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02 Nov The Odyssey of Knowledge: From Flintstones to Space Shuttles [Anthropology]

Posted at 11:59h in Humanities Center Madrid Afternoon

All human societies depend completely on their collective know-how to be able to survive within their natural environment. But how do groups of humans acquire such knowledge that brought us to the internet and to the moon? How is collective memory created and accumulated, –...

30 Sep Writing Wilderness [Wilderness]

Posted at 12:52h in humanities center segovia morning

In this course, we will search for answers and explore Wilderness writ large. We will investigate how wilderness has been constructed through a range of creative and academic texts: eye-witness reports, travel narratives, landscape paintings, nature novels, philosophical essays, ecological manifestos, peer-reviewed journal articles, etc...

30 Sep CYBERUTOPIA AND TECHNODYSTOPIA [Cyberutopia]

Posted at 11:22h in Humanities Center Madrid Afternoon, humanities center segovia morning

Are new communication technologies a democratizing force opening up the direct participation of people in the political system? Has the widespread adoption of online communications given state bureaucracies and private corporations excessive power over individuals? This course will explore and problematize these questions, examining evolving...

30 Sep Ethics of Emerging Technologies [Ethics]

Posted at 10:39h in Humanities Center Madrid Afternoon, humanities center segovia afternoon

What are the potential benefits and costs of different innovations and applications? How should value trade-offs be resolved and how should opportunities and impacts be fairly distributed? And who should decide and enforce the answers to these questions?...

29 Sep Technology and the Making of the Modern World [Technology]

Posted at 17:05h in Humanities Center Madrid Afternoon, humanities center segovia afternoon

In this course, we will explore how technology has shaped the modern world from early industrialization to the present....