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The proposed course takes cultural artifacts as the foundational blocks of the Levant, asking a fundamental question about how a contemporary state exists on top and beside the ancient past, by exploring three cities: Petra, Jerash, and Amman. All three cities have large theatres that suggest a particular pattern of growth over time, and play a major role in how these cities function today as tourist attractions and a geography for performances of everyday life. In these three case studies, students will investigate how culture, in its broadest definition, has shaped the destiny of the Levant historically and in the present day. We will ask: How did three major metropolitan cities that stretch back to antiquity develop into very different urban living spaces today? Why do all of them have a massive theatrical space in their midst? For the 2024 program, we've added reading inscriptions as a tool for examining our relationship with the city, past and present.

Coral reef ecology, biogeochemistry, physics with a view towards developing science-based solutions for coral reef protection and management.

Interdisciplinary seminar emphasizing two major areas of study: biological sciences (ecology) and culture (the human dimensions of conservation and use of natural resources based on indigenous traditional knowledge). Challenges and opportunities of interacting with researchers and students from other cultures; analysis of the ways in which academic institutions and rural, indigenous institutions are, jointly, undertaking the challenge of sustainably managing biological resources. Location: Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico.

This course will introduce students to an East African country ? Kenya ? whose artists and scholars have been at the forefront of decolonial theory. Heeding the call of the esteemed Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose literary manifesto Decolonizing the Mind calls on readers to reject colonial impositions and celebrate the vitality of African literature and theater, the course will teach students about decolonial literary, visual, and performance practices in Nairobi, Kenya. The course is highly interactive and structured around field trips to literary hubs, museums, performances and film screenings, as well as interactive workshops in creative writing, storytelling, filmmaking, and musical production.

Argentina is a vast country with a diverse geography and population. It has a rich cultural, scientific, and technological history, with a strong art and humanities scene. Argentina is the only South American country with Nobel Laureates in science, and it also has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem with multiple unicorns. This Bing Overseas Studies Program will provide students with a unique insight into the technology and culture of one of South America's strongest countries, which was once an emblem of economic power and is now on its way back into strong sustainable growth.

How are cities, towns and landscapes interconnected in the postcolonial present? How do histories of imperialism and colonialism leave imprints on landscapes, built environments and the connections between them? This course explores these questions through three weeks of lived experience in contemporary Jordan. Jordan is an ideal space to critically analyze the postcolonial nation state as a political form of landscape-making from the capital city to secondary cities to their coastal and interior hinterlands. Studies will discuss, journal and critically analyze their experience of moving over these landscapes, with journeys through rural and semi-urban landscapes constituting sites of inquiry as much as destinations.