91792

HR 120 Human Rights Law & Practice

Peter Rosenblum

. T . Th .

1:30 – 2:50 pm

OLIN 204

SSCI

(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

91635

HR 234 Defining the Human

Robert Weston

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 201

HUM

Cross-listed: Anthropology, 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 not human—a process of exclusion that produces various categories of otherness as non-human, or even inhuman. In this course, students engage with a range of theoretical discussions that attempt to situate the human being vis-à-vis its “other,” traditionally as a kind of intermediary being, poised uncomfortably between animality, on the one hand, and divinity, on the other. Readings may include: Greco Roman & Judeo-Christian conceptions of the human (Aristotle, Paul, Augustine Luther); 17^th-and 18^th-century theories of “human nature” (e.g., Hobbes, Larochefoucauld, Mandeville, LaMettrie, Condillac, Rousseau, Herder, Kant, Schiller); 19^th century Social Darwinism (Spencer) and Philosophy (Marx, Nietzsche); contemporary socio-biology (Wilson, et. Al.); Philosophical Anthropology (Teilhard, Bergson, Bataille, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Scheler, Uexküll, Plessner, Gehlen) and Post-structuralism (Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault). Class size: 22

91667

HR / HIST 2702 Liberty, National Rights & Human Rights

Gregory Moynahan

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

Cross-listed: Global &Int’l Studies; Human Rights (core course); Science, Technology &Society 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. Class size: 22

91691

HR / PS 231 Humanitarian Military Intervtn

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 204

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights (core course) When should states use military force to alleviate human suffering?  Does the need to intervene to stop human rights violations outweigh the right of states to maintain control over territory? The international states system is built upon the principles of sovereignty and nonintervention. Yet over the past two decades human rights have emerged as an increasingly accepted justification legitimizing the use of force.  This apparent tension between the respect for state sovereignty and the inevitable violations that result from the use of military force for humanitarian purposes is at the center of the debate over human rights in the field of international relations. This course explores the dilemmas and controversies surrounding the use of force for humanitarian purposes. The first part examines the major ethical, political and strategic arguments for and against humanitarian military intervention. The second part focuses on specific instances where states undertook, or failed to undertake, a humanitarian military intervention (for example, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sudan, Libya and Syria, among others). Through an examination of particular case studies, we will better understand why the international community has such an inconsistent record of stopping humanitarian crises and what the limitations and possibilities of human rights are in international politics. Class size: 20

91630

ANTH 213 Anthropology of Medicine

Diana Brown

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 201

SSCI/DIFF

91632

ANTH 256 Race and Ethnicity in Brazil

Mario Bick

. T . Th .

10:10 – 11:30 am

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

91633

ANTH 288 Anthropology of the Modern Middle East

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

91637

ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory

Yuka Suzuki

. T . . .

10:10 – 12:30 pm

OLIN 310

HUM/DIFF

91703

ARTH / PHOT 213 Photography and the Human Condition

Laurie Dahlberg

. . W . F

11:50 am -1:10 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

91701

ARTH 375 Mexican Muralism

Susan Aberth

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

91850

CMSC 119 (De-)Coding the Drone

Keith O’Hara

. T . Th .

10:10 – 12:10 pm

RKC 100

MATC

91653

ECON 331 International Migration

Aniruddha Mitra

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 101

SSCI

91806

FILM 361 Experimental Ethnography

Jacqueline Goss

M . . . .

1:30 -4:30 pm

AVERY 217

PART

91662

HIST 112 Three Cities: A History of Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg

Drew Thompson

. T . Th .

10:10 – 11:30 am

ALBEE 106

HIST

91657

HIST 130 Origins of American Citizen

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 204

HIST

91659

HIST 185 The Making of the Modern Middle East

Omar Cheta

M . W . .

10:10 – 11:30 am

ASP 302

HIST/DIFF

91938

HIST 2255 Law in the Middle East: From Ottoman Edicts to Contemporary Human Rights

Omar Cheta

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

HEG 201

HIST

91672

HIST 2314 Colonial English America

Christian Crouch

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 203

HIST

91665

HIST 242 20^th Century Russia: Communism-Nationalism

Gennady Shkliarevsky

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 205

HIST

91667

HIST 2702 Liberty, National Rights & Human Rights

Gregory Moynahan

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

91668

HIST 279 The Other Europe

Gennady Shkliarevsky

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLINLC 208

HIST

91674

HIST / AFR 310 Captivity and Law

Tabetha Ewing

. . . Th .

4:40 -7:00 pm

OLIN 101

HIST

91636

HIST 3103 Political Ritual in the Modern World

Robert Culp

M . . . .

1:00 -3:20 pm

ASP 302

HIST/DIFF

91676

HIST 3148 Reading the Postcolonial in African History

Drew Thompson

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 303

HIST

91982

HUM 218 Stalin and Power

Jonathan Brent

. . . . F

3:00 – 5:20 pm

OLIN 202

HUM

91835

HUM 332 Performing Arendt

Robert Woodruff

M . . . . . . W . .

3:00 -6:00 pm 11:50 -1:50 pm

FISH

PART

91535

LIT 2201 Imagining the Past: Medieval Crusading Literature and the Post-Medieval World

Marisa Libbon

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 305

ELIT

91536

LIT 2202 Ecstasy, Hysteria, Obsession: Literature & the Extreme

Francine Prose

. . . . F

1:30 -3:50 pm

OLIN 201

ELIT

91545

LIT 3228 Cosmopolitanism, Secularism, and Modernity in North African Fiction

Nuruddin Farah

. T . . .

3:10 -5:30 pm

OLINLC 208

FLLC

91782

PHIL 251 Ethical Theory

Jay Elliott

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 306

HUM

91685

PHIL 326 The Ethics of Consent

Alan Sussman

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

HEG 200

HUM

91688

PS 104 International Relations

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 205

SSCI

91689

PS 109 Political Economy

Sanjib Baruah

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 305

SSCI

91691

PS 231 Humanitarian Military Intervtn

Michelle Murray

M . W . .

10:10 – 11:30 am

OLIN 204

SSCI

91693

PS 249 War, Sovereignty, and the Subject of International Politics

Christopher McIntosh

M . W . .

10:10 – 11:30 am

HEG 201

SSCI

91699

PS 334 Politics of Globalization

Sanjib Baruah

. T . . .

10:10 – 12:30 pm

OLIN 305

SSCI

91698

PS 363 Ethics & International Affairs

Christopher McIntosh

. T . . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

HEG 300

SSCI

91696

PS 368 Promoting Democracy Abroad

Omar Encarnacion

. T . . .

3:10 – 5:30 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

91687

PS 420 Hannah Arendt Seminar: The Educated Citizen

Roger Berkowitz

. T . . .

4:40 -7:00 pm

ARENDT CNTR

HUM

91779

SOC 120 Inequality in America

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 201

SSCI/DIFF

91780

SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods

Yuval Elmelech

. T . Th .

10:10 – 11:30 am

HDRANX 106

MATC

91781

SOC 214 Contemporary Immigration

Joel Perlmann

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 305

SSCI/DIFF

91518

SPAN 220 The Hispanic Presence in US

Melanie Nicholson

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLINLC 210

FLLC/DIFF