Below is a list of our course offer for the 2025/26 academic year. Students, both incoming and continuing, will select from this list, as well as taking their mandatory courses. Please note that the list is subject to minor changes.
| Grand Debates in Eastern Mediterranean History |
| Grand Debates in Global History |
| Grand Debates Central European History |
| Grand Debates in Russian and Eurasian History |
| Historiography and Approaches to the Past |
| Academic Field Trip Seminar |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities |
| Digital Humanities Lab |
| OSA Archival Practice |
| Introduction to Codicology, Textual Criticism, and Methods of Critical Edition |
| From Text to Pixel: Digitization, Digital Editions, and On-Site Practice |
| China in the World: Politics, Identity, History |
| Politics of Crisis: Concepts, Actors, Discourses |
| Ancient Texts and Their Byzantine Readers |
| Byzantine Writers and Intellectuals between Ottomans and Latins |
| Art and Liturgy |
| The Policy of Historic Monuments: Uses and Abuses |
| Schisms and Divisions in Jewish History |
| Scripture and Authority in Book Religions |
| Jewish Heritage |
| Central Asia in the Soviet Empire |
| History and Visual Studies: Photography and Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century |
| Language as Cultural Heritage |
| Emotions and the Modern Historian |
| Text, Author, Meaning: Medieval Literature and Modern Critical Theory |
| Manuscripts, Textual Flow, New Audiences. Production and Reception of Texts (14th-15th Centuries) |
| Negotiation and Resistance: Between Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages |
| A History of Madness, Psychiatry and Culture |
| Great Themes in Late Antique and Medieval Philosophy |
| The Bible for Medievalists |
| Monastic Culture: History, Buildings, Landscape and Heritage |
| Archaeology of the Middle Ages, Historic Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology and Material Culture Studies |
| Dissent: Normbreakers from Stalin to Putin |
| Sources of Non-Conformism and their Contexts |
| Topics in Soviet Intellectual History |
| Science and Religion in the Modern Era |
| Sound, Music and Noise: Historical Perspectives |
| Central Europe: History, Culture and Politics |
| Commercial Goods and Trading Networks in Premodern Eurasia |
| Religious Dissent and Revolt |
| Discourses of Order I: Introduction to Premodern Political Thought |
| Discourses of Order II: Introduction to Modern Political Thought |
| Gender History |
| Ports and Cities around the Mediterranean - Comparative Perspectives from the Early to Late Ottoman Period |
| The Connected Histories of State- and Confession-Building in a Eurasian Perspective, 1400s-1600s |
| Crisis and Renewal in the Late Ottoman World |