temmy’s!). The internet is flooded with memes, which often contain multiple ironic layers. Hence, if one ag…
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Noticing Care
Giving and receiving care is an essential part of how we nurture and sustain each other’s well-being. We likely experience acts of care in our everyday lives; in the hot meals that our loved ones make us, in the sense of safety we feel when we are held by our friends, in the b…
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