Courses
310 courses since 2014
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15 courses
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Modernity and the Ecological Crisis: Why We Can’t Help but Destroy the World
Throughout the span of human history, no period has ever alienated humankind from the natural world as much as the modern era. In it, the advent of scientific discovery, the Industrial Revolution, and technological advancement have achieved a dual effect—one that simultaneousl…
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Reclaiming the Ancient: Poetry, Memory, and Living Traditions
This lab explores ancient poetic and philosophical traditions as living expressions of human thought, rather than distant or static artifacts. We will engage texts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South and Southeast Asia, approaching them through relational, context-based…
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Materialities of Empire
What can looking at materialities teach us about changing political empires? Global history is characterized by changing and competing empires. What material impact these empires have on political realities and daily lives is a central inquiry for both political historians an…
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History and/in Anthropology?
Why history and why anthropology? What could the historian be if not a scribe of the worlds that humans live in, and what is the anthropologist if not an archivist of social forms of life? This course asks these questions in order to figure out the ways in which the tradition…
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Global Esotericism: Spirits, Cults, and a History of Magic
What if magic never really disappeared? What if our modern world, with all its science, technology, and rationality, is still haunted by the occult, the mystical, and the unseen? In this experimental history seminar, we’ll travel across Europe, North America, the Arab world, a…
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Buddhist Psychology
This course intends to cover the psychological aspects of the Buddhist Doctrine. Our main focus will be to explore in depth and as much extensively as possible, both the origins and developments of the autochthonous Indian experience of mind-examination, in both its tenets and…
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What Is This Community?
This course invites students to explore the diversity of communities in Egypt through a case-based, exploratory approach grounded in ethnographic readings and visual materials. Rather than treating “community” as a fixed or self-evident concept, the course approaches it as som…
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مقدمة في التاريخ الاجتماعي للتراث الإسلامي
تقدم هذه الدورة فرصة للتعرف بشكل بانورامي على تاريخ تطور أهم الأفكار في التراث الإسلامي السني. وتقدم هذه الدورة قراءة فريدة بحيث تقرأ الأفكار في سياقها الاجتماعي التاريخي، وفي سياق تطوراتها اللاحقة وتأثيرها على الواقع المعاصر. تمثل هذه الدورة مقدمة لمن يرغب في التعرف على أهم ا…
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Playing with the Archive: Staging the 1919 Uprising
In collaboration with the Institute for De-Colonising Theory
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Heroism and Modernity
Heroism and modernity Course aims to explore anthropological, philosophical and theological changes experienced by modern man at the decisive moment of transition from mythical age to the modern age. when natural empirical science begins to replace traditional metaphysical exp…
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معمل الترجمة
لماذا نترجم؟ وهل الترجمة مجرد ممارسة لغوية، أم عملية فكرية مليئة بالانحيازات والاختيارات عند كل منعطف؟ كيف تؤثر تصوراتنا عن اللغتين العربية والإنجليزية على الترجمة وجدواها؟ ما الذي يحتاجه المترجم من مهارات؟ هل نحتاج إلى مترجمين في عصر الذكاء الاصطناعي؟ نحاول في مختبر الترجمة…
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Creative Research Writing: Between Fact, Fiction, and Personal Truths
My arrival at creative research writing is informed by two observations: 1. There is an assumed distinction between academic research and writing practices and personal, creative ones. 2. Academic research and writing practices are considerably impaired when divorced from pe…
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المكان في الأدب الحديث
يندُر طرح السؤال عن علاقة الأدب بالجغرافيا، إلا في إطار دراسة الوظيفة التأريخية والاجتماعية للأدب. لكن للجغرافيا علاقة بالأدب، ومدارس الأدب الحديث على وجه الخصوص تفوق تلك النظرة الاستعمالية. فما هي تلك الأدوار وكيف يمكن أن نأخذها في اعتبارنا عند ممارسة الكتابة الأدبية. سواء شع…
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