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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of t...
Wonders of Ancient Egypt
Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, str...
Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity
In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of r...
Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain
This course evaluates the medieval history of Toledo from the era of the Visigoth Kingdom (6th-8th c...
The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction
The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known....
The Politics of Skepticism
This is a course about the history of Skepticism from the ancient Greeks to today, with special atte...
The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)
This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in Europea...
The Kennedy Half Century
When John F. Kennedy entered the presidential limousine at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 2...
The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...
The Holocaust - An Introduction (I): Nazi Germany: Ideology, The Jews and the World
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...
The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology
The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information positio...
The Emergence of the Modern Middle East - Part II
This course will discuss the developments in the Middle East from the early 20th century to the pres...
The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of...
The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archaeology and History of the Palatine Hill
Studying ancient - as well as medieval or modern - cities basically means telling local urban storie...
The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future
With its walls razed to ground by Babylon’s armies, Jerusalem joined a long line of ancient vanquish...
The Ancient Greeks
This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. A...
Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity
It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical pr...
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries
Ideas and imaginaries inspire human capacity for great endeavours, but ‘conventional wisdom’ frequen...
Russian History: from Lenin to Putin
In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russ...