Culture and Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1800-2000

4 credits · Undergraduate

The Eastern Mediterranean, like the larger Mediterranean world of which it is a part, has been a fascinating laboratory of unity and diversity—geographic, economic, social, political, and cultural—since Roman antiquity. In this course we look at the unity and diversity of culture in the region as related to population movements over the last two centuries. After considering historical and anthropological conceptions of culture, we consider the political developments, economic conditions, and violent conflicts that precipitated migration, both within the region and abroad.