“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.”
Peter Galison[1]
Cities are not only where...
Cities are not only where most of the world’s population now lives, they also use 78% of the world’s resources and produce more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, innovating cities around the world are leading the way in...
Salamanca is an aging and depopulated province where there is still traditional knowledge about sustainable management of natural resources and environmentally friendly production practices. This wisdom is being lost, although some people are using...
The increase in the world's population has been (and still is) used as a scapegoat for the evils that haunt the earth: poverty, hunger, global warming, ecological damage, deforestation, biodiversity threat, depletion of the seas, energy shortages...
Since ancient Roman times up to Early Modern Italy, gender determined an individual’s life and career as much as social class or economic status. Career options for men lay in the public domain, where personal networks were as important as education...
This course will focus on and provide insight into health and healthcare within community settings in South Africa. The socio-economic landscape of South Africa will be introduced, in order to provide a backdrop for how healthcare is delivered within...
"The very ink with which History is written is merely fluid prejudice," Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales.
What are the origins of modern religious, racial, and ethnic prejudice and persecution in Europe? Why have anti-Semitism and...
This course examines the impact of the Black Death (1348-1350) on Italy, with particular attention to the demographic, social, economic, intellectual, legal, and gender consequences of this terrible pandemic. Beginning with an introduction to the...
This course will examine the various ways law constructs race and racial identity in the Netherlands, the United States, and Europe. We will build on the term “law” in the title by drawing on sources from history, sociology, and anthropology as well...
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most high-impact and sustainable innovations for solving society’s most difficult challenges in Europe and across the globe. Social Entrepreneurs have won Nobel Peace Prizes, radicalised health care systems...