Undergrad program in Istanbul: Columbia Global Seminar in Istanbul: Byzantine and Modern Greek Encounters Building upon its existing relationship with Bogaziçi University and the Global Center, Columbia University is developing a new spring 2015 program in which students anchor their studies in Istanbul byHaiga Sofia Istanbul participating in two Columbia-style seminars taught by two distinguished Columbia faculty. The two seminars, composed of not more than 15 American, Turkish, and Greek students, will be taught consecutively in condensed sessions over the spring term. Although distinctive in their subject matter and disciplinary approach, each addresses the question of how, from the Middle Ages to the present, westerners have interpreted and incorporated features of Greek culture. The first course will explore the history of western Europeans’ relationship to Byzantine culture when Constantinople reigned as a cultural capital of Christendom; the second examines how the World has responded to Greece at the crossroads of East and West since the Fall of Constantinople with literature as its main lens for reading culture.
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