This seminar traces the "ghetto" and the Holocaust as central concepts in Jewish and Black historiography. The course will divide its time between the Jewish ghetto of Rome and the city of Warsaw, where we will hold classes at the new POLIN Museum. In addition spending time in the ghetto in Italy, students will also visit the Vatican. In Poland, the class will also visit Krakow, where students will explore the intact Jewish quarter dating from the late medieval and early modern period. In comparative perspective, U.S. Black ghettos from World War II to the present will be studied in depth.

This course explores history, language, and theater through the lens of an Italian collection of fairy tales, Basile's The Tale of Tales, which provides the basis for an original musical to be produced and performed by the class. Additionally, students will learn the craft of musical theatre writing by examining librettos, scores, and productions of selected Broadway musicals. Working in the town's historic palazzo, students will collaborate to create a site-specific performance involving local community artists, thereby developing an understanding of new works process and the principles of musical theater storytelling.

This seminar will offer an introduction to Viennese music, culture and history in the period 1900-1918, the celebrated Fin-de-siécle in which arts and culture blossomed in the city. Students will study music, literature, art and ideas generated in Vienna during this period. Classes will be held in Berggasse 19, the address where Freud lived and worked for over thirty years. Students will attend performances at the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic, and young musicians from the Philharmonic Academy will participate in some meetings. An important component of the course will be the study of and engagement with, the city of Vienna.

Based in Santiago at the Universidad Diego Portales, this seminar explores the connections between Chilean art and politics since the military coup of 1973 against President Salvador Allende, focusing on responses to censorship and repression by visual artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, and collectives, and considers the complex negotiations of the later democratic transition, the contemporary Chilean art and literary scenes, the implementation of neoliberalism, the feminist turn, the rise of recent political movements and the creation of a new constitution.

This course explores contemporary Kenya in the context of its historical positioning and modern value to Western econo-political interests, and how this translates in daily livelihoods of Kenyans. Focus is on 4 themes: 1) Kenya as home to the earliest human origins and civilizations; 2) Kenya's evolution as an "anti-socialism" capital of Western capitalism in the region; 3) The country's central position in anti-terrorism war between the West and Middle East; 4) Problematizing Kenya/Africa's image of corruption as an explanation of underdevelopment. Course is experiential. Excursions count towards final grade.

Modern agriculture is the most environmentally consequential activity that humans engage in. It has a profound impact on climate change, soil quality, water availability and risk of pandemics. However, agriculture itself is highly sensitive to climate change. This course covers the challenges of climate change, food availability and health in India. Traditional and novel solutions to carbon sequestration, and livestock practices that offer alternatives to the use of antibiotics will be discussed. Students will meet scientific and policy experts who will describe how India will have to adapt to tackle its 21st century challenges.

This seminar, taught at University of Tokyo and Peking University, with students from Princeton University and each of the two hosting universities, focuses on developing an understanding of contemporary Japanese and Chinese societies - their histories, cultures, politics, and economies - through lectures, readings, discussions, and tours in Japan and China. Excursions include an overnight trip to rural Japan to examine the role of population aging and rural depopulation on peripheral regions and a trip to Shanghai to experience a rapidly changing Chinese cultural setting.

This course will explore the historical roots of the Greek nation-state, the homogenization of its linguistic landscape, and the consolidation of an ethnic majoritarian understanding of citizenship and belonging, focusing on the role literature and culture play in these processes. Students will study literary, historical, anthropological, legal, and other materials, and will meet writers, scholars, politicians, and activists living in Greece and actively engaged in rethinking what Greece has been, is now, and could become in the future. Based in Athens, the course will also visit Corfu, Epirus and Thessaloniki.