Course Director: Prof. J. Judge - judge@yorku.ca This course uses the Chinese body as an entry point into the richness and complexity of daily life as it was lived and experienced in Chinese history. It focuses on two preeminent concerns in Chinese civilization—health and food—and on one of the most mysterious, widely condemned, and little […]
Course Director: Prof. L. Pourtavaf - lpourtav@yorku.ca This course introduces students to the practice of public history, the ways in which history is produced for and understood by public audiences. It examines the ways the past has been brought to bear upon the present through monuments, museum exhibitions, parks and historical sites, film, historical fiction, […]
Cross-listed with: AP/HUMA 1880 6.0 Responsible Unit: HumanitiesPlease contact the responsible unit for all inquiries An examination of the interaction of Jews and gentiles in selected periods from antiquity through the 20th century. A case study in ethnic adaptation, the course seeks to understand how Jews sometimes adapted their lives to the world around them, […]