AU CORE: Complex Problems - Virtual Class
Thursday, February 11, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time
Location:
Virtual
Description:
CORE-105: Complex Problems Seminar - The Persistence of Pirates. This course studies a truly complex problem for all of humanity: piracy. In this sense, piracy refers to criminal activities conducted at a specific kind of intersection between a more-or-less recurring set of physical, social, and economic marginalities. Pirates have been with human society as long as there have been human societies with such margins (be they military, moral, social, or demographic). Students gain not only a good sense of why that is but also a sense of major processes within human societies and how these latent processes manifest in observable phenomena.
Registration period closes Thursday, February 11, 2021