91327

HR 101 Introduction to Human Rights

Thomas Keenan

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 111

HUM/DIFF

Cross-listed: GIS, SRE (Core course) An intensive introduction to contemporary discussions of human rights in a broad context. The course mixes a basic historical and theoretical investigation of these contested categories, 'human' and 'right,' with some difficult examples of the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of claims made in these terms. What are humans and what count as rights, if any? We will ask about the foundations of rights claims; about legal, political, non-violent and violent ways of advancing, defending and enforcing them; about the documents and institutions of the human rights movement; and about the questionable 'reality' of human rights in our world. Is there such a thing as 'our' world? The answers are not obvious. They are most complicated when we are talking, as we will for most of the semester, about torture (from the ancient world to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib), so-called humanitarian intervention (from Somalia and Bosnia to Iraq and Darfur), truth commissions and war crimes tribunals (Milosevic, Hussein, South Africa, Peru), testimony and information (from Shoah to the CNN effect) and the challenges to human rights orthodoxy posed by terrorism and the wars against it. Using The Face of Human Rights (Walter Kalin) as our primary text, along with work in philosophy, history, literature, politics, and with the contemporary news flow, we will examine some tricky cases and troubled places, among them our own. This course addresses Rethinking Difference by telling the story of people excluded from access to rights because they are "different" and how they have managed (if they have) to challenge that exclusion by making demands for justice. It also tries to understand this dynamic of difference and universality, exclusion and transformation, theoretically. 

91494

HR 315 War of Heroes – War of Machines: Atrocity, Total War and the Epic Imagination

Mark Danner

. T . . .

1:30 – 3:50 pm

RKC 122

ELIT

Cross-listed: Classics, Literature We live in an age of war by machine, of laser-guided bombs and robotic drones and improvised explosive devices. For nearly two centuries war has been predominantly industrial, mechanical, impersonal. Yet our ideas of war - the ethical and aesthetic penumbra that has always surrounded warfare - are rooted in glory. They descend from the epic imagination, centered as it is on the hero testing his power and his life against his nemesis and against fate. In this seminar we will trace the roots of the heroic imagination back to its beginnings in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, follow its development and its questioning in classical Greece and Rome and its critique in the bastard epics of the Middle Ages, and examine its
deterioration and rejection in the modern age of war by machine. Our lodestar throughout will be the rise of total war and its accompanying ideas of mercy, human rights and group violence bounded by law - and the clash of these ideas with our lingering notion of war as the ultimate realm of heroic deeds. Readings will be drawn from The Battle of Megiddo, Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atra-Hasis, The Illiad, Aeschylus and Euripides, the Mahabarata, Arrian and Plutarch, The Aeneid, and The Song of Roland, as well as Graves, Remarque, Lindqvist and Filkins.

91200

HIST 2702 Liberty, National Rights, and Human Rights

Gregory Moynahan

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

Olin 203

HIST

Cross-listed: GIS, Human Rights (core course), STS The history of 'human rights' can formally be said to have come into existence only with the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the successor conventions that ultimately formed the International Bill of Human Rights. Both the declaration and its later instantiations were created in reaction to the problems of genocide and mass population transfers (and consequent loss of citizenship) during the Second World War. This course will begin by examining the fatal gaps in the previous system of nationally instantiated “universal” rights as they were initially developed in Europe and selectively applied to or adopted by its colonies. Beginning with the pursuit of liberties in peasant communes and early modern law, we will examine the creation of national rights from the treaty of Westphalia through the British, American, and French revolutions, and the relation of these rights to colonial administration. The post-war institutions of human rights provided a new justification for a universal and 'open' standard of laws and fealty (often compared to imperial Rome) and ultimately provided new legitimation for the selective intervention of stronger powers in the affairs of weaker political or legal entities. By focusing on case studies, particularly those from the contrasting cases of the European Union and United States, the relation of human rights to hegemonic power will be examined in detail. The course will also examine the relation of politics to the infrastructures that made both widespread human rights infractions and their curtailment possible. The role of media (telegraph, radio, etc.), systems of organization (passports, criminal archives) and police (secret police, international monitors) will be considered as modern transnational phenomenon that are intimately connected with the development and fate of enforcing human rights norms. The final section of the course will look at the role of international NGO's in both monitoring human rights and criticizing the state of existing human rights law, particularly in their criticism of human rights as a product of a particular north Atlantic perspective and set of biases.

91246

SPAN 240 Testimonial Literature

Nicole Caso

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC/DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course); LAIS This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically with texts that serve as a public forum for voices often silenced in the past. Students will also learn about the broader context of the hemisphere's history through the particular experiences of women from Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina, Mexico, and the U.S.-Latino community, including Rigoberta Menchú, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, and Cherríe Moraga. We will read testimonial accounts documenting the priorities and concerns of women who have been marginalized for reasons of poverty, ethnic difference, political ideologies, or sexual preference. The semester will be devoted to analyzing the form in which their memories are represented textually, and to the discussion of the historical circumstances that have led to their marginalization. Some of the central questions that will organize our discussions are: how to represent memories of violence and pain? What are the ultimate effects of mediations of the written word, translations to hegemonic languages, and the interventions of well-intentioned intellectuals? How best to use writing as a mechanism to trace a space for dignity and "difference"? We will integrate films that portray the issues and time-periods documented in the diaries and testimonial narratives to be read - including "Men With Guns", "El Norte," "Historia oficial," and "Rojo amanecer." Conducted in English.

91217

ANTH 213 Anthropology of Medicine

Diana Brown

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 202

SSCI/DIFF

91134

ANTH 275 Post-Apartheid National Imaginaries

Yuka Suzuki

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin 204

SSCI/DIFF

91786

ANTH 338 Global Flows

Nadia Latif

. T . . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

Olin 301

SSCI/DIFF

91219

ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory

Laura Kunreuther

. T . . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

Olin 310

HUM/DIFF

91298

ARTH 253 Africa in the Americas

Susan Aberth

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 102

AART

91297

ARTH 259 The Once and Future History of Sustainable Urbanism

Noah Chasin

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 102

AART

91302

ARTH 319 Being Animal, Becoming Human: Representing the Human-Animal Boundary in Early Modern Europe

Susan Merriam

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

91116

ECON 252 Law and Economics

Tsu-Yu Tsao

. T . Th .

4:40 -6:00 pm

Olin 204

SSCI

91201

HIST 141 A Haunted Union: 20^th Century Germany and the Unification of Europe

Gregory Moynahan

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin 201

HIST

91492

HIST 185 The Modern Middle East: The End of Empire, Colonialism, Revolution, and the Fate of Modern Nation-States

Jennifer Derr

. T . Th .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

ASP 302

HIST/DIFF

91208

HIST 213 Immigration & American Society: Colonial Times to the 1960s

Joel Perlmann

. T . Th .

3:10 – 4:30 pm

Olin 304

HIST/DIFF

91512

HIST 2357 Jerusalem: History, Theology, and Contemporary Politics

Mustafa Abu Sway

. T . Th

11:50 – 1:10 pm

Olin 202

HIST

91206

HIST 280A American Environmental History I

Mark Lytle

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin 205

HIST

91277

LIT 2034 Sympathy & Its Discontents

Cole Heinowitz

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin L. C. 210

ELIT

91224

LIT 2172 The Politics and Practice of Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa

Dina Ramadan

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin 309

FLLC

91260

LIT 2176 The Revenge Tragedy

Lianne Habinek

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

Olin 201

ELIT

91399

LIT 2178 Literary Networks and New Writing out of Africa 2000-2008

Binyavanga Wainaina

M . W . .

10:10 – 11:30 am

Olin 302

ELIT

91400

LIT 225 Strange Books and the Human Condition

Francine Prose

. . . . F

1:30 -3:50 pm

Olin 203

ELIT

91104

LIT 3191 Islam & Modernity: Tahar Ben Jelloun and Nuruddin Farah

Norman Manea

. T . . .

1:30 –3:50 pm

OLIN 101

ELIT

91326

LIT 3206 Evidence

Thomas Keenan

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

Olin 309

HUM

91103

LIT 358 Exile and Estrangement

Norman Manea

M . . . .

1:30 –3:50 pm

OLIN 101

ELIT

91081

PHIL 340 Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberty

Alan Sussman

M . . . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

ASP 302

HUM

91096

PS 104 International Relations

Michelle Murray

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 201

SSCI

91301

PS 167 Foundations of the Law

Roger Berkowitz

. . W . F

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 101

SSCI

91101

PS 225 West European Politics and Society

Elaine Thomas

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 203

SSCI/DIFF

91120

PS 239 United Nations and Model UN

Jonathan Becker

. . . . F

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 202

SSCI

91514

PS 247 American Foreign Policy Traditions I

Walter Russell Mead

. . W . F

11:50 – 1:10pm

RKC 102

HIST

91097

PS 254 Security & International Politics

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin 202

SSCI

91105

PS 256 Politics and News Media

Jonathan Becker

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

Olin 205

SSCI

91211

PS 280 Nations, States, and Nationalism

Sanjib Baruah

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin 310

SSCI

91100

PS 311 Immigration & Citizenship

Elaine Thomas

M . . . .

4:40 -7:00 pm

Olin 303

SSCI/DIFF

91516

PS 365 God’s Country? Foreign Policy and Religion in the United States

Walter Russell Mead

. . . Th .

1:30 – 3:50 pm

Olin 308

SSCI/DIFF

91091

PS 420 Hannah Arendt Seminar

Roger Berkowitz

. T . . .

4:40 -7:00 pm

Dubois

HUM

91128

REL 246 Gender and Islam

Mairaj Syed

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin 306

HUM/DIFF

91513

REL 287 Contemporary Islamic Movements

Mustafa Abu Sway

M . W . .

11:50 – 1:10 pm

RKC 115

HIST

91511

SST 255 Exile: Internal and External

Kati Marton

M . . .

8:00 – 10:00 am

HDR 302

SSCI

91058

SOC 120 Inequality in America

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin 203

SSCI/DIFF

91059

SOC 203 The History of Sociological Thought

Michael Donnelly

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin 301

SSCI

91060	SOC 205 Intro to Research Methods	Yuval Elmelech	. T . Th .	1:30 -2:50 pm	Olin 202 / HDRANX 106	MATC
91062	SOC 304 Modern Sociological Theory	Michael Donnelly	M . W . .	3:10 -4:30 pm	Olin 304	SSCI

91246

SPAN 240 Testimonial Literature

Nicole Caso

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC/DIFF