What is gender and where does it come from? Is gender something that people are born with? Or are they…
Many of our social problems appear to stem from feelings of animosity people have towards others: racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia,…
You’ve probably been offered almond milk, but have you heard of potato milk? It’s coming. The ways we make, eat,…
Jewish life and civilization in Spain have been compared to a drama in which moments of cultural flourishing are mixed…
This first-year seminar will reflect upon the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, exploring how the terrorist attacks…
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. The first scrolls…
In 1905 the sociologist Max Weber famously proclaimed that capitalism has a “spirit.” Beyond just determining how we make money…
This seminar examines the cultural construction of animals in Japanese myth, folklore, and religion. We will discuss various kinds of…
You may already have read that trees communicate with each other, or that forests are complex networks of resource exchange….
In this course, we will examine how French topography, in particular coastal topography, has had an impact on French cultural…