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Current
Courses

In 2025-26 Winter Semester, we are offering three new online courses in a wide range of subjects from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Our free and open online courses take place in our own Moodle instance.
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Cities at War

Lecture Series

This lecture series is jointly organized by scholars from war-torn cities focusing on how military conflicts and their aftermath have produced and re-produced their cities.

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Gender, Power and Social Transformation

Critical Approaches from Turkey and Beyond

SEMA SEMİH

This course brings together gender-focused academic research, civil society initiatives, activist interventions, and artistic practices selected from Turkey and beyond. It aims to critically analyze the rise of anti-gender ideologies on a global scale, opening up space to explore the possibilities of resistance, resilience, and transformative politics in different cultural and political contexts.

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Media Communication in the 21st Century

The Backbone of Democracy or a Tool of Social Oppression

Aksana Ulanovich, Andrii Kostyriev

This course is designed as an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholarship and practice. Students will engage critically with theory and current events, exploring themes such as the essence of political communication, media power, the watchdog–chain dog dilemma, post-truth networks, and the aesthetics and rhetoric of political media. Through discussion, debate, and collaborative research, we will uncover the techniques, tactics, and means by which media shape – and are shaped by – democratic and authoritarian contexts.

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Our courses are free and open to everyone. You don’t have to be a registered student at any university, and you don’t need to prove your background or education level to enrol on our courses.

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Publications on PubPub

Off University has a presence on PubPub, where you can access the publications of our research projects and interact with the text by leaving comments or annotate.

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