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In the Anthropocene, humanity has become, for the first time, a geological agent transforming the conditions of life on earth, but this power itself gives rise to unprecedented challenges, from air pollution and floods to nuclear fallout and plagues, from

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Why does the act of leaving home generate literary masterpieces around the globe? What are the painful and productive aspects of displacement? This course takes a cross-cultural and cross-temporal approach to questions of exile and migration, following their depiction across