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91758 |
LIT 218 Free Speech |
Thomas Keenan |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 201 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Human Rights
(core course) An introduction to debates about freedom of expression.
What is 'freedom of speech'? Is there a right to say anything? Why? We will
investigate who has had this right, where it has come from, and what it has had
to do in particular with literature. and the arts. What powers does speech have,
who has the power to speak, and for what? Debates about censorship, hate
speech, the First Amendment and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights will be obvious starting points, but we will also explore some
less obvious questions: about faith and the secular, confession and torture,
surveillance, the emergence of political agency. In asking about the status of
the speaking human subject, we will look at 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, with a
heavy dose of case studies (many of them happening right now) and readings in
contemporary critical and legal theory. Class size: 22
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91956 |
HR 226 Women's Rights, Human Rights |
Robert Weston |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 102 |
SSCI/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies (core
course); Global & Int’l Studies 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: 22
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91953 |
HR 235 Dignity & THE Human Rights Tradition |
Roger Berkowitz |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 102 |
HUM/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Political Studies (core course) We live
at a time when the claim to human rights is both taken for granted and
regularly disregarded. One reason for the disconnect
between the reality and the ideal of human rights is that human rights have
never been given a secure philosophical foundation. Indeed, many have argued
that absent a religiously grounded faith in human dignity, there is no legal
ground for human rights. Might it be that human rights are simply well-meaning
aspirations without legal or philosophical foundation? And what is dignity
anyway? Ought we to abandon talk about dignity and admit that human rights are
groundless? Against this view, human rights advocates, international lawyers,
and constitutional judges continue to speak of dignity as the core value of the
international legal system. Indeed, lawyers in
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91760 |
LIT 2509 Telling Stories about Rights |
Nuruddin Farah |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 308 |
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
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
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91952 |
HR 257 Human Rights & the Economy |
Peter Rosenblum |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am 11:30 am |
HEG 201 |
HUM |
Cross-listed:
Global & Int’l Studies, (Human
Rights core course) This course is an exploration
of human rights at the intersection with economics, particularly development
economics and regulation of contemporary business practice in the global
economy. We will explore the complicated history of 'economic and social
rights' – second generation, 'positive' rights – before looking at efforts to
bring human rights considerations into the project of development and to use
human rights in battles with investors and global corporations. We will read
works by major figures in the field of development economics and human rights,
including Amartya Sen, Philip Alston, Peter Uvin, Jeffrey Sachs, Paul Collier,
William Easterly, Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo. We will also read case
studies and histories of activist campaigns and engagements with Nike, Shell
Oil, Tata Corporation the World Bank, and others. We will finish by looking at
the United Nations' engagement with business and human rights through the work
of John Rugge. Class
size: 22
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91954 |
HR 316 History of Human Rights |
Peter Rosenblum |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 305 |
HIST |
International human rights is both young and old. The core ideas stretch back at least as far
as the Enlightenment, while the founders of the modern movement are just
reaching retirement. And though it is
increasingly well established in international law, politics and the activities
of nongovernmental organizations, there is still considerable debate over what
human rights is and what it is intended to achieve: Is it a movement, an ideology
or a set of laws? Is its purpose to pressure repressive countries, to provide a
constitution for the world, or, more nefariously, to facilitate a neoliberal
economic agenda? In the last decade,
through books ranging from autobiographies to angry polemics, the debate has
emerged in competing views about what constitutes the history of human rights.
While telling the story of human rights, these histories also expose the
tension and controversy that underlie the movement, itself. Differences in
historiography reflect deep divisions in perception of the role that human
rights play or should play in the contemporary world. Readings will include
founding figures of the modern movement like Louis Henkin and Aryeh Neier,
distinguished journalists like Adam Hochschild, social theorists Michel
Foucault and Jurgen Habermas, and many historians, including Lynn Hunt, Samuel
Moyn, Carol Anderson, and Ken Cmiel.
Class
size: 15
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91955 |
HR 320 Human Rights and Media |
Thomas Keenan |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
BITO 210 |
AART/DIFF |
The project of representing suffering and
injustice, and making claims for rights, in visual terms has a long history,
stretching back at least to Goya's engravings of the
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92010 |
HR 327 THE RISE OF THE |
Mark Danner |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm - 3:50 pm |
RKC 102 |
SSCI |
How did declaring war on terror lead to the
rise of the
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91950 |
SST / HR 346 Studies in Obedience: THE MAN AND THE EXPERIMENT THAT
SHOCKED THE WORLD – |
Stuart Levine |
M . . . . |
3:00 pm -6:00 pm |
ARENDT CNTR. |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Social Studies 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.
*** NOTE – While that
which I describe in this note is still in the planning stage I would inform all
who may enroll in the seminar of the scheduling of “Sunday Evening” visitors to
the group. Such events may occur six or seven
times over the course of the term and the contribution of these individuals is
associated to the presentations by student members of our group on Monday
afternoon of the week. The visitors are
“Milgram/Obedience to Authority” scholars and researchers who reside or work in
our geographical area. The seminar on
such occasions will meet at 6:00 pm in the French Door Room of the Faculty
Dining Room and will last about two hours.
I will arrange for a pasta bowl from the dining service. The visitor will likely
then attend our Monday seminar session to join me in the discussion of
student presentations. This year I will
invite past students of the Obedience Seminar that are still enrolled at the
college should they wish to attend one or more of these sessions. Class size: 10
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91951 |
HR 347 Social Action: Theories AND PracticE |
Paul Marienthal |
. . . Th . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLIN 306 |
SSCI |
Everyday we hear about ambitious projects to make the world a
better place. From the Millennium Development Goals to local community action
projects, ordinary citizens around the world are unsatisfied with existing
solutions to problems and seek to turn their complaints and critiques into
positive proposals for change. Doing
things ethically and effectively takes thought, reflection, pragmatic
awareness, strategies, and skills. This seminar will examine the literature of
social action in order to learn about its theory and its practice. We will ask these questions: What does it
mean to engage in social action? What is it to do something 'on behalf of'
others? How do you account for race, class, gender, age difference? How do
typical forms of pedagogy and organizing change in the context of social
action? How do you deal with
interpersonal conflict? How do you determine the limits of empathy?
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92354 |
HR 348 The course of the commons, revisited |
Shuddhabrata Sengupta |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm – 3:50 pm |
OLIN 304 |
HUM |
What do we
mean by 'the commons' today? What do we hold in common, intellectually,
politically, and otherwise? Why is this
shared in-common important for an artistic engagement in political matters? The
course will build on the experience of the Raqs Media
Collective -- and on its reading of art, cinema, literature and philosophy --
to prepare a kind of vade mecum, or intellectual and cognitive toolkit, for any
young person who wants to let the arts equip him or her for the life of the
mind, and who wants to use art to commit themselves to creative
political action to defend the grounds of liberty and justice. Years ago, Heinrich Bluecher
developed a 'common course' at Bard, and this seminar will likewise involve
collating a body of textual and artistic material that expands the horizons of
Bard students. In a sense, we will operate with a view to making new materials
available for a new 'Common Course' that brings in references from humanist
traditions in the Islamicate world, Buddhist
anarchism, the histories of resistance to authoritarian forms of Zionism within
the Jewish tradition, and to contemporary accounts and modes of resistance,
from the Zapatistas to new forms of Labour Militancy
in contemporary India that foreground the imagination and creativity as
political tools. The course is taught by
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, of
the Raqs Media Collective, who holds the Keith Haring
Fellowship in Art and Activism for 2015-16. Class
size: 15
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91571 |
ARTH 247 Photography Since 1950 |
Laurie Dahlberg |
. . W . F |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
PRE 110 |
AART |
|
91567 |
ARTH 375 Mexican Muralism |
Susan Aberth |
. . W . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
FISHER ANNEX |
AART |
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91751 |
LIT 2105 POETIC JUSTICE: Law & LitERATURE from Plato to THE Present |
Joseph Luzzi |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 301 |
ELIT |
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91752 |
LIT 2120 Consciousness & Conscience |
Francine Prose |
. . . . F |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 101 |
ELIT |
|
91550 |
LIT 2203 Balkan Voices: WritIng from |
Elizabeth Frank |
. . W Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
ASP 302 |
FLLC/DIFF |
|
91552 |
LIT 319 PEOPLE MOVING: Literature & the Refugee |
Nuruddin Farah |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
|
91553 |
LIT 325 Why Do They Hate Us? REPRESENTING THE MIDDLE EAST |
Dina Ramadan |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLIN 309 |
FLLC |
|
91584 |
LIT 234 Literature of the Crusades |
Karen Sullivan |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
ASP 302 |
ELIT |
|
91742 |
WRIT 345 Imagining Nonhuman ConsciousnESs |
Benjamin Hale |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 304 |
PART |
|
91555 |
ITAL 331 DEMOCRACY AND DEFEAT: |
Franco Baldasso |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 309 |
FLLC |
|
91861 |
ANTH 213 Anthropology of Medicine |
Diana Brown |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91868 |
ANTH 221 Unnatural States: Theories and Ethnographies of Statehood
Today |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91868 |
ANTH 221 The State |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91866 |
ANTH 256 Race and Ethnicity in |
Mario Bick |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 305 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91867 |
ANTH 349 Political Ecology |
Yuka Suzuki |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLIN 306 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91869 |
ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. . . . F |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLIN 309 |
HUM/DIFF |
|
91894 |
HIST 112 THREE CITIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE URBAN
HISTORIES OF |
Drew Thompson |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
OLIN 205 |
HIST |
|
91895 |
HIST 130 Origins of American Citizen |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
|
91899 |
HIST 153 Diaspora & Homeland: A GLOBAL CORE COURSE |
Cecile Kuznitz |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 102 |
HIST/DIFF |
|
91903 |
HIST 2035 The Wars of Religion |
Tabetha Ewing |
. T . Th . |
6:20 pm -7:40 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST |
|
91976 |
HIST 2112 The Invention of Politics |
Tabetha Ewing |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HIST |
|
91902 |
HIST 2123 FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL: PhotoGRAPHY & Visual
History in |
Drew Thompson |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
HIST |
|
91906 |
HIST 2127 THE GENEALOGY OF Modern RevolutionS IN THE Middle East |
Omar Cheta |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 308 |
HIST |
|
91907 |
HIST 2134 Comparative Atlantic SLAVE Societies |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
|
91901 |
HIST 279 THE OTHER |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 310 |
HIST |
|
91922 |
HIST 3112 PLAGUE! |
Alice Stroup |
M . . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
OLIN 308 |
HIST |
|
91912 |
HIST 3148 READING THE Postcolonial IN
African History & AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT |
Drew Thompson |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
HIST |
|
91925 |
PHIL 326 The Ethics of Consent |
Alan Sussman |
. T . . . |
10:10 am - 12:30 pm |
HEG 200 |
HUM |
|
91928 |
PS 104 International Relations |
Michelle Murray |
M . W . . |
8:30 am -9:50 am |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI |
|
91930 |
PS 109 Political Economy |
Sanjib Baruah |
M . W . . |
10:10 am -11:30 am |
ASP 302 |
SSCI |
|
91936 |
PS 222 Latin AmericaN Politics & Society |
Omar Encarnacion |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
|
91939 |
PS 239 United Nations and Model UN |
James Ketterer |
. . . . F |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI |
|
91940 |
PS 280 Nations, States, & Nationalism |
Sanjib Baruah |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
|
91934 |
PS 285 Privacy: Why Does It Matter? |
Roger Berkowitz |
. . W . . |
5:00 pm -6:20 pm |
RKC 103 |
HUM |
|
91942 |
PS 341 Humanism, Human Rights, and the human condition |
Roger Berkowitz |
. T . . . |
4:40 pm -7:00 pm |
ARENDT CNTR |
HUM |
|
91944 |
PS 352 Terrorism |
Christopher McIntosh |
. T . . . |
10:10 am -12:30 pm |
ASP 302 |
SSCI |
|
91889 |
REL 332 Gandhi: Life, PhilOSOPHY, AND STRATEGIES OF Non-violence |
Richard Davis |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50 pm |
HEG 201 |
HUM |
|
91949 |
SOC 224 Punishment, Prisons, & Policing |
Allison McKim |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
RKC 111 |
SSCI |
|
91948 |
SOC 246 A CHANGING AMERICAN RACIAL ORDER? Race, Ethnicity &
Assimilation |
Joel Perlmann |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91946 |
SOC 269 Global Inequality & Development |
Peter Klein |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
RKC 115 |
SSCI/DIFF |