92227

HR 122

Human Rights and Media

Anya Luscombe

W F 11:50 am – 1:10 pm

OLINLC 206

SSCI

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities (HR core course.) This introductory course examines the way human rights and media – particularly journalism - are linked, both by tracing historical developments and discussing contemporary issues. According to the United Nations, “a free, uncensored, unhindered press or other media is essential in any society to ensure freedom of expression.” Taking Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and fear) as our starting point, we will consider the role that journalists should and do play in relation to human rights. We will also examine the way human rights activists and marginalized groups use media in a time of changing media technologies, and explore the connection between human rights and media literacy education. What are the threats and opportunities for journalists, NGOs, and civic groups that seek media attention? Which types of human rights related stories are covered in mainstream and alternative media? What is the impact of ‘fake news’ and ‘social media loops’ on the profession of journalism, on people’s understanding of their rights, and on democratic societies? As well as discussing academic readings (e.g. Galtung & Ruge, McQuail, Pollock), journalistic outputs (e.g. Gellhorn, Pilger, Fisk) and case studies from around the world, students will devise and carry out a small practical media project. Class size: 22

91870

HR 125

Human Rights: What Remains?

Peter Rosenblum

T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 204

SSCI

Cross-listed: Political Studies (HR core course.) This class will explore the contemporary state of international human rights law and politics. After a period of phenomenal growth in prominence since the 1970s and a burst of institutional innovation and legal expansion after the end of the Cold War, international human rights appears to have lost its momentum. In the first half of the class, we will explore the rise of international human rights and the factors that appear to have contributed to its decline, including post 9-11 security priorities, changes in the global economy and ideological challenges. The second half of the class will be devoted to case studies in contemporary human rights including: (i) the International Criminal Court, (ii) Human rights in the corporate supply chain, (iii) Migrant rights in Europe and (iv) Countries facing major transitions (e.g.,Colombia, Sri Lanka). The goal of the second half is to critical evaluate the continuing role of human rights in international affairs. There will be some readings on the history of human rights, including Sam Moyn, Aryeh Neier and Kathryn Sikkink. The case studies will be prepared from contemporary materials, including the materials of courts, activists, and critics. Class size: 22

92474

HR 153

eleanor roosevelt

Anya Luscombe

W 9:30 am-11:30 am

RKC 200

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies 2 credits As First Lady of the US from 1933-1945, Eleanor Roosevelt is remembered as a campaigner for social, economic and civil rights; one of the most influential public diplomats of the twentieth century; a journalist; and a teacher. Under her chairmanship, the United Nations Human Rights Commission drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in December 1948. She was also keenly interested in the Bard College curriculum, and particularly approved of Bard’s public engagement activities. In all of her work as a political activist. ER promoted her ideas by astute use of various forms of communication--including radio, print media, and even photography. Furthermore, she strongly believed in the transformative power of liberal arts pedagogy. In this 300-level course students will use archival material available through the FDR Library to investigate the ways Eleanor Roosevelt deployed the media forms of her day to "educate" the broader public of her views, and to further examine her views on liberal arts education. We will also consider how current forms of communication--including social media, the Internet, visual media, radio, and print media-- promote active citizenship, can be either progressive or conservative forces, and are utilized by first ladies. Class size: 15

91862

HR 221

Queer Subjects of Desire

Robert Weston

M W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 101

MBV

D+J

HUM

DIFF

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies Over the past two decades, preliminary discourse-shaping debates between proponents of Gay & Lesbian Studies and proponents of Queer Theory have proliferated into a rich array of subfields in the research on gender and sexuality. In this course students will engage in core debates that shape the widening field of sexuality studies. The course will be organized into a series of units devoted to different approaches to the study of sexuality in a global context: units vary, but may include: Queer Theory; Psychoanalysis; Gender Theory; Feminism; Desiring Capitalism; The History of (Homo)Sexuality ; Homosexuality & the Law; Ethnosexualities; Sexuality & Race; Transgender. Class size: 22

91863

HR 226

Women's Rights, Human Rights

Robert Weston

T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 101

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies (HR 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: 22

91871

HR 236

the end of the paradigm? Terror, Trump, and the Testing of Human Rights

Mark Danner

M W 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 203

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies (HR core course) Since at least the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, and as far back as the Lieber Code during the Civil War, the United States has been a leader of the international human rights movement. In recent decades this leadership has gone hand in hand with national interest, which also meant building multilateral alliances in Europe and Asia and imposing with the help of American Military power an open worldwide trading system. As these alliances and the trading system built upon them have come into question with the rise to power of Donald J. Trump, so too has American leadership in the promotion of human rights. In this class we will examine the history of US human rights policy, analyze its overlap -- and conflicts -- with the US national security interests, and seek to understand the actions of the Trump Administration as it builds a new "America First" foreign policy. Class size: 22

91872

HR 311

Food, Labor & Human Rights

Peter Rosenblum

W 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 307

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies This is a seminar that will explore the burgeoning areas of activism that link food, labor and human rights. It will explore domestic and international efforts to understand, regulate and improve the conditions of workers who produce food. The seminar will be built around case studies of advocacy efforts around the world. The first part of the seminar will be devoted to readings in the history of agricultural labor, the role of plantation economies, and contemporary analyses of the relationship between labor and the economics of food production through the writings of Olivier De Schutter, former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food. This will be followed by readings on private and public mechanisms to improve the conditions of workers in the food sector, including fair trade and social certification programs. Case studies will include: (i) migrant workers in the Hudson Valley, (ii) tomato pickers in Florida (and the effort to apply the lessons to dairy workers in New England), (iii) child labor in the cocoa sector the tea sector, and (iv) tea plantations in India. Class size: 15

91864

HR 314

Humanitarian Action

Thomas Keenan

T 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 303

D+J

HUM

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies A critical introduction to the ideas and practices of modern humanitarianism. Starting with the founding of the Red Cross in 1863, we'll trace the pathways that have led to the contemporary landscape of non-governmental relief organizations and state-sponsored humanitarian intervention. How does the suffering of others attract our attention in the first place? How do charity, law, politics, and logistics interact in crisis situations? We will examine some central concepts -- neutrality, emergency, crisis, testimony, refugee, victim, camp, and especially “humanity" itself -- and pay particular attention to the political and ethical dilemmas which have been nicknamed the 'humanitarian trap.' We will follow the movement from Solferino to the Geneva Conventions, from the Cold War to Live Aid, from Rwanda to Kosovo, and now to the so-called European refugee crisis, and examine how the charitable action of concerned individuals became a global enterprise directed by aid professionals and famine experts. We will investigate the role of celebrities and the media, the political and legal infrastructure of relief, the militarization of humanitarianism in the post-Cold War, and the principles and practices of the ‘without borders’ movement - all the while trying not to forget about the people who remain in need of protection and assistance, Readings and screenings include work by Agier, Benthall, Brauman, De Waal, Doctors Without Borders, Fassin, Givoni, Laqueur, Malkii, Rieff, Ticktin and Feldman, UNHCR, and others. This course is part of the Liberal Arts Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education initiative. Class size: 18

92130

HR 354

Reproductive HEAlth AND Human Rights

Helen Epstein

Th 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 303

D+J

SSCI

Cross-listed: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies Beginning in the thirteenth century, a radical shift in attitudes and norms concerning family life began spreading from one society to another. It changed relationships between women and men and between parents and children and also how people saw themselves. It is still underway. Scholars call it the Demographic Transition, narrowly defined as a progressive reduction in the size of families and an increase in the survival of children, but it brought with it human rights struggles and political turmoil, personal and romantic upheavals, intellectual and artistic movements and the spread of diseases like syphilis and AIDS. In this course, you will be introduced to the evidence concerning the Demographic Transition as well as its consequences for women, children, men, societies and nations. Class size: 15

92250

HR 357

violence, sovereignty, and the image: analyzing isis media

Galit Eilat

M 1:30 pm – 3:50 pm

OLIN 308

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies Boris Groys has suggested that video art is the medium of choice for the contemporary warrior, and enthroned Osama bin Laden as the king of video artists. The warrior/terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS) are both iconoclasts and masters of spectacular image creating, editing, and distributing. Bin Laden once reminded Mullah Omar that "media war" was "90% of the total preparation for the battles.” Today Al-Qaeda and ISIS draw heavily on Abu Bakr Naji's manifesto, The Management of Savagery, which outlines a three-pronged approach: to win support among Muslims, to project an image of amplified power, and to disrupt what Naji calls the Western “media halo,” the projection of an image of not just overwhelming but total power. Sovereignty has always sought to have itself represented in art, in an art of glorification and sanctification. The violence depicted is often testified to only in martial vestments and the poses of a monarch, he who exercises presumed legitimate violence necessary to political order, i.e. to sovereignty as such. Yet when violence becomes the permanent expression of sovereignty, when the state of exception becomes the norm, when the sovereign no longer represents power but is power in its very exercise, it escapes pictorial representation except in the banalities of everyday life. We'll examine a lot of media material and works by Ellul, Groys, Löwy, Taubes, Badiou, Weber, Schmitt, Dabiq Magazine, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Salman Sayyid, Buck Morss, A. Hanieh, J. Stern, J. Rose and Jand Nico Prucha. (Galit Eilat is the 2017-18 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism.) Class size: 15

92152

LIT 2509

Telling Stories about Rights

Nuruddin Farah

M W 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 306

D+J

ELIT

DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights (HR 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 Kenya). Class size: 18

91858

PHIL 130

Philosophy & Human Rights

Ruth Zisman

T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 201

MBV

D+J

HUM

Cross-listed: Human Rights (HR core course) From the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, to privacy and marriage, the language of rights permeates our understanding of political life, of citizenship, and of personhood itself. Yet the foundation, function, and limits of human rights remain deeply puzzling and highly contested- perhaps more so today than any time in recent history. What are human rights and what is their source? What is the relationship between human rights and human nature, human rights and morality, human rights and law, human rights and freedom? Can any human right truly be universal? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions by exploring the philosophical underpinnings, justifications, and criticisms of human rights.

Class size: 22

92129

ANTH 218

The Rift

John Ryle

M W 4:40 pm-6:00 pm

HEG 308

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

91865

ANTH 221

Theories/Ethnogr: Statehood

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

M W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 204

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies Class size: 22

91885

ANTH 237

Refugees/Populism in Europe

Jeffrey Jurgens

M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm

HEG 102

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 22

91888

ANTH 319

Toxicity & Contamination

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Th 10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society Class size: 15

91889

ANTH 350

Contemporary Cultural Theory

Laura Kunreuther

T 10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 306

D+J

HUM

DIFF

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

92225

ANTH 351

The Interview

John Ryle

T 3:10 pm-5:30 pm

HEG 308

SSCI

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 15

92325

ECON 228

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

Taun Toay

T 4:50 pm – 6:10 pm

LEVY 201

SSCI

Cross-listed: Economics and Finance; Human Rights

91838

HIST 130

Origins of American Citizen

Christian Crouch

M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

91867

HIST 159

Modern France

Tabetha Ewing

T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

DIFF

Cross-listed: French Studies; Human Rights Class size: 20

91868

HIST 2112

The Invention of Politics

Tabetha Ewing

T Th 4:40 pm-6:00 pm

OLIN 205

HIST

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 20

92117

HIST 225

Migrants/Refugees in Americas

Miles Rodriguez

T Th 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 203

D+J

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights; Latin American and Iberian Studies Class size: 22

91869

HIST 2306

Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Modern China

Robert Culp

M W 10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 310

D+J

HIST

DIFF

Cross-listed: Anthropology; Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

91841

HIST 2315

War in Colonial America

Christian Crouch

M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 202

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Experimental Humanities; French Studies; Human Rights; Latin American and Iberian Studies Class size: 22

91857

HIST 3149

POLITICS/AFRICA'S CIVIL WARS

Drew Thompson

T 10:10 am-12:30 pm

HEG 201

D+J

HIST

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

91932

ITAL 331

DEMOCRACY AND DEFEAT:

Italy after Fascism

Franco Baldasso

M 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 309

FLLC

Cross-listed: Human Rights

92220

LIT 227

Labor/Migration: Arabic Lit

Dina Ramadan

M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm

HEG 308

FLLC

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies Class size: 22

92146

LIT 313

Lit Responses:Totalitarianism

Francine Prose

F 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 101

ELIT

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 15

92153

LIT 3212

Writing Africa

Nuruddin Farah

T 10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 302

ELIT

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Human Rights Class size: 12

92093

PS 109

Political Economy

Sanjib Baruah

M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 101

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Sociology Class size: 20

91859

PS 167

Foundations of the Law

Roger Berkowitz

M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 204

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Philosophy Class size: 22

91861

PS 207

Global Citizenship

Michelle Murray

M W 8:30 am-9:50 am

OLIN 201

D+J

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

92039

PS 222

Latin America:Politics/Society

Omar Encarnacion

M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American and Iberian Studies Class size: 18

92097

PS 252

What is Democracy?

Kevin Duong

M W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 205

D+J

SSCI

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 22

92098

PS 314

Political Econ. of Development

Sanjib Baruah

W 10:10 am-12:30 pm

HEG 200

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

92099

PS 352

Terrorism

Christopher McIntosh

M 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 306

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

91850

PS 358

Radical American Democracy

Roger Berkowitz

T 4:40 pm-7:00 pm

HAC CONFERENCE

MBV

SSCI

Cross-listed: American Studies; Human Rights; Philosophy Class size: 14

92246

PS 368

PROMOTING Democracy ABROAD

Omar Encarnacion

M 4:40 pm – 7:00 pm

OLIN 303

SSCI

Cross-listed: Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

92126

REL 358

Sanctuary: Theology and Social Action

Bruce Chilton

F 3:00 pm-5:20 pm

OLIN 305

MBV

D+J

HUM

DIFF

Cross-listed: Human Rights, Theology

91852

SOC 120

Inequality in America

Yuval Elmelech

T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 203

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

91854

SOC 205

Intro to Research Methods

Yuval Elmelech

T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

HDR 101A

MATC

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

91855

SOC 262

Sexualities

Allison McKim

M W 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 204

D+J

SSCI

DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

92221

SOC 346

Governing the Self

Allison McKim

Th 1:30 pm-3:50 pm

OLIN 309

SSCI

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 15

92189

WRIT 326

Writing and Resistance

Joseph O'Neill

M 11:50 am-2:10 pm

OLIN 310

PART

Cross-listed: Human Rights Class size: 14