An intercultural and interdisciplinary study of Dionysos in Greek and Roman antiquity, and of his modern reception beginning with Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, with emphasis on the pivotal role of this most Dionysiac of extant tragedies and its influence on the perception of Dionysos in literature, art and scholarship. Topics include divine and human identities; the wine and its beneficiaries; ritual ecstasy; the theater and the mask; gender roles and sexuality; suffering and sacrament; divine self-manifestation and epiphanic presence; polarities and otherness.
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Considers the political, economic, social and cultural development of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Examines post-war reconstruction; decolonization and the Cold War; the development of social democracy, new social movements, and the welfare state; the birth and expansion of the European Union; the emergence and importance of "immigrant politics" and new extreme-right movements; the events of 1989 and their significance.
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This interdisciplinary seminar explores European colonialism in Africa in historical and literary perspective. The course asks how colonial/postcolonial encounters have shaped European and African societies and selves from the 19th century to the present. Topics include: racial science and imperialist ideology; colonial violence and resistance; gender and sexuality; economic and cultural consumption; decolonization; and travel and migration between Africa and Europe. Students participate in discussion, write short papers, and complete a research project and presentation.
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Surveys an early phase of European expansion and colonial activity in areas including the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, the eastern Mediterranean, eastern Europe, the Baltic lands, Wales, and Ireland. A major goal of the course is to explore how a European identity emerged in the process of contact and conflict in the new borderlands. Readings will include primary and secondary sources.
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Explores how conceptions of desire and sexuality, gendered and raced bodies, have shaped major events and processes in modern Europe since 1750: the Enlightenment and empires; modern industry and the metropolis; political and sexual revolutions; consumption and commodities; war and ethnic conflict; fascism and the Cold War; debates surrounding multiculturalism and religion; postsocialism and globalization. Featuring: political and philosophical treatises; legislation and literature; film and visual sources.
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This seminar will concentrate on processes and discourses of religious conversion and disenchantment within the Evangelical tradition from the early eighteenth to the later twentieth centuries. Questions addressed will include what was the appeal of Evangelical religion and spirituality to different social groups, how were religious conversions understood and expressed, and what factors promoted subsequent disenchantment? We will examine conversion narratives, various expressions of disenchantment (in art and literature), and some examples of reconversion. By exploring these categories, the course hopes to shed light on wider themes such as the emergence of a concept of self in the early modern period, and possible causes of secularization in later periods.
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Analysis of everyday life in the USSR up to the death of Stalin through the use of first-person documentation: diaries, personal correspondence, autobiographies, and oral history. Topics include family, friendship, consumption, corruption, entertainment, housing, material goods, the emotions, the self, among others.
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This seminar explores human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Topics will include basic evolutionary and life history theory as well as various adaptive problems humans have faced over time: survival (predator/prey interaction, immune function, nourishment...), mating (mate selection, attraction & retention, sexual coercion, sperm competition, physical attractiveness, ...), parenting and kinship (parental investment, parent offspring conflict, and hormonal adaptations to parenting), and group living (social exchange, aggression, dominance, morality).
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In this project based laboratory course students will conduct research utilizing experimental evolution of microbial populations. The research will address questions that sythesize knowledge of genetics, biochemistry, systems biology, microbiology, evolution and ecology.
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How do we age? WHY do we age? If natural selection can effectively build "better" organisms, should organisms be immortal? This seminar explores both the mechanisms that cause aging, and the hypotheses used to explain its evolution. We will focus on human data and the genetics of aging in human populations, but use examples from across the domains of life to illustrate that aging is a universal phenomenon.
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An exploration of modern controversies in human nutrition from an evolutionary perspective, using primate and human dietary adaptations, digestive physiologies, feeding behavior and ecology. We will explore topics including: nutritional requirements, optimal foraging, maternal and infant nutrition, the nature of early hominid diets, the role of hunting and carnivory in human evolution, and finally, the nutritional impact of agriculture and technology on dietary composition and modern human diets.
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Human biology and behavior are considered in a broad evolutionary context, showing how the facts of development, physiology, neurobiology, reproduction, cognition, and especially behavior are informed by evolutionary theory and comparative evidence. Field and experimental data on other species are introduced with the aim of illuminating human behavior. Behavior is traced from its evolutionary function as adaptation, through its physiological basis and associated psychological mechanisms, to its expression. The role of ecology and social life in shaping human behavior is examined through the use of ethnographies and cross-cultural materials on a variety of human cultures. Topics include basic genetics, neural and neuroendocrine systems, behavioral development, sex differences, kinship and mating systems, ecology, language, and cognition.
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Origin, evolution, dispersal, paleoecology, and geologic history of the major groups of the plant kingdom. Laboratory study of representative groups, living and fossil.
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An important aspect of what makes us human is our unique reliance on diverse technologies. This class develops inferences about the evolution of technology from modern human traditional cultures, the archaeological record, hominin functional morphology, and comparisons with tool use in other primates. Readings, lectures, and discussions emphasize how technology is used for subsistence, shelter, physical protection, and other behaviors that helped ancestral hominins and contemporary humans occupy a range of variable environments.
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A survey of the origination and evolution of the major groups of vertebrates, with emphasis on the anatomical and physiological transformations that occurred during the transitions to diverse lineages of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The structures and functions exhibited in extant taxa are explored with perspectives from the fossil record.
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An exploration of the process of biological evolution, the way the biosphere and its inhabitants have changed through time, and how human actions affect the evolutionary process, thereby changing our contemporary biological environment. The mechanics and pace of evolution are examined from the molecular to the species level with an emphasis on the ecological context of natural selection. Modern approaches to the study of evolution - from genome sequencing to manipulative experiments in natural populations - are emphasized. Current controversies over the occurrence of evolution are discussed.
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The course covers micro- and macro-evolution, ranging in its focus from population genetics through molecular evolution to the grand patterns of the fossil record. Topics emphasized include both natural and sexual selection, the ecological context of adaptation, genomic and developmental mechanisms of evolutionary innovation, speciation, phylogenetics, and evolutionary approaches to human problems.
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A lecture course in evolutionary developmental biology. Main principles and mechanisms of development as illustrated on both invertebrate and vertebrate animal model systems. In this course we will discuss how animal embryos develop adult body plans on cellular and molecular level. Particular emphasis will be placed on how knowledge of developmental biology helps us understand major evolutionary transitions and the origin of innovation in animal evolution.
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Advanced topics of evolutionary dynamics. Seminars and research projects.
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