courses

Modern European Political Theories | Dr. Iris Nachum | Fall Semester 2021

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2021

The seminar examines the historical development of key political theories in modern Europe. In doing so, special attention is given to social contract theory, liberalism, individualism, and socialism. The seminar’s approach is multidisciplinary, combining elements from history, political science, philosophy, and law.

Ancient Monuments and Places of Memory - Between Science Orientalism, Translocation and Restitution | Dr. Matthias Schmidt | Spring Semester 2021

Semester: 
2nd semester
Offered: 
2021

The seminar will focus on prominent representative examples of seizure of cultural goods during colonialism, specific large-scale displacements and translocations as a result of a partition of excavation discoveries and research expeditions and on other displacements of ancient cultural assets from the Greek and Roman World as well as Mesopotamia and Egypt - like Troia, Mykene, Delphi, Athens, Pergamon, Tell Halaf, Uruk, Ninive, Babylon, Armana and the Valley of the Kings.