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大學之理念 (The Idea of a University)

本課程旨在探討現代大學之起源、發展及其當前問題,分析當前大學社群之內部問題,以及大學社群與非學術社群...

University/Institute: National Taiwan University

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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...

University/Institute: The University of Tokyo

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Wonders of Ancient Egypt

Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, str...

University/Institute: University of Pennsylvania

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Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity

In this course we will seek to “understand Einstein,” especially focusing on the special theory of r...

University/Institute: Stanford University

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Toledo: Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Spain

This course evaluates the medieval history of Toledo from the era of the Visigoth Kingdom (6th-8th c...

University/Institute: University of Colorado System

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The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction

The Talmud is one of the richest and most complicated works of literature the world has ever known....

University/Institute: Northwestern University

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The Politics of Skepticism

This is a course about the history of Skepticism from the ancient Greeks to today, with special atte...

University/Institute: Erasmus University Rotterdam

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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...

University/Institute: Wesleyan University

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The Kennedy Half Century

When John F. Kennedy entered the presidential limousine at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 2...

University/Institute: University of Virginia

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The Holocaust - An Introduction (II): The Final Solution

The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its inn...

University/Institute: Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem

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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...

University/Institute: Tel Aviv University & Yad Vashem

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The Epistemic Quest for Truth: Introduction to epistemology

The introduction of the internet and of social media has drastically changed our information positio...

University/Institute: Erasmus University Rotterdam

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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...

University/Institute: Tel Aviv University

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The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World

Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of...

University/Institute: Universiteit Leiden

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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...

University/Institute: Sapienza University of Rome

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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...

University/Institute: Emory University

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The Ancient Greeks

This is a survey of ancient Greek history from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. A...

University/Institute: Wesleyan University

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Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity

It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical pr...

University/Institute: University of Copenhagen

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Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries

Ideas and imaginaries inspire human capacity for great endeavours, but ‘conventional wisdom’ frequen...

University/Institute: University of Copenhagen

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Russian History: from Lenin to Putin

In this course, Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, explains the events of modern Russ...

University/Institute: University of California, Santa Cruz

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