Introduction to Disability Studies

Professor: Erin Braselmann  

Course Number: HR 109

CRN Number: 10204

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

This course will serve as an introduction to disability studies as an interdisciplinary field. The intent is to provide an overview of different conceptions and construction of disability throughout society and how disabled people are affected by such. The course will take an intersectional approach in analyzing and critiquing social systems and manifestations of disability through critical disability theory. Specifically, the course will focus on the history of disability and the disability rights movement, medical and social models of disability, accessibility and accommodations, disability policy and the legal landscape, representations of people with disabilities in culture, and more. Students will learn to think critically about disability in a variety of contexts. Students will also develop a better understanding of systems of power and oppression as they relate to disability and accessibility. Course readings may include, but not be limited to, works by: Judy Heumann, Alice Wong, Keith A. Mayes, Sonya Huber, Eli Clare, Simi Linton, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Robert McRuer, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Jasbir K. Puar, David J. Connor, and Ronald J. Berger. Course content will include narratives, essays, articles, podcasts, and film or other media.

Human Rights and the Middle East

Professor: Ziad Abu-Rish  

Course Number: MES 210

CRN Number: 10292

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Human Rights

(Human Rights Core Course) This seminar introduces students to questions about human rights abuses and human rights advocacy in the Middle East, within a global comparative historical framework. As such, the course is divided into three parts. First, we will explore the changing relationship of the international human rights regime to national and regional governing structures as well as social movements and advocacy groups. Second, we will survey a common set of human rights abuses to understand their similar and differential manifestation in relation to historical, regional, and other contexts. Finally, we will familiarize ourselves with key examples of campaigns and other struggles that frame(d) themselves as human rights advocacy. In pursuing these parts of the course, we will read, listen, and watch theoretical and case-specific resources on self-determination, women’s equality, labor justice, migrant rights, and LGBTQ justice. D+J: As a course dealing with human rights in the Middle East, this seminar will be particularly attentive to how difference (e.g., language, race, sex, gender, sexuality, and nationality) informs systematic human rights abuses, and how communities defined by difference through one or more of these categories have mobilized to challenge such abuses.

LGBTQ Rights are Human Rights

Professor: Robert Weston  

Course Number: HR 213

CRN Number: 10297

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

(Human Rights Core Course) This course offers students an in-depth survey of historical and contemporary struggles for LGBT rights, from the right to association and repeal of anti-sodomy statutes, to privacy rights, equal protection, and military service, from employment discrimination, same sex marriage, and adoption rights, to transgender rights around restroom access and incarceration. While the course focuses on LGBT rights in the U.S., we also consider broader contexts in American history, globalization and international human rights law. Topics in the first part of the course include 1) a brief introduction to homophobia and anti-gay legislation; 2) Pioneering early homosexual emancipation movements in Germany before the rise of National Socialism and 3) Pre-Stonewall “homophile movements” in the United States in the context of 1950s anti-communist hysteria. In the second part of the course, topics include: 1) The Stonewall Riots (1969) and development of a national gay rights movement in tandem with the Civil and Women's Rights movements of the 1960s; 2) Conservative anti-gay backlash and “moral panic” surrounding the anti-gay campaigns of the 1970s; and 3) The AIDS crisis and radical queer activism during the “culture wars” of the 1980s. In the third part of the course, we explore how the political struggle for gay rights has played out in elections, in the U.S. congress, and in the courts, including 1) Decriminalizing homosexuality from Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) to Lawrence v. Texas (2003); 2) Allowing gays to serve openly in the military, from “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (1994) to the Murphy Amendment (2010); 3) Legalizing same-sex marriage, from DOMA (1996) to Obergefell v. Hodges (2015); and 4) Transgender access to public restrooms, from Cruzan v. Special School District (2002) to North Carolina’s HB2 (2016). Students will become familiar with major U.S. advocates for LGBT rights, such as the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, as well as with important global developments concerning LGBT rights in the arena of International human rights law, such as the Yogyakarta Principles (2007).

Free Speech

Professor: Pinar Kemerli  

Course Number: PS 218

CRN Number: 10631

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Human Rights

(Human Rights Core Course) “Free speech” is seen as a core liberal freedom and democratic right, but its exercise and reach is often meticulously controlled. Indeed, “which” speech, and “whose” speech, is protected as “free speech” can be a major source of political controversy. In this course, we examine “free speech” and contemporary debates around it as a site of ideological struggle and political confrontation. Beginning with a survey of the historical roots and evolution of “free speech” as a political right, the course will move to analyze how the exercise of this right has been controlled, curtailed, and at times all together repressed on the basis of case studies selected from across the world. We will address, for instance, the controversies around the Charlie Hebdo case in France, repressions of debates on Armenian genocide in Turkey, attacks on Critical Race Theory and the BDS movement in the U.S., and recent concerns about a “Palestine exceptionalism” to free speech. Theorists and activists covered will include John Stuart Mill, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt, Jeremy Waldron, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Talal Asad, Judith Butler, and Noura Erakat.

Epidemics and Society

Professor: Helen Epstein  

Course Number: HR 223

CRN Number: 10298

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Global Public Health

Epidemiologists investigate patterns in the spread of diseases, predict when and where outbreaks will occur and identify who is most at risk.   Modern epidemiology emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries when populations in the US and Europe encountered a spate of new diseases including cholera, typhus, lung cancer and lead poisoning.  These epidemics arose from new methods of industrial production, changing patterns of trade, urbanization and migration, and new personal habits and ways of life.  This course how the spread of many diseases are governed by social, political and economic forces.  We will also learn how epidemics have been addressed throughout history, in some cases through medical or technological intervention and in others through social, economic and political transformation. Today, some of our most serious public health threats are emerging not from the material realm of microbes and toxins, but from the political, social and psychological environment itself.  For example, we’ll examine how epidemiologists have recently exposed the role of racism in mental illness and of “shock therapy” economic policies on soaring rates of alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide.

(Un)Defining the Human

Professor: Robert Weston  

Course Number: HR 234

CRN Number: 10299

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Philosophy

(Human Rights Core Course)  At least since Aristotle, philosophers have sought to delineate the contours of the human, to define what it means to be a specifically human being. To define what it means to be human is at once to exclude those modes of being deemed to be not human—a process of exclusion that produces various categories of otherness as non-human, or even inhuman: thing, animal, savage, slave, other, foreigner, stranger, cyborg, alien. In this course, students engage with a range of theoretical discussions that attempt to situate the human being vis-à-vis its varying “others.” Readings—drawn from a range of periods and discourses—may include classical (Aristotelian) conceptions of the human, 17th- and 18th-century theories of “human nature” (e.g., Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, Mandeville, La Mettrie, Condillac, Rousseau, Herder, Kant, Schiller), 19th-century Materialist and Social Darwinist thought (e.g., Marx, Nietzsche, Darwin, Spencer) with emphasis on more contemporary discussions in the fields of cognitive science, socio-biology, philosophical biology, phenomenology, ontology, theology, discourse analysis, Post-Structuralism, Speculative Realism, Post-Humanism, and Object-Oriented Ontology.

Constitutional Law

Professor: Roger Berkowitz and Peter Rosenblum

Course Number: HR 243

CRN Number: 10300

Class cap: 30

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Henderson Comp. Center 106

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Philosophy; Politics

(HRP core course) This course will provide an introduction to constitutional theory and the evolution of constitutional law in the United States  The course begins with a look at the history and theory of constitutionalism with a particular focus on the writing of Aristotle, Montesquieu and Arendt.  We then explore the advent of written constitutions in the United States and the Federal Constitution, before diving into developments in US Constitutional law from the founding through the New Deal.  Finally, we will explore some key issues in emerging constitutional law that wrestle with core concepts of constitutionalism, including voting rights, campaign finance and the administrative state.  The course confronts the role of a constitution in the state and the particular challenges of a written constitution enforced by courts.  In addition to theoretical and historical materials, the course will include substantial case law readings as well as legal writing by contemporary scholars.

Anthropology of Violence and Suffering

Professor: Laura Kunreuther  

Course Number: ANTH 261

CRN Number: 10340

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

(Human Rights Core course) Why do acts of violence continue to grow in the ‘modern’ world?  In what ways has violence become naturalized in the contemporary world?  In this course, we will consider how acts of violence challenge and support modern ideas of humanity, raising important questions about what it means to be human today.  These questions lie at the heart of anthropological thinking and also structure contemporary discussions of human rights.  Anthropology’s commitment to “local culture”  and cultural diversity has meant that anthropologists often position themselves in critical opposition to “universal values,” which have been used to address various forms of violence in the contemporary world. The course will approach different forms of violence, including ethnic and communal conflicts, colonial history, war, torture and its individualizing effects, acts of terror and institutionalized fear, and rituals of bodily pain that mark individuals’ inclusion or exclusion from a social group.  The course is organized around three central concerns.  First, we will discuss violence in its structural and everyday forms that becomes a means of producing and consolidating social and political power.  Second, we will look at forms of violence that have generated questions about “universal rights” of humanity versus culturally specific practices. Finally, we will look at the ways human rights institutions have sought to address the profundity of human suffering and pain, and ask in what ways have they succeeded and/or failed.  Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on how recent events might be thought about through an anthropological perspective on violence and suffering.  In addition to fulfilling one of the 200-level anthropology requirements, this course is a Human Rights core class for the Human Rights major and fulfills one of the requirements for the forthcoming Human Rights certificates.

The Spatial Politics of Human Rights

Professor: Olga Touloumi  

Course Number: ARTH 274

CRN Number: 10090

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists: Architecture; Human Rights

(Human Rights Core Course) During the twentieth century there was an international effort to set in place a global human rights system. International institutions and civic organizations invited architects, planners, illustrators and designers to participate in this new system of human rights in diagnostic operations, surveys, but also in practical ways on the ground. This course will investigate how architecture and human rights intersected during those efforts to establish a larger system of human rights, as well as the spatial politics that these intersections produced and enabled. Students will engage in the study of the discourse on human settlements, the ideologies of development, architectures of humanitarian aid, population exchanges and legal frameworks, border building and peacekeeping operations, but also structures of solidarity, networks of nonalignment, and critiques of the concept of human rights and their implied anthropocentrism vis-à-vis calls for climate commons and care infrastructures. We will be reading Samuel Moyn, Eyal Weisman, David Crowe, Felicity Scott, Nancy Fraser, Hannah Arendt, Andrew Herscher, Chantal Mouffe, Quinn Slobodian, among others. The course requires readings, short forum assignments, and a final research paper.

A Human Right to Homes or Homelessness

Professor: Kwame Holmes  

Course Number: HR 278

CRN Number: 10616

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies

(Human Rights Core course) This seminar in homelessness and human rights will be organized by two interrelated questions: 1. How have antipoverty and Human Rights activists attempted to establish a right to shelter in Western nation-states? 2. How does homelessness, as a lived/observed/ignored experience, expose “the home,” domesticity, the single family dwelling, and the private sphere are themselves generative of multiple human rights crises? We’ll begin with foundational settler colonial projects and their trans-historical work to locate “unsettled” indigenous populations, emancipated “vagrants,” and “landless vagabonds” outside of moral, legal and national community We’ll engage the emergence of the term (and social problem) “homelessness” as both a compassionate and anxious response to a rapidly expanding, domestically untethered, sometimes disabled, other times queer, cis male (and masculine presenting) population at the turn of the 20th century. We’ll think homelessness through the feminine, exploring the challenges divorced women, single mothers and trans femmes in securing shelter in the 1960s and 1970s. We’ll read the testimony of folks who move “seamlessly” between friends’ couches, parking lots, roadside motels, warming shelters and county jails. We’ll interrogate how, at extremis, homelessness resists Western norms that demand we lock visible evidence of financial precarity and emotional variability behind the doors of one’s residence, to shroud them within appropriate dress and to obscure them with layers of “clean” odor (as defined by personal hygiene product manufacturers). We’ll expose the consequences of mass-production of single family homes for global climate. And we’ll study the work of activists for tenant’s rights, squatters rights and a constitutional right to sleep under the open sky.

Asylum

Professor: Peter Rosenblum Danielle Riou

Course Number: HR 282

CRN Number: 10295

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Politics

Asylum is an ancient practice by which a persecuted individual claims protection from another sovereign power. Today, asylum is enshrined in international law and in the laws of most countries. Asylum, however, is anything but given: it must be claimed; and to do this, an asylum seeker's lived experience must be carefully translated into law's idiosyncratic language. In the past 12 months, more than 130,000 potential asylum applicants have arrived in New York State, but only a small fraction will get the full legal support necessary to do this effectively. This course is a direct response to our current situation: It is an intensive introduction to - and practical training in – asylum in the United States. In addition to classes devoted to the history, law and politics of asylum, students will work on individual asylum applications in collaboration with a legal services provider in the Hudson Valley.  Interested students should send a note indicating their language skill (if any), their interest, and any relevant experience to the instructors prosenbl@bard.edu and riou@bard.edu. Students with competence in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, French, Portuguese, or Turkish are particularly encouraged.

Documentary Arts: Practices of Fact and Fiction, History and Politics

Professor: Argyro Nicolaou

Course Number: HR 318

CRN Number: 10301

Class cap: 7

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities

The need to document contemporary and historical experiences has always been at the heart of the arts, be it literature, music, painting and sculpture, filmmaking or live arts/performance. Yet an equally long tradition of thought exists that insists on separating fact from fiction; stories from history; and aesthetics from politics, relegating any serious pursuit of truth to so-called documentary practices alone. But what counts as documentary? Can't the artful also document? And if so, what sorts of relationships of representation and critical interpretation emerge from the merging of artistic practices with the facts and consequences of historical and/or contemporary sociopolitical events? This seminar will draw from a diverse tradition of historical fiction on the page and screen, political cinema, research-based art and critical theory to explore the different ways in which the arts can document reality and how ‘real-life’ documents are turned into art. (D&J justification: As a course dealing with the comparative study of how the arts can document reality, this course will emphasize the ways in which social differences of various types manifest in and are addressed by artistic practices in their documentation of reality.)

Writing about Images

Professor: Adam Shatz  

Course Number: HR 324

CRN Number: 10302

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Art History and Visual Culture; Film and Electronic Arts; Photography; Written Arts

Photographs are so ubiquitous, and now so easily produced on our phones, as to seem almost natural -- an extraordinary status for a form of image-making not even two centuries old. This course seeks to defamiliarize photographs -- to restore their historical novelty and strangeness -- so that we might reflect on their relationship to systems of power and authority, sexuality, race, colonialism, mourning, evidence-gathering, the writing of history and the practice of human-rights investigation. Building on the work of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, John Berger, and Susan Sontag, the course will include readings by, among others, Guy Debord, Edward Said, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, Teju Cole, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Trin Minh-Ha, Allan Sekula, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Glauber Rocha. Although the focus of the course is photographic imagery, we will also study filmmakers who have reflected explicitly on photography, such as Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Harun Farocki. Throughout the course we will be asking: What are we doing when we look at photographs? How do they reflect, and even help to produce, our world? How might they be used to change it?

Does Might Make Right?

Professor: Thomas Bartscherer  

Course Number: HR 346 OSU

CRN Number: 10636

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      9:10 AM - 11:30 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value   

Crosslists: Classical Studies; Literature

Speaking at the United Nations in September, 2021, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield noted that in ratifying the Charter of the UN and adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the member states were disavowing the idea, as she put it, that "might makes right," and committing themselves instead to "a new set of self-binding principles" that aim to "prevent conflict, alleviate human suffering, defend human rights, and engage in an ongoing dialogue to improve the lives of all people." Her remarks evoke a famous passage from an English translation of the Greek historian Thucydides, often cited as the classical statement of political realism: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." In this course, we will focus on the vibrant debate over the question of whether "might makes right" that occurs in the literary, historical, and philosophical writings of Athens in the fifth century BCE. Most of the texts we read will be ancient, but the questions they address are of urgent contemporary concern. We will look at the original context of that passage, wherein Thucydides conducts a subtle analysis of the claims of justice against the prerogatives of force. We will also see how this debate plays out in the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle and in contemporaneous literary texts, including the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. We will also compare material in ancient texts from other traditions, including the Buddhist Edicts of Asoka, the Hebrew Bible, and the Christian New Testament. Our aims will be: to see how these cultures, so different from the one that brought forth the UN?s Universal Declaration, grappled with this enduring dilemma; to trace the influence of the these ancient texts on modern conceptions of human rights; and to bring these diverse perspectives to bear on our own thinking about "might" and "right." All readings will be in English. This is an OSUN Online Class, taught online and open to Bard students and students from OSUN partner institutions.

Water-Bodies: Confluences, Deltas, Gulfs

Professor: Juliana Steiner  

Course Number: HR 353

CRN Number: 10303

Class cap: 7

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

  Wed       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 302

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental Studies

This seminar explores the relationship between bodies of water, human bodies, and territories. It asks to see different bodies of water as movement, as subjects and as eco-societal spaces. Through case studies encompassing different (fresh and salty) bodies of waters, explored through the fields of environmental justice, contemporary art, indigenous and embodied forms of knowledge, science and architecture, this course experiments with the deltas and flows of water as metaphors of knowledge-making. It will explore the in-between spaces between land and water, the dry and the wet and will ask how different bodies of water occupy time, space and history—and are shaped by the way humans represent them. The class will engage with the natural and watery world through bodily acts of learning, visual and textual analysis, field trips and individual research.

LGBTQ+ Issues in US Education

Professor: Michael Sadowski  

Course Number: HR 358

CRN Number: 10672

Class cap: 15

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course will examine both the history and contemporary landscape of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related (LGBTQ+) issues in U.S. education, with an emphasis on recent "Don't Say Gay" and anti-trans legislation at the state level. Students will explore the legal, political, pedagogical, and empirical questions that have been central to this field over the last three decades, such as: What are the rights of LGBTQ+ students and educators, and what are the obstacles to their being realized? What strategies have been successful in advocacy for more LGBTQ+ positive schools, and what lessons do they hold for future change? What do LGBTQ+ supportive school environments look like, and what does research tell us about their effectiveness? Although K–12 schooling will be the primary focus of the class, we will also examine the landscape of higher education vis-à-vis LGBTQ+ issues. As a final project, students will present an “educational change plan,” in which they envision how they might contribute to positive change in an area related to this relatively nascent field.

Queer of Color Critique

Professor: Kwame Holmes  

Course Number: HR 397

CRN Number: 10617

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon      1:30 PM - 3:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

In his seminal 1996 book, Aberrations in Black, Roderick Ferguson launched queer of color critique.  Ferguson revealed that queer theory had failed to think through racialized political economic of normative sexuality and that Marxist theory had failed to account for the exchange and use values attached to the material labors and cultural representations of non-white bodies. In short, dominant social theory had not provided any language that helped queer scholars and activists from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds to describe their intersecting marginalization vis a vis the dominant culture ortheir experiences of alienation within their minoritarian category.  In Ferguson’s wake came Black Queer, Asian American Queer, Indigenous Queer and Latin(e) Queer subfields of study and theorization.  This advanced readings course will introduce students to the foundational texts of these disciplines and teach them how to deploy them as interpretive tools which reveal previously unknown dimensions of four human rights crises in the United States: Mass incarceration, settler colonialism, reproductive justice and immigration/deportation policy.  Students will be asked to write a weekly response essay, co-lead one discussion and prepare a final essay, artistic project or activist intervention in consultation with the professor.  This course will fulfill the American and Indigenous Studies junior seminar requirement.

The Rebel: How the Literature and Philosophy of Albert Camus Can Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

Professor: Thomas Williams  

Course Number: HR 398

CRN Number: 10304

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value   

Crosslists:

French Studies

In the strange and chaotic early weeks and months of 2020, as the world outside of China slowly awakened to the gravity and breadth of the COVID-19 threat, an old, seemingly forgotten book stealthily roused itself from the depths of high school curricula and ascended the bestseller lists in dozens of countries. Albert Camus’s The Plague, a beautifully rendered story of quarantine, loss and resilience, was suddenly all too relevant. But there is an entire world of thought and feeling to be explored beyond this most timely novel. In this seminar course, we will combine a close reading of a variety of Camus’s literary and philosophical texts with aspects of his biography and first-person writing and travel writing/reporting. There are so many ways to apply his work, which has aged so well compared to his contemporaries, to our current crises: from the absurdity of living and creating life-affirming meaning at a time when it increasingly feels like we’ve been thrust in a simulation, to his conception of political rebellion and resistance to authoritarian regimes, to his thirst for romance and love of nature (specifically sea and sun) at a moment of social atomization and climate degradation—as well as the struggle for dignity during armed conflict and war. As Camus reminds us, there is much more to life than the absurdity of our identities and circumstances and we make our own meaning in the struggle to discover it.

Anthropology of Violence and Suffering

Course Number: ANTH 261

CRN Number: 10340

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Laura Kunreuther

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 101

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

Post-Apartheid Imaginaries

Course Number: ANTH 275

CRN Number: 10341

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

Doing Ethnography

Course Number: ANTH 324

CRN Number: 10344

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Maria Sonevytsky

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

Crosslists:

Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

Political Ecology

Course Number: ANTH 349

CRN Number: 10345

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 308

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

Ethnography of Law and Affect

Course Number: ANTH 377

CRN Number: 10343

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Andrew Bush

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      5:10 PM - 7:30 PM Olin 310

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies; Study of Religions

Architecture as Translation: At Scale

Course Number: ARCH 211

CRN Number: 10546

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

Professor:

Betsy Clifton

Schedule/Location:

Mon       1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

  Wed     1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

Archaeology and Colonial Entanglements

Course Number: ARTH 264

CRN Number: 10089

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Anne Chen

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 102

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists:

Anthropology; Classical Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

Dura-Europos and the Problems of Archaeological Archives

Course Number: ARTH 318

CRN Number: 10098

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Anne Chen

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Fisher Studio Arts ANNEX

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists:

Classical Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

Technology, Humanity & the Future

Professor: Krista Caballero  

Course Number: ARTS 240

CRN Number: 10540

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

The Belly is a Garden

Course Number: ARTS 310

CRN Number: 10683

Class cap: 10

Credits: 4

Professor: Vivien Sansour  

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Avery Film Center 338

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

The Courage to Be: Achilles, Socrates, Antigone, Mother Courage, Barbara Lee

Course Number: CC 108 A

CRN Number: 10330

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Thomas Bartscherer

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Henderson Comp. Center 106

Distributional Area:

LA MBV  Literary Analysis in English Meaning, Being, Value   

Crosslists:

Human Rights; Literature

Courage To Be: The Freedom to Write

Course Number: CC 108 C

CRN Number: 10332

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jana Mader

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

MBV SA  Meaning, Being, Value Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Human Rights; Literature

Courage To Be: Black Contrarian Voices

Course Number: CC 108 D

CRN Number: 10333

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Thomas Williams

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

HA MBV  Historical Analysis Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Human Rights; Literature

Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine

Professor: Michelle Murray and Ziad Abu-Rish

Course Number: CC 120 A

CRN Number: 10629

Class cap: 30

Credits: 2

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 103

Jan 29 – March 26

Distributional Area:

HA SA  Historical Analysis Social Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Politics

Keywords for Our Times: Understanding Israel/Palestine

Professor: Michelle Murray and Ziad Abu-Rish  

Course Number: CC 120 B

CRN Number: 10630

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 103

Distributional Area:

HA SA  Historical Analysis Social Analysis   

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Politics

Greek Tragedy in the 21st Century

Professor: Lauren Curtis  

Course Number: CLAS 119

CRN Number: 10107

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

Crosslists: Human Rights; Theater and Performance

The Right to Employment

Course Number: ECON 227

CRN Number: 10678

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor: Kyle Mohr  

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 204

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Sociology

Data Analytics for Contextualizing Place and Environmental Change

Course Number: ES 210

CRN Number: 10194

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jordan Ayala

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 107

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

Crosslists:

Architecture; Human Rights

Latin-Americans in the United States

Professor: Miles Rodriguez  

Course Number: HIST 2101

CRN Number: 10308

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Global and International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

Migrants and Refugees in the Americas

Course Number: HIST 225

CRN Number: 10311

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

Student Protest and Youth Activism in Modern China

Course Number: HIST 239

CRN Number: 10309

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Robert Culp

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Asian Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Politics

Beyond Witches, Abbesses, and Queens: European Women 1500-1800

Course Number: HIST 297

CRN Number: 10313

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Tabetha Ewing

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin Languages Center 210

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

Re-Thinking Silicon Valley

Course Number: HIST 382

CRN Number: 10316

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights

The Beautiful Game: A Global History of Soccer

Course Number: HIST 392 OSU

CRN Number: 10415

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Lloyd Hazvineyi

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      8:00 AM - 10:20 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis   

Crosslists:

Global & International Studies; Human Rights

Hope in the Dark: Eurasian Fantasy and Folklore

Professor: Olga Voronina  

Course Number: LIT 164

CRN Number: 10261

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin Languages Center 115

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

Crosslists: Human Rights; Russian and Eurasian Studies; Written Arts

Like Family: Domestic Worker Characters in Fiction

Course Number: LIT 282

CRN Number: 10377

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

Professor:

Marina van Zuylen

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Human Rights

Hannah Arendt: Reading The Human Condition and the Plurality of Languages

Course Number: LIT 318

CRN Number: 10391

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Thomas Wild

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

Crosslists:

German Studies; Human Rights; Philosophy

Race and Real Estate

Professor: Peter L'Official  

Course Number: LIT 328

CRN Number: 10387

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

Solidarity with the Nonhuman: Poetry as Coexistence

Professor: Cole Heinowitz  

Course Number: LIT 3330

CRN Number: 10396

Class cap: 17

Credits: 4

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

Crosslists: Human Rights

Radical Reading: Nganang's Historical Fiction

Course Number: LIT 369

CRN Number: 10388

Class cap: 14

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ursula Embola

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Human Rights

Human Rights and the Middle East

Course Number: MES 210

CRN Number: 10292

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

Professor:

Ziad Abu-Rish

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Crosslists:

Human Rights