Courses
310 courses since 2014
What we cover at CILAS matters less than what a student discovers.
10 courses
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Of Planetary Boundaries and Limitless Humans
Explore planetary limits, food systems, barriers to change, and possible futures for Egypt and the wider world.
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Psychoanalysis Is an Antiphilosophy
Read Freud and Lacan to explore how psychoanalysis challenges philosophical mastery and the desire to know everything.
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Seeing the Unseen
Investigate how visual attention shapes perception, art, media, technology, and everyday ethical decisions.
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Minds, Machines and Meaning
Explore intelligence, knowledge, creativity, work, and human meaning through philosophical debates about AI.
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Medical Anthropology and Doing Social Research
Study health, culture, and inequality while learning tools for person-centered social research.
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Economies of Refusal
Explore alternatives to capitalism through economic anthropology, Global South Marxism, Black feminism, and radical fiction.
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Egypt vs. Masr
Use listening and small-scale sound ethnography to investigate class, identity, and urban life in Cairo.
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Art District or Art Washing?
Examine artwashing and displacement, and imagine cultural development rooted in community agency and belonging.
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