Sea-related student research project for the graduate course "Research Methods", Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Spring 2016 AUB.
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Noor Ali, a student at the American University of Beirut sat down with the captain of the FLOATS ship, Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, to talk about themes of memory, refuge, resistance (among others) in relation to the sea.
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The idea of locating the perfect society built on older notions of humanity’s origins, or, conversely, its ends. Tracing these across a number of periods and places, the seminar explores this history episodically. It looks at imagined or reasoned conceptions of the perfect society across a number of discursive traditions and textual genres. – from mythic and dialectic accounts to futurist science-fiction and revolutionary manifestos.
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