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Ferry in a Venice canal. Photo Credit: Josh Cobler. BOSP Overseas Seminar in Venice. Summer Quarter 2017-18.

Explore Past Global Seminars

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Global Seminar locations change yearly to provide a wide range of themes and locations.

2023-24 Seminars

Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies

Faculty Leader: Ato Quayson

Kangnam Style: South Korea’s Soft Power Empire

Faculty Leader: Dafna Zur

Decolonial Approaches to African Arts

Faculty Leaders: Sarah Derbew & Usha Iyer

History, Urbanity, and Performance in The Middle East

Faculty Leader: Samer Al-Saber

Mexican Modernisms

Faculty Leaders: Hector Hoyos & Ximena Briceño

Shades of Grey Between Life and Death: Neuro-Ethics Across the Pacific

Faculty Leaders: Karen Hirsch & Holly Tabor

Engineering and Technology in India

Faculty Leader: Mykel Kochenderfer

2022-23 Seminars

Governance, Culture, and Innovation in Oxford

Faculty Leaders: Tom Wasow & Todd Davies

The Uttermost Part of the Earth: The Intersection of Nature and the Human Enterprise in Southernmost Patagonia

Faculty Leader: Rob Dunbar & David Mucciarone

Kangnam Style: South Korea’s Soft Power Empire

Faculty Leaders: Dafna Zur & Marci Kwon

Engineering and Technology in India

Faculty Leader: Mykel Kochenderfer

Introduction to Japan: History, Religion, Culture

Faculty Leader: Matt Sommer

Bio-Cultural Diversity and Community-Based Conservation in Oaxaca

Stanford Faculty Leader: Rodolfo Dirzo

Community Health in Oaxaca

Faculty Leaders: Catherine Heaney & Patricia Rodriguez-Espinosa

Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies

Faculty Leader: Ato Quayson

2021-22 Seminars

Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies

Faculty Leader: Ato Quayson

Exploring Israel’s Innovation Ecosystem in Human & Planetary Health: Can Start-Up Culture Heal the World?

Faculty Leaders: Sara Singer & Gordon Bloom

Faith, Science and the Classical Tradition in Renaissance Florence

Faculty Leaders: Richard Saller & Tanya Luhrmann

Jordanian Futurities between Ancient Antiquities and Performances of Urban Life

Faculty Leader: Samer Al-Saber

Community Health in Oaxaca

Faculty Leaders: Gabriel Garcia & Catherine Heaney

Coral Reefs of Palau: Marine Environment, Ecology and Management

Faculty Leader: Rob Dunbar