Teaching

The Urban History Seminar

In cooperation with the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Center is holding its first seminar in Urban History. The main purpose of this course, taught by Tarik Cyril Amar, is to acquaint students with a small but significant selection of major approaches to this discipline, while also paying attention to the underlying processes of social, economic, political and cultural transformations, which have made and shaped cities. Students are encouraged to engage intellectually with various ways of interpreting these facts, including readings largely situated within the paradigms of modernization (and its discontents), discourse approaches, or psychology, and to probe the limits of the field of urban history, be they geographical or cultural.