EUR 503 - Perceptions and Inventions of Europe

This seminar will focus on the problematic of how Europe dealt with the rest of the world, taken mainly in a historical perspective, and stressing different aspects of the relation. The running thread is represented by the triple topics of contact, conflict, and exchange, using various types of travelers, such as explorers, geographers and merchants, as the starting points, but extending it scholars, artists, emigrants and exiles. Course will also look at how non-Europeans first met, described, and reacted to Europeans. Several media used.

3 credits

Grading ABCF grading.

Repeatable May be repeated for credit.