Winter 2025, CairoShort Course
Ecology, Education, and the Human
Lessons from a Life in a Burning Wolrd
Course details
- Cycle
- Winter 2025, Cairo
- Length
- 6 weeks
- Format
- Online
- Taught in
- English
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About the course
There has been a long and varied conversation regarding climate change; the subject of climate change has been approached through a material, political, logistical, etc. lens.
In this course we will discuss climate change through an interdisciplinary manner: we will look into the psychological, political, ecology movements and conversations concerning Nature and the Human, the Gaia Hypothesis, as well as Anthropocene or the proper nomenclature, and the Figure of Gaia and her implications.
The idea is to attempt to engage with the complex issue of climate change and ecology as a whole, so we can better understand ourselves, the Human, and our part within this complex system – within Life.
Who teaches it
Alexandros is student of life and a pupil of Liberal Arts, driven by the ideals of the examined life. I do not merely embody my university’s values and the principles of academia but make it my vocation to continuously learn from, live by, and share them with others.
I completed my Liberal Arts BA (with hons) at the University of Winchester, and I am currently undertaking a (research) Master’s in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
Throughout my educational journey, I have drawn from these ideals and principles to help establish – in both universities – the Agora society, a place for students with curious minds across disciplines to come together and ask questions, to share their ideas and thoughts with one another – to live the examined life
From the fellow Rest of the Course:
Depending on the flow and direction of our discussions, students will be given the chance to elect the path that is to be followed.
Course flow
Sessions without a date
- Don't Even think About It.Marshall, G., 2014. New York: Bloomsbury.
- This Changes Everything.Klein, N., 2014. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement.Naess, A., 1973. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of, Volume 16, pp. 95-100.
- Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.Lovelock, J., 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries.Armiero, M. & Massimo, D. A., 2017. South Atlantic Quarterly, 116(2), pp. 345-362
- Living in the End Times.Žižek, S., 2010. Polygraph 22, pp. 243-264.
- Facing Gaia.Latour, B., 2017. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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