Courses
310 courses since 2014
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86 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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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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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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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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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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Beauty Will Save the World
How can beauty save the world? This six week interactive discussion class may unleash the possibility of such transformation. Beauty can change perception, inspiring respect, and surprising responses to difficult situations. Sometimes beauty is dangerous. As we enter into 'bea…
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The Anthropology of Wounds: A medical humanities and urban ethnography approach
This course will build towards an anthropological understanding of wounds through an interrogation of the relationship between social theory, medical humanities, and urban studies. We will trace the relationship between the wounds inhered within our bodies and the wounds inher…
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Paradoxes of the Heart: Tragedy Between Love & Desire
Tragedy, as per Aristotle’s Poetics, is the name to which we give a structure that provides a representation of desire; its dialectics and its deadlocks, and that which produces an effect of catharsis in the audience. The link between tragedy and psychoanalysis can be traced t…
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Performing Stories with Neo-Dastangoi: Politics, Society, & Art in the Urban Fabric
Performing Stories with Neo-Dastangoi: Politics, Society, & Art in the Urban Fabric offers an immersive exploration into the intersections of politics, society, and artistic expression through the lens of Neo-Dastangoi, a modern revival of the ancient Urdu storytelling traditi…
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Oppressed voices: An Introduction to Subaltern Studies and Hidden Histories
Course Overview: Step into a world of history that’s often overshadowed but never silenced. Oppressed or Voices from Below course dives into the lives, struggles, and resistances of those left out of the dominant narratives: the subaltern. This course is your gateway to under…
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Gender Studies in Ancient Egypt
This course will focus on the ancient Egyptian concept of gender and how it influenced their society. Gender was important in ancient Egyptian culture, and it was represented in art, religion, and social roles. Men, women, and children held significance in day-to-day life but…
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