Iran is an enigma: from empires to an Islamic Republic. This course will provide an overview of Iran's history, culture, society, and especially poetry (very important to better understand the country and its people).

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Tuesdays; Oct 6, 13, 20, WSTN - Brown Alley Room ( No seats currently available )

In order to understand the Holocaust, historians turn to diaries and photographs. The photographs, often taken by Nazis, and the diaries, almost always written by prisoners and witnesses and hidden by survivors, speak to us as we read and view them.

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Fridays, Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 9, 16, 23, TBD - UR Campus (2 seats (8%) remaining)

Based on the book 'Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust', this program highlights brave non-Jewish people who risked everything to help strangers in ten European countries Hitler ruled from 1939-1945.

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Thursday, December 17th, TBD - UR Campus

Premodern India was shaped by extraordinary women who shattered patriarchal norms, ruled empires, and transformed society through spirituality. Often operating at the intersection of religion, art, and statecraft, these trailblazers forged paths of resistance long before the modern era.

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Monday, Nov 2, Special Programs Building, Classroom 156