This course examines the Andean culture through the study of literature, folklore, media, music, painting, sculpture and crafts popular and traditional of the Andean countries. The students become acquainted with various aspects of the popular...
Cinema was born in Paris, at the end of the 19th century. The culmination of a century of technical innovations and artistic revolutions, cinema embodies modernity. It will thus replace literature and celebrate, in turn, the myth of Paris; to such an...
Study of the rich cultural history of Austria from the Celtic and Roman heritage (150 B.C. – 400 A.D.), the Bajuvarian immigration from Southern Germany (starting about 500 A.D.), the Babenberg dynasty (976 – 1246), the Habsburg Empire (1278 – 1918)...
“There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”— M.F.K. Fischer, The Gastronomical Me
As culinary historian Massimo Montanari argues, everything related to food — from the choices made by hunter gatherers to...
"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk." - M.F.K. Fischer, The Gastronomical Me
As culinary historian Massimo Montanari argues, everything that has to do with food – from the choices made by primitive...
"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk." - M.F.K. Fischer, The Gastronomical Me
As culinary historian Massimo Montanari argues, everything that has to do with food – from the choices made by primitive...
In 2010, UNESCO declared that French cuisine met all of the conditions to be considered “a culture recognized and classified in the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” This course will be an anthropological, cultural, sociological, historic...
The course examines the rise of trauma as a prominent cultural discourse for the representation of individual and collective injuries and catastrophic events in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will follow the historical process through which...
The primary objective of this course is for the students to acquire a complex understanding of the cultures of Al Andalus and their presence in modern Andalusia and Northern Morocco, focusing on art, architec-ture, ornamentation, and design. We will...
The realization of the concept of the nation and nationalism in most Central and East-Central European countries from the 18th to the 20th century was supported and accelerated by, as well as reflected in, art and art-forms. The study of art in this...