Discipline: History

Photography in Europe: Technology, Culture, Art

This course investigates the impact of photography on culture, art, and society from the first photo in Europe around 1840 and up until today. We explore the role of photography beyond mainstream cultural accounts, integrating a…

History of Photography in Europe, Technology, Culture, and Art

African American Expats in Copenhagen and Paris

This course examines the experiences of African American expatriates in Copenhagen and in Paris. While many are familiar with the stories of James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright in Paris, few know about…

DIS Summer, African American Expats in Copenhagen and Paris

Postcolonial Europe: Narratives, Nationalism, and Race

This course examines European colonial narratives and how they continue to inform current discourses of immigration, culture, and race in Europe. A comparative approach in this course allows for a deconstruction of national narratives of exceptionalism,…

Postcolonial Europe

Nordic Mythology

The religion and worldview of the pre-Christian Scandinavians is reflected in the mythology preserved in medieval texts and poems from the Viking Age. This course is based on readings of these primary texts and the Icelandic…

Nordic Mythology, summer study abroad at DIS Copenhagen

World of Vikings: Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy

In this course, we study the history, religion, and worldview of the pre-Christian Scandinavians as reflected in primary medieval texts and poems from the Viking Age. The course offers insights into the Viking Age in Scandinavia,…

World of Vikings: Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy, summer elective course at DIS Stockholm

Food and Identity

Food has always been closely linked to identity, but in the past two decades, it has also become the focus of a host of issues—everything from the industrialization of farming to the integration of immigrants—that reflect…

European Genocides

The Nazis went through a series of steps in their attempt to eliminate the European Jews, moving from mass shootings to the increasingly sophisticated application of gassing. Tracing this development, we study perpetrator profiles, victim strategies,…

European Genocides, Summer course at DIS Copenhagen