This quote by Clifford Geertz descibres the general theme of the English-language lecture Internationcal Cultural Studies, which focuses on key ideas, core concepts, and central theories that shape our cultures as well as the ways we act and think. In this weekly course, students will get to know some of the most influental ideas and philosophers of the last 250 years and discuss both the lives, theories, and modern implications of figures such as Rousseau, Gramsci or hooks.