Courses
310 courses since 2014
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310 courses
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Introduction to the Anthropology of the Magical, Mystical, and Unseen
Egypt is a place where traditional spiritual healing methods that include ‘superstitious’ beliefs and rituals are still popular, in recent years new modalities like energy healing have also become popular and available. However, it’s very common for spiritual and other healing…
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On violence
At a time when there are a lot of questions on what constitutes the phenomenon of violence, whether inflicted by the experiences of the everyday, or by the structures and institutions of the state or whether its even more “virtual”, this course offers a historical and contempo…
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Visual in/Justice
In today's highly mediatized world, images of the city in popular media neither represent the majority of citizens’ lived experiences nor their perceptions of the future. The misrepresentation of urban conditions in media creates processes of visibility and invisibility of the…
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Can We Talk about Love?
In what is becoming an annual tradition since it was first taught in 2018, ‘Can we talk about love?’ is a critical attempt to try to have a meaningful conversation about ‘love’. The course tries to look at a wide range of texts encompassing philosophy, psychology, literature,…
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Villains, Misfits and Tricksters of the Middle East
In this course we adopt the perspective of people who are dominantly constructed as villains and bad guys, or in theological terms as subjects who are dominantly considered as sinners, and therefore not considered good representatives of the 'victimhood discourse' and its poli…
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Romanticism in Philosophy and Music: Beethoven, AbdelWahab and Pink Floyd
The course aims at exploring the relation between philosophy and music through Romanticism - the movement that appeared roughly by the beginning of the 19th century in Europe and exerted considerable influence on all aspects of art, literature, and thought until the beginning…
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Race and Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays weave a spectacular, though at times uncomfortable tapestry of diverse skin colours, tongues and ethno-religious backgrounds. In performance, this has lent itself to interpretations that uphold as well as subvert white supremacy. It is both the subversions…
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The light we must destroy?
What is philosophy today and what do we need it for? This course provides an introduction to the turn against “philosophy” that has shaped the philosophical debate since the 20th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Together, we shall see why this turn is considered fundam…
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Time for U/Dystopia? Reflecting on Power, Politics and Global Crisis
Questions of Utopia and Dystopia return forcefully in the context of the current world crisis. Will the Covid 19 pandemic expose, at last, the failures of the hegemonic global system, and lead to new modes of organization that transcend individualism and defy capitalism and co…
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On the decline of the Ivory Tower & the emergence of Pigeon Towers
The Ivory Tower, or its literal counterpart the modern/colonial university, is terminally ill. Perhaps now with COVID-19 – an equally pervasive illness – it’s time to do away with it and call upon a new figure to guide our efforts to re-image higher education. The Pigeon Tower…
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how do we talk about death?
Death is seen as the great equalizer, no one can escape it and like birth, it is essentially individual. In ‘how do we talk about death?’ we will try to look at death’s inherently subjective experience and at the same time inevitable universality. Attempting to overcome modern…
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Migration: Belonging, Dwelling and Laboring
Migrations do not just happen - they are produced. Capitalist modernity requires massive displacement that seamlessly supports the free flow of labor in the context of globalization. Yet mobile subjects are categorized, sorted and governed in and through the international lega…
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يوميات دراجة سكندرية
يدور هذا المساق حول الدراجة كوسيلة للحركة بمعناها المكاني والإجتماعي. نبحث معاً في السياق التاريخي والجغرافي لتطور التنقل وكيف أثرت أشكال الحركة المختلفة على مدننا وإيقاع حياتنا في المدينة وكيف ظلت الدراجة في وسط هذه التغيرات تعيد تعريف نفسها كرمز لأفكار متضادة أحياناً مثل ظهو…
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Youth Madness
يمثل مساق "جنون الشباب" مقدمة في الدراسات السينمائية ومحاولة لمشاهدة أفلام ونشر نصوص تأخذ ثقافتنا السينمائية إلى مساحات جديدة. تعكس اختيارات الأفلام التي يحتويها المنهج اهتمام بتمثيل الشباب في الأفلام المصرية عبر حقب زمنية مختلفة. يتناول المنهج من خلال التحليل النقدي بعض أهم ا…
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مختبر الترجمة: أنت وأنا ونظرية الترجمة
أن تترجم نظريات الترجمة كي تتعلم ممارسة الترجمة ونظرياتها، فهذا أمر يشبه الوقوف بين مرآتين: تبدي عدد من الصور اللانهائية لك. فماذا يمكن أن يحدث لو أصبحت هذه التجربة جماعية؟ تتحول عملية تعلم ممارسة الترجمة في الدورة السادسة من مختبر الترجمة في معهد القاهرة للعلوم واﻵداب الحرة…
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مختبر البحث الأول - مستقبلات ما بعد رأسمالية: الحياة والسياسة
أصبح عالمنا إلى حد بعيد معرف بالتكنولوجيا والتغيرات العميقة في أنماط المعرفة والسلوك الإنساني. لم تنته الرأسمالية بعد، إلا أنها تشهد تحولات عميقة مع تحول مراكز القوة الاقتصادية في العالم نحو الشرق وتصاعد التحديات أمام الديمقراطيات الليبرالية وإعادة تعريف التكنولوجيا للربح وعلا…
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Pedagogical Lab: An Act of Re-imagination and Reclamation of what matters in education
This lab is a journey into tracing and searching for emerging as well as long-existing pathways and pedagogical practices; it is concerned with the theory and practice of education. The lab employs theory and practice simultaneously, where theories on educational and communal…
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مختبر الوسائط - كيف تريد أن تُرى؟: ملاحظات على صورتنا الذاتية المتشظية
تتورط الصورة الفوتوغرافية والفيديو في صياغة هويتنا وصورتنا الذاتية أمام ما نطلق عليه أعراف المجتمع وسياسات الرقابة كل ما نراه يوميا يتدفق علينا كالسيل ليشكل مفهومنا عن أنفسنا والآخرين، سواء كنا جزءاً منه أو حاولنا / ادعينا الابتعاد عنه. تخلق تلك اللعبة الافتراضية، من مشاهدتي…
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Encountering the State: Anthropological Perspectives
The question of what is the state and how it operates has always been central to social sciences as much as the state itself has been central to living in modern societies. However, political anthropology had traditionally steered away from these discussions, as it studied soc…
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