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91516 |
HR
101 Introduction to Human Rights |
Thomas Keenan |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l
Studies;
(HR 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 'rights,'
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. We will try to
find them by exploring, among other things, the French and American
revolutions, the 'decline of the nation-state' (Arendt), humanitarian
intervention (medical and military), public space and democracy, testimony and
information (from Shoah to the CNN effect), war crimes and the concept of the
civilian, 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. Class
size: 25
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91967 |
HR
226 Women’s Rights, Human Rights |
Robert Weston |
. T . Th . |
11:50am – 1:10 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
SSCI/diff |
Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies (core
course) This course provides students with a broad
overview of women’s struggles for liberation from the global patterns of masculine
domination. Following a brief overview of first wave feminism, the bulk of the
course engages students with second wave feminism—including, the critical
appropriations and contestations of marxism,
structuralism & psychoanalysis characteristic of post '68 feminist
theory—post-structuralist theories of sexual
difference, écriture féminine,
70s debates surrounding the NOW & ERA movements, and turning at the end of
the course to the issues of race & class at the center of third wave
feminism. While serving as a survey of the major developments in feminist
theoretical discourse, the course is framed from a global human rights
perspective, always mindful of issues ranging from suffrage, property rights
& Equal Pay, to forced marriage, reproductive rights & maternal
mortality, female genital mutilation, sex-trafficking, & prostitution, to
coeducation, Lesbian, & Transgender rights. Readings may include texts
ranging from Wollstonecraft, Stopes & Fuller, to
Beauvoir, Friedan, Solanas, Koedt,
Dworkin, Duggan, MacKinnon, & Allison (the
"Feminist Sex Wars"), to Rubin, Wittig, De Lauretis,
Traub, Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous, Butler, Walker,
Baumgardner, Richards, Moraga, Andalzùa,
et al. Class size: 20
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91990 |
HR
229 Human Rights AND DEMOCRACY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA |
Dmitry Dubrovsky |
. T . Th . |
11:50am – 1:10 pm |
HEG 204 |
SSCI |
Human rights in contemporary Russia is a contested category. In the
early 1990s political elites were very skeptical about these words, while at
the same time they were widely used among the general population. Today it
almost the reverse: it has become quite
popular among political elites to explain foreign and domestic politics in
terms of human rights, but at the same time human rights and the human rights
movement are both in serious crises on the ground. This course will seek to understand how and
why human rights have fallen off the popular agenda in Russia today. We will
explore a set of questions in the history of the late Soviet Union and Russia,
investigate debates between human rights activists and liberal reformers, and
study in depth the tragedy of the 90s, where human rights were sacrificed for
stability and the "nostalgic" modernization of the country We will
also explore the politics and human rights in the post-Soviet space, including
Crimea. Class size: 18
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91950 |
HR 245
Humanism and Antihumanism in 20th century french
thought |
Eric Trudel |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm - 4:30 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HUM |
Cross-listed: French Studies (HR core course) What is the legacy of humanism and its very
long tradition in twentieth-century French thought? So strong was once the
belief in its values that humanism came to be equated, in France, with
republicanism and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. And yet, the
humanists’ affirmation of the centrality of man – the “measure of all things”
–, their faith in the dignity of man, their commitment to reason, progress and
universal truth came under severe attack throughout the century, under the
influence of Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger, to be ultimately denounced as
nothing more than a construct of “petit bourgeois” ideology. Althusser praised Marx for having reduced to ashes the
“myth” of man, Foucault celebrated its disappearances “like a face drawn in the
sand at the edge of the sea”, and Derrida painstakingly undermined the
metaphysical foundation of subjectivity. What happens to ethics and politics
when what appears to be its very foundation is withdrawn? Does antihumanism signal the end of responsibility? This course surveys the ongoing, contentious
and often violent debate between humanism and antihumanism
in France throughout the 20th century. Our goal will be to understand, for
instance, how Sartre, who ferociously mocked humanism in the 1930s
came to declare, after the war, that Existentialism is a Humanism; to
grasp why Simone de Beauvoir could plead for an Ethics of Ambiguity
while Camus condemned all form of revolutionary action, even when conducted in
the name of justice. Along the way, we will examine how this debate is tied to
the understanding of the role of the intellectual, and issues of colonialism,
feminism, political activism and environmentalism. Texts include fictions and
essays by Antelme, Bataille,
de Beauvoir, Benda, Bergson, Camus, Deleuze, Derrida,
Fanon, Ferry, Foucault, Irigaray, Lévinas,
Malraux, Merleau-Ponty, Mounier,
Nizan, Rancière, Ricœur, Sartre, Todorov, Weil and
others. Class size: 22
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91639 |
LIT / HR 2509 Telling Stories about Rights |
Nuruddin Farah |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 201 |
ELIT/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Human Rights (core course) What difference can fiction make in struggles
for rights and justice? And what can this effort to represent injustice,
suffering, or resistance tell us about about fiction
and literature? This course will focus on a wide range of fictions, from a variety of
writers with different backgrounds, that
tell unusual stories about the rights of
individuals and communities to justice. We will read novels addressing
human migration, injustices committed in the name of the state against a minority, and the
harsh conditions under which some
communities operate as part of their survival strategy, among other topics. We will look at the ways in which
literary forms can allow universalizing claims to be made, exploring how
racism, disenfranchisement, poverty, and lack of access to education and health care, for instance, can affect the
dignity of all humans. Readings may
include: Chronicles of a Death Foretold
by Garcia Marquez; Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson; Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg; Our Nig by
Harriet Wilson; Balzac & the Chinese
Seamstress by Sijai Dai; Winter is in the Blood by James Welch ; The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; Wolves of
the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, and Bound to Violence by Yambo
Ouleguem. We will also watch a number of films based on
the novels (including Chronicles, Smilla's Sense, Balzac, Snow Falling), and The First Grader (2001, on the right to
education in Kenya).
Class size: 22
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91961 |
HR 324 COLLECTIVITY, DIFFERENCE, AND
POLITICS |
Ann Seaton |
. T. . . |
3:10 pm-5:30 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities From Surrealism to the Black Panthers,
collectives have intervened in art, politics, and public space. The
“collective” model challenges the model of the artist as individual genius/producer,
and even the notion of the work itself. Is a collective a person?
Collective activity can seem to simulate Deleuzian
theory in practice; collectives evoke aesthetic, economic, and ontological
crises. Collective activity has intensified in the last few decades—amidst
social media and the global rise in economic stratification. Collective
practices have been particularly important for black, female, and LGBTQ
subjects. Such interventions may be connected to discussions around HIV/AIDS,
anti-racism, queer/trans identities, and/or critiques of the art world itself.
The Combahee River Collective, Gran Fury, the South African Gugulective,
the British Otolith Group, the Haitian Ghetto
Biennale, and the global/NYC-based How Do You Say Yam in African form a partial
list. We will consider the creative works produced by collectives in
juxtaposition with Deleuze, Adrian Piper, Clement
Greenberg, Audre Lorde, and Angela Davis. We will
also read recent texts by Huey Copeland, Tavia Nyong'o, Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, George Lewis, and Claire Tancon.
Written work will include response papers and a mid-term essay. Students will
also work in 3-5 person teams that will invent and propose “collectives.” Each
collective will write a manifesto and design a proposal for a group exhibit.
Prospective students should submit a page of interest to [email protected]. Class
size: 15
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91958 |
HR
338 Human Rights and the Global Economy |
Peter Rosenblum / Ashwini Sukthankar |
. . . . F |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Economics, Global
& Int’l Studies
The modern human
rights movement emerged at the end of the Cold War with a focus on states and
an arsenal appropriate 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 – forced advocates to
rethink their focus on the state and to develop new tactics for confronting
major economic actors. This class will
explore the complicated history of the global corporation in relation to the
rights of workers and citizens in the societies where they operate. The course traces the evolution of these
relationships, with case studies on the British East India Company, the
economic legacy of slave labor in American Universities, the Indian Swaraj campaign, United Fruit Company, the Chilean copper
nationalization and the South African divestment campaign. The second half of the class is devoted to
the rise of economic activism using contemporary human rights tactics. 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
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91882 |
HR
339 Terror, Torture, Drones: trapped in the emergency state |
Mark Danner |
M . . . . |
3:10 pm -5:30 pm |
OLIN 308 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Global & Int’l
Studies
Those hijacked jet
liners on September 11, 2001 brought with them not only death and destruction
on an unprecedented scale but a darker era in American foreign policy. The
United States invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and launched an
aggressive worldwide campaign to root out Al Qaeda, mostly fought, in Dick
Cheney's phrase, "on the dark side." Terror gave way to
counter-terror, much of it in the hands of elite special operations forces and
intelligence officers who made increasing use, as President Bush gave way to
President Obama, of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Though the elements of
this new "dark-side war," particularly its use of torture and drones,
seemed new in US history, in fact it was built on top of a long tradition,
dated back to the National Security Act of 1947, of a powerful and untouchable
"emergency state." In this seminar we will explore the roots of that
emergency state and trace its rise and elaboration during the Cold War, then
study its final flowering in the months and years after September 11. As we
explore we will ponder the ways by which our country, seventy years after World
War II and a dozen after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington,
might free itself from the grip of permanent emergency -- and construct a
different, democratic foreign policy. Class size: 18
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91792 |
HR / SST 346 Studies in Obedience: THE MAN AND THE EXPERIMENT THAT SHOCKED
THE WORLD – STANLEY MILGRAM AT YALE |
Stuart Levine |
M . . . . |
3:00 pm -6:00 pm |
Arendt Center |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Human Rights It has now been more than fifty years since
the original work of Stanley Milgram at Yale University demonstrated the
remarkable and widely unpredicted finding
that large numbers of individuals in multiple samples of American men and women
studied were willing to "punish" another person when ordered to do so
by an experimenter; this in the context of a psychology experiment on learning
and memory. The prominence of the
initial work and the continued salience of such study, including the pronounced
ethical considerations and the necessary generalizability to societal and
historical contexts cannot be over-stated.
As recently as five years ago a replication of the
original study with only slight modifications was published (J. Burger, January
2009) and more recent studies reveals that “obedience” is very much prevalent
in our society and in many others as well. Also the ethical debate and ecological
validity controversy have not lessened. But aside from the volume of
investigations the current domain of the "Milgram study” is especially
worthy of continuing interest; this because of historical events in the
intervening years since1960. The seminar
will convey that the continuing study of obedience phenomena is vital for the
betterment of institutions - even in a democratic society - and that social
scientists must find a way to safely and ethically investigate the conditions
that promote destructive obedience and learn the rudiments of how it can be
minimized. This is an upper college seminar.
It is designed for moderated social studies majors and even those from
other divisions of the college, who will require permission of the instructor
to enroll. Criteria for membership are a willingness to read with care and then
with conviction share the results of such reading and study. (The title for this seminar is taken from the
biography of Stanley Milgram authored by Thomas Blass, a professor of social
psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus. Class size: 10
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91643 |
ANTH
261 AnthropOLOgy OF Violence AND Suffering |
Laura Kunreuther |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Asian Studies, Gender
& Sexuality Studies, Global &
Int’l 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. 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
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
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91787 |
HIST
2631 Capitalism and Slavery |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
HIST |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies,
Human Rights (core course),
LAIS 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
|
91460 |
MUS
218 Musical Exoticisms |
Maria Sonevytsky |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
BLM N210 |
HUM/DIFF |
|
91610 |
LIT
2051 Douglass & Du Bois |
Alexandre Benson |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 306 |
ELIT/DIFF |
|
91614 |
LIT
214 Cairo Through its Novels |
Dina Ramadan |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
|
91633 |
LIT
3232 Palestinian LitERATURE
in Translation |
Elizabeth Holt |
M . . . . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
ASP 302 |
FLLC/DIFF |
|
91632 |
LIT
358 Exile & Estrangement Fiction |
Norman Manea |
M . . . . |
3:10 pm -5:30 pm |
OLIN 107 |
ELIT/DIFF |
|
91754 |
SCI
130 Nuclear & ChemICAL Weapons |
Simeen Sattar |
. . W . . |
6:00 pm -7:30 pm |
HEG 102 |
N/A |
|
91561 |
ANTH
331 TOXIC MODERNITIES: AnthroPOLOGY in AND of THE Nuclear Age |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. . . Th . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
Albee 106 |
SSCI |
|
91644 |
ANTH
350 Contemporary Cultural Theory |
Laura Kunreuther |
. T . . . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
OLIN 307 |
HUM/DIFF |
|
91669 |
HIST
190 The Cold War: Enemy/Globalism |
Gennady Shkliarevsky / Mark Lytle |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
RKC 103 |
HIST/DIFF |
|
91677 |
HIST
2127 THE GENEALOGY OF Modern RevolutionS IN THE Middle East |
Omar Cheta |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 309 |
HIST |
|
91675 |
HIST
2237 Radio Africa: Broadcasting History |
Drew Thompson |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
|
91784 |
HIST
2255 Law in the Middle East from ottoman edicts to contemporary
human rights |
Omar Cheta |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 309 |
HIST |
|
91785 |
HIST
2306 Gender AND Sexuality IN Modern China |
Robert Culp |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 202 |
HIST/DIFF |
|
91780 |
HIST
242 20th Century Russia: CommUnIsm AND NatIOnAlIsm |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
|
91781 |
HIST
280A American Environmental Hist I |
Mark Lytle |
. . W . F |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
|
91676 |
HIST
3149 THE HISTORICAL Politics OF Africa's Civil Wars |
Drew Thompson |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
HEG 201 |
HIST |
|
91775 |
PHIL
260 Feminist Philosophy |
Daniel Berthold |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 201 |
HUM/DIFF |
|
91779 |
PS
104 International Relations |
Christopher McIntosh |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI |
|
91791 |
PS
109 Political Economy |
Sanjib Baruah |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
RKC 101 |
SSCI |
|
91980 |
PS 167 QUEST
FOR JUSTICE: FOUNDATION OF LAW |
Roger Berkowitz |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm– 4:30 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
HUM |
|
91815 |
PS
239 United Nations and Model UN |
James Ketterer |
. . . . F |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SSCI |
|
91816 |
PS
280 Nations, States, and Nationalism |
Sanjib Baruah |
M . W . . |
10:10am - 11:30 am |
RKC 100 |
SSCI |
|
91817 |
PS
358 Radical American Democracy |
Roger Berkowitz |
. T . . . |
4:40 pm -7:00 pm |
ARENDT CENTER |
SSCI |
|
91543 |
PS
363 Ethics & International Affairs |
Christopher McIntosh |
. T . . . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
OLIN 310 |
SSCI |
|
91818 |
PS
368 Promoting Democracy Abroad |
Omar Encarnacion |
. T . . . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
ASP 302 |
SSCI |
|
91803 |
SOC
120 Inequality in America |
Yuval Elmelech |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 204 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91809 |
SOC
138 Introduction to Urban Sociology |
Peter Klein |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SSCI |
|
91802 |
SOC
205 Introduction to Research Methods |
Yuval Elmelech |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
HDRANX 106 |
MATC |
|
91810 |
SOC
269 Globalization, Social Conflict, and Citizenship |
Peter Klein |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI |
|
91819 |
SOC
246 A CHANGING AMERICAN RACIAL ORDER? Race, Ethnicity &
Assimilation |
Joel Perlmann |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 101 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91801 |
SOC
267 Media, Power & Social Change |
Sarah Egan |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 102 |
SSCI |
|
91808 |
SOC
346 Governing the Self |
Allison
McKim |
. . . Th . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
SSCI |
|
91858 |
THTR
343 Latino Theater and Performance |
Jorge Cortinas |
. . W . . |
1:30 pm -4:30 pm |
FISH CONF |
PART/DIFF |