91727

HR 120 Human Rights Law and Practice

Peter Rosenblum

. . W . F

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & Intl Studies (Human Rights core course) An intensive introduction to human rights law and practice. The course combines an inquiry into the historical and theoretical underpinnings of human rights with case studies that introduce the issues, actors, institutions and laws that constitute the contemporary practice of human rights. In the last decades, human rights has come to occupy a powerful space in international law, political rhetoric, activism and the news cycle. Where did that come from? When and why did it come about? What other options did it displace? In trying to find the answers, we will explore the writing of historians, theorists and practitioners, with special attention to the disagreements and tensions among them that help to elucidate the range of possibilities. The case studies will give us the opportunity to see how the issues play out, and where we situate ourselves in the process. Finally, we will learn a little bit of law, but we will do it in the context of people struggling typically, against, states to assert and extend their rights. Class size: 22

 

91342

ANTH 261 Anthropology of Violence

and Suffering

Laura Kunreuther

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 205

HUM/DIFF

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Global & Intl Studies, Human Rights (core course), Science, Technology & Society 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. Anthropologys 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 education, 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 as a means of producing and consolidating social and political power, and exerting political control. Second, we will look at forms of violence that have generated questions about universal rights of humanity versus culturally specific practices, such as widow burning in India and female genital mutilation in postcolonial Africa. In these examples, we explore gendered dimensions in the experience of violence among perpetrators, victims, and survivors. 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. Readings will range from theoretical texts, anthropological ethnographies, as well as popular representations of violence in the media and film. Class size: 22

 

91323

HR / HIST 2631 Capitalism and Slavery

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights (core course) Scholars have argued that there is an intimate relationship between the contemporary wealth of the developed world and the money generated through four hundred years of chattel slavery in the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade. Is there something essential that links capitalism, even liberal democratic capitalism, to slavery? How have struggles against slavery and for freedom and rights, dealt with this connection? This course will investigate the development of this linkage, studying areas like the gender dynamics of early modern Atlantic slavery, the correlation between coercive political and economic authority, and the financial implications of abolition and emancipation. We will focus on North America and the Caribbean from the early 17th century articulation of slavery through the staggered emancipations of the 19th century. The campaign against the slave trade has been called the first international human rights movement today does human rights discourse simply provide a human face for globalized capitalism, or offer an alternative vision to it? Questions of contemporary reparations, rising colonialism and markets of the nineteenth century, and the 'duty' of the Americas to Africa will also be considered. Readings will include foundational texts on capitalism and a variety of historical approaches to the problem of capitalism within slavery, from economic, cultural, and intellectual perspectives. There are no prerequisites, although HIST 130, 2133, or 263 all serve as introductory backgrounds. Class size: 22

 

91349

HR / LIT 218 Free Speech

Thomas Keenan

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

HEG 106

HUM

Cross-listed: Human Rights (Core Course ) An introduction to debates about freedom of expression. The course will examine the ways in which rights, language, and public space have been linked together in ideas about democracy. What is 'freedom of speech'? Is there a right to say anything? We will investigate who has had this right, where it has come from, and what it has had to do in particular with literature. What powers does speech have, who has the power to speak, and for what? In asking about the status of the speaking human subject, we will ask about the ways in which the subject of rights, and indeed the thought of human rights itself, derives from a 'literary' experience. These questions will be examined, if not answered, across a variety of literary, philosophical, legal and political texts, including case studies and readings in contemporary critical and legal theory. Class size: 22

 

91567

HR 239 Never Again

Ian Buruma

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 101

SSCI

(Core course) Never Again were the words on a sign put up at the main gate of Buchenwald after the camp was liberated in 1945. World War II had been so devastating, especially for civilians, that international efforts had to be made to make sure something similar could never happen again. These efforts had a major impact on international law and our thinking about human rights and national sovereignty. Even though the Holocaust did not yet play the central role in public discourse that it would do some decades later, genocide was recognized in 1945 as such a heinous crime that new conventions and laws had to be devised. This course will include the histories of the genocide convention, the United Nations charter, and war crime tribunals. We will also discuss the consequences of the post-World War II human rights regime. Such topics as the new UN doctrine of right to protect will be dealt with in depth. To understand the current debates on intervention by outside powers in the Middle East and other areas threatened with serious domestic violence, it is important to know the history that lies lies behind those debates. That will be the main focus of the course. Class size: 20

 

91350

HR 314 Humanitarian Action

Thomas Keenan

. T . . .

3:10 -5:30 pm

OLIN 309

HUM

This seminar will explore the practices and conceptualization of humanitarian action, from the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863 to the contemporary landscape of non-governmental relief organizations. We will examine some central ideas -- neutrality, emergency, crisis, testimony, refugee, victim -- and pay particular attention to the dilemmas in which practitioners have found themselves caught (in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya, Darfur, and elsewhere). We will look at turning points in the history of the movement, from Solferino to Live Aid to Kosovo, and examine how the charitable action of concerned individuals became a multi-billion-dollar industry directed by aid professionals and famine experts. What sort of politics is non-governmental politics, or is it not a politics but an ethic pure and simple? When does the provision of relief turn into the governance of populations? We will investigate the role of celebrities and the media in the presentation of crises, the militarization of humanitarianism in the post-Cold War, and the doctrine of "the responsibility to protect," all the while trying not to forget about the people who remain in need of protection and assistance.

Class size: 18

 

91728

HR 338 Human Rights in the Global Economy

Peter Rosenblum /

Ashwini Sukthankar

. . . Th .

10:10 12:30 pm

RKC 200

SSCI

Cross-listed: Economics, Global & Intl Studies The modern human rights movement emerged at the end of the Cold War with a focus on states and an arsenal appropriate for responding to civil and political repression. Economic and social rights were acknowledged in law, but overlooked or disdained in practice. The transformation of the global economy since the end of the Cold War including the increased importance of transnational trade, investment and global corporations has resulted in new awareness and new tactics. We will explore the complicated history of human rights and its relationship to economic activism; then we will focus on the often surprising developments of the past decade. We will look at current work that addresses particular sectors (e.g., consumer goods, natural resource extraction, and agriculture), regions (e.g., Africa) and issues (e.g., child labor, women's empowerment). Class size: 15

 

91729

HR 342 Portraits of Evil:

Dictator, Autocrat, Caudillo

Mark Danner

. T . . .

1:30 3:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

HUM

Cross-listed: Global & Intl Studies, Literature Even today, in great swaths of our world, politics revolves around the power of "the Big Man." Dictator, Supreme Leader, Party Boss, Caudillo: power is embodied, literally, in the person of one man and emanates from him. In this seminar, we will undertake a study of how political power, and especially personalized power, works and how powerful politicians and autocrats have been analyzed and depicted in literature. Our inquiry will range through history and across national traditions, from Plutarch's and Suetonius' Julius Caesar to Trollope's Prime Minister, from Asturias'el Senor Presidente to Vargas Llosas' Trujillo. We will be reading, among others, works by Graves, Trollope, Lourie, Malaparte, Mahfouz, Carpentier, Penn Warren, Nabokov, Valenzuela, El Saadawi, Bolano and Garcia Marquez - and, perhaps, a few non-fiction memoirs as well.

Class size: 15

 

91393

PS 251 Human Rights in Asia

Ken Haig

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLINLC 120

SSCI/DIFF

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Human Rights (core course) This course challenges assumptions about cultural relativism by comparing and contrasting the different ways in which societies in East, Southeast, and South Asia have confronted increasing social diversification and changing norms about class, gender, ethnic, and religious minorities. In addition to comparing the varied extent to which human rights protections have been incorporated into domestic legal institutions, we will also consider efforts to build regional and trans-national dialogue on these issues. Though the course is broadly concerned with making cross-national comparisons, students will be encouraged to pursue their own thematic or country-specific interests in their research papers. Class size: 22

 

91342

ANTH 261 Anthropology of Violence

and Suffering

Laura Kunreuther

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 205

HUM/DIFF

 

91345

ANTH 337 Cultural Politics of Animals

Yuka Suzuki

. . W . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

RKC 200

SSCI/DIFF

 

91569

ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory

TBA

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

HEG 201

HUM/DIFF

 

91515

ARTH 247 Photography since 1950

Laurie Dahlberg

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

FISHER ANNE

 

 

91518

ARTH 259 Sustainable Urbanism

Noah Chasin

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 102

AART

 

91360

ECON 221 Economic Development

Sanjaya DeSilva

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30 am

ALBEE 106

SSCI

 

91722

HIST 141 A Haunted Union:

Twentieth-Century Germany and the

Unifications of Europe

 

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 115

HIST

 

91745

HIST 185 History of the Modern Middle East

Charles Anderson

. T . Th .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

HEG 106

HIST

 

91746

HIST 2018 The State and Social Movements in the Middle East in the 20th Century

Charles Anderson

. T . Th .

3:10 4:30 pm

RKC 102

HIST/DIFF

 

91544

HIST / HUM 206 Global Europe 

 

Gregory Moynahan / Joseph Luzzi

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 102

FLCL

 

91323

HIST 2631 Capitalism and Slavery

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

 

91327

HIST 2702 Liberty, Rights and

Human Rights

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 115

HIST

 

91337

HIST 279 The Other Europe:East Central Europe after World War II

Gennady Shkliarevsky

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

 

91329

HIST 280A American Environmental

History I

Mark Lytle

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 201

HIST

 

91330

HIST 324 Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation

In American Thought

Joel Perlmann

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 101

HIST/DIFF

 

91325

HIST 327 The French Revolution

Alice Stroup

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 308

 

 

91771

LIT 2193 Raised by Wolves: Literary Wild Children and the Limits of the Human

Alex Benson

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 305

ELIT

 

91358

LIT 2204 World Literature & the CIA

Elizabeth Holt

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 308

FLLC

 

91281

LIT 2236 Reading Resistance and

Revolution in the Arab World

Dina Ramadan

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 201

FLLC

 

91262

LIT 2243 How to Use the Language

Francine Prose

. . . . F

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT

 

91223

LIT 2603 Scholasticism vs. Humanism

Karen Sullivan

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

ASP 302

ELIT

 

91385

PHIL 245 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud

Ruth Zisman

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 301

HUM

 

91378

PHIL 260 Feminist Philosophy

Daniel Berthold

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

HEG 201

HUM/DIFF

 

91386

PHIL 340 Constitutional Law:

Rights and Liberties

Alan Sussman

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

RKC 111

HUM

 

91201

PS 104 International Relations

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 103

SSCI

 

91566

PS 222 Democracy in Latin America

Omar Encarnacion

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

 

91765

PS 239 The United Nations and Model U.N.

Jonathan Becker

. . . . F

1:30 2:50 pm

OLIN 201

SSCI

 

91202

PS 254 Security & International Politics

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 202

SSCI

 

91406

PS 264 The US and the Modern Middle East

Jonny Cristol

M . . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLINLC 210

SSCI

 

91391

PS 288 Water, Power & Politics

Sanjib Baruah

M . W . .

8:30 -9:50 am

OLIN 205

SSCI

 

91698

PS 335 The Politics of Human Rights

Omar Encarnacion

M . . . .

3:10 -5:30 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

 

91408

PS 365 Gods Country? Foreign Policy

and Religion in the United States

Walter Mead

. . . Th .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 306

SSCI/DIFF

 

91389

PS 420 Hannah Arendt Center Seminar

Roger Berkowitz

. T . . .

4:40 -7:00 pm

Arendt Cntr.

HUM

 

91308

PSY 337 The Psychology of Prejudice

and Stereotyping

Kristin Lane

. . W . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

OLIN 307

SSCI/DIFF

 

91397

REL 262 Islamic Ethics in Medieval

and Modern Society

Mairaj Syed

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 309

HUM/DIFF

 

91294

SOC 120 Inequality in America

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

 

91293

SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

HDRANX 106

MATC

 

91718

SOC 213 Sociological Theory

Allison McKim

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 204

SSCI

 

91330

SOC / HIST 324 Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation In American Thought

Joel Perlmann

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 101

HIST/DIFF

 

91300

SOC 352 Gender and Deviance

Allison McKim

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI/DIFF