AY 2018/2019 COURSES

Please see the attachment at the bottom of the page for short course decriptions, compiled by departments. 

MANDATORY COURSES

• Matthias Riedl
  Discourses of Order I: Introduction to Premodern Political Thought  (2 credits, Fall)
• Matthias Riedl
  Discourses of Order II: Introduction to Modern Political Thought  (2 credits, Winter)

ELECTIVE COURSES

Spring, 2019

• Marci Shore 
  Phenomenology in Dark Times (1 credit, May 6-9)
  
  
• Aurelian Crautu
  Political Thought after 1989: Democracy in the Age of Populism (1 credit, May 20-25)
  
  
• David Malkiel
  Readings in the Thought of Moses Maimonides (1 credit, May 28-June 4)

Winter, 2019

• Emese Kürti
  Imagined Communities. Artistic Collectives and the Political Power during the Cold War (4 credits, Winter)
• András Bozóki and Zsolt Czigányik
  Individuals in the Microcosm of Power: Literary Texts and Politics (4 credits, Winter)
• Thomas Fetzer
  Dark Legacies: Coming to terms with Europe’s twentieth century (4 credits, Winter)
• Francisca de Haan
  Women and the UN (4 credits, Winter)
• Nenad Dimitrijevic
  Constitutionalism and Democracy (4 credits, Winter)
• Éva Fodor
  Gender, Labor Markets, Neoliberalism (2 credits, Winter)
• Nadia Jones-Gailani
  Postcolonialism and feminism(s)  (4 credits, Winter)
• Constantin Iordachi
  Populism and the Far Right in Historical Perspective (2 credits, Winter)
• János Kis
  Theory of Justice part II. (4 credits, only if completed both Fall and Winter)
• László Kontler
  Government and Knowledge: Ideas and Practices of State Building in Early Modern Europe (2 credits, Winter)
• László Kontler and Marcell Sebők
  Inventing Humanity. History, Anthropology, Politics, Representation (16th-19th Centuries) (2 credits, Winter)
• Michael Merlingen
  Hierarchies in/of World Politics (4 credits, Winter)
• Matthias Riedl
  Intensive reading seminar: Machiavelli’s “Discourses” (2 credits, Winter)
• Sarah Smith
  Critical Policy Studies (2 credits, Winter)
• Mate Nikola Tokic
  Foundations of the Contemporary International System, 1815 – 1920 (4 credits, Winter)
• Sanjay Kumar
  Re-imagining Pasts: Post-colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia (1945-2015) (4 credits, Winter)

• Michael Dorsch, Marie-Pierre F. Granger, Simon Rippon, Tamara Steger:
  Justice, Democracy and Social Movements (4 credits, Winter) University-wide course

Fall, 2018

• Aziz Al-Azmeh
  Foundations 1. State and Religion (2 credits, Fall)
• Francisca de Haan
  Communism and Gender: Historical and Global Perspectives (4 credits, Fall)
• Thomas Fetzer
  Ideas in International Political Economy: The case of (economic) nationalism (4 credits, Fall)
• György Geréby and  Matthias Riedl
  Political Theology – Ancient and Modern (2 credits, Fall)
• Béla Greskovits
  Worldly Philosophers of Capitalism, Democracy and Development (4 credits, Fall)
• Elissa Helms
  Gender and Nationalism (4 credits, Fall)
• Nadia Jones-Gailani
  Gender and Migration I: Modernity and the Political Subject (4 credits, Fall)
• János Kis
  Theory of Justice part I. (4 credits, only if completed both Fall and Winter)
• Angéla Kóczé
  Gender, Race, Class: Global Inequalities  (2 credits, Fall)
• László Kontler
  The Enlightenment: History, Historiography, Legacy (4 credits, Fall)
• Zoltán Miklósi
  Foundations of Political Philosophy (2 credits, Fall)
• Andres Moles
  War (2 credits, Fall)
• Andres Moles
  Introduction to Political Theory: Justice and Equality (4 credits, Fall)
• Matthias Riedl
  Intensive reading seminar: Augustine’s The City of God (2 credits, Fall)
• Sarah Smith
  Gender, Peace and Security (4 credits, Fall)
• Mate Nikola Tokic
  
  The Other in European History and Politics (4 credits, Fall)