11882 |
HUM 245 Drones |
Thomas Keenan |
. T . . . |
4:40 pm –
7:00 pm |
HEG 308 |
HUM |
Cross-listed:
Computer Science, Human Rights (2 credits) Drones are, literally and
figuratively, everywhere. To most, drones watch and attack militants -- among others
-- in the War on Terror, sometimes with alarming results. But soon, drones will
be patrolling our own skies. What exactly is the drone, why does it matter, and
how should we, as a society, respond to it? This seminar is an
interdisciplinary bid to answer that question. We will explore the drone in
literature, beginning with harpies and demigods in ancient Greek mythology, to
consider our millennial fear of, and fascination with, the sky. We will
consider the drone in the history of warfare, comparing it to previous
technological advancements, from the long bow to the hydrogen bomb. We will ask
about the ethics and politics of surveillance, and explore the emergence of
automated devices for seeing and fighting at a distance. We will complicate the
prevailing sinister image of the drone by studying how it can be used as a
social good in activism, art, conservation, and disaster relief. The seminar
will feature regular guest speakers across a range of disciplines, including
faculty members from computer science, human rights, electronic arts, politics,
and philosophy, as well as activists and professional analysts. We will examine
the contemporary public debate about the drone and, drawing on our broad
approach, attempt to intervene in it. Participants will be expected to develop
original insights on the topic based on their own academic interests, and
articulate those insights in writing. This seminar is the first organizational
phase of a new student-initiated interdisciplinary research project on autonomous
technology. Students from all academic divisions are encouraged to apply. Class
size: 25
11511 |
PS 231 Humanitarian Military Intervention |
Michelle Murray |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
OLINLC 210 |
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
11365 |
ANTH 233 Problems in Human Rights |
John Ryle |
M . W . . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Global & Int'l Studies; Human Rights (core
course) This course approaches a set of practical and ethical human rights
issues through the study of historical and contemporary campaigns, starting
with the British anti-slavery movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The
emphasis is on practical questions of strategy and organization and the
problems that arise from these. What were the challenges that early campaigners
faced? How did they resolve them? What alliances of interest did they confront?
And what coalitions did they form to combat them? The course also considers how
human rights campaigners have engaged with - and been part of - wider
political, religious and economic changes. It examines the negotiations and
compromises that led to a key event in the twentieth-century human rights
history: the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Has the
subsequent success of the human rights movement - particularly the expansion of
international human rights legislation - changed its character? The course
examines the landmine ban campaign, the campaign against female genital cutting
and the campaign against child soldiers - and considers the ideological
challenges these issues present to the international human rights regime. When,
if ever, are indigenous values more important than universal principles? What
is the relation of human rights to religious values? Is human rights itself a
quasi-religious belief system? Finally the course considers some contemporary
challenges facing the human rights movement: the return of slavery and
slave-like practices and the question of genocide in Darfur, in particular the
role of the International Criminal Court. Class
size: 22
11706 |
HR 241 Law & Society: Constitutions |
Peter Rosenblum |
. T . Th . |
1:30pm - 2:50
pm |
ALBEE 106 |
HIST |
(HRP Core
course)
The constitution stands at the intersection of law and society. It is many
things: a basic law, a social contract, a statement of aspirations and a road
map for governance. It application reflects the continuing struggles of a
society to define itself through law. Constitutionalism has been a feature of
the modern state for several centuries. Written constitutions
with elaborate human rights provisions enforced by 'courts' are a very recent
innovation. In the course of 50 years, they have gone from being a relative
rarity to a widespread norm. This class will look at the theory and practice of
constitutionalism across different countries and regions, focusing particularly
on the recent decades. After anchoring the discussion in historical sources and
the peculiar role of the US constitution, we will look at 'cases and
controversies' from other countries, including France, Germany, India, South
Africa, Israel and parts of South America. Class
size: 20
11707 |
HR 244 Reproductive Health and Human Rights |
Helen Epstein |
. T . Th . |
1:30pm - 2:50
pm |
RKC 115 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Gender & Sexuality Studies This course will cover population
growth and family planning, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases,
prostitution and sex trafficking, maternal mortality, gender violence, female
genital mutilation, abortion and LGBT rights. Emphasis will be placed on how
public policies concerning these issues have evolved over time in relation to
historical events such as the Cold War, decolonization, immigration and
changing attitudes to the family.
Class size: 20
11575 |
ARTH 289 Rights and the Image |
Susan Merriam |
M . W . . |
11:50 am
-1:10 pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
Cross-listed:
Experimental Humanities, Human Rights (Core course) An examination
of the relationship between visual culture and human rights, using case studies
that range in time from the early modern period (marking the body to register criminality,
for example) to the present day (images from Abu Ghraib). Subjects addressed
include evidence, disaster photography, advocacy images, censorship, and
visibility and invisibility. Class size:
22
11709 |
HR 303 Research in Human Rights |
Peter Rosenblum |
. . . Th . |
10:10am -
12:30 pm |
OLIN 306 |
HUM |
What is it to do research, academic or otherwise, in
the field of human rights? What are the relevant methods, and tools? How do the
political and ethical considerations central to the discourse of human rights
enter into the actual conduct of research? The seminar, required for junior
Human Rights majors, will explore a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches to the field, reading a variety of examples across an
interdisciplinary landscape. Readings include texts in continental philosophy,
political and social theory, literary and cultural studies, international law,
media and visual culture, gender and identity research, documentary and
testimony, quantitative analysis including GIS and statistical data, oral and
archival history, among others, and many case studies in actual human rights
reporting. The seminar is required
for Juniors in Human Rights, and is
also open to others if there is space.
Class size: 15
11708 |
HR 318 Persons and Things |
Ann Seaton |
M . W . . |
1:30pm - 2:50
pm |
OLIN 107 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed:
Experimental Humanities The course will explore the question of
personhood in law, aesthetics, and culture, focusing on the relations
between persons and things. The fragility of the boundary
between persons and things is a recurring structure in the
history of human rights. How do persons become things, and vice
versa? How can things have rights, and how do they claim and exercise
them? Topics include the legal definition of "person", gender and
personhood, "illegal"/undocumented aliens, structures of
personification, reification, and anthromorphism, poetry and sculpture,
personhood as property, internet avatars and profiles, and the Pygmalion
complex. Texts by Ovid, Locke, Kleist, Hawthorne, Heidegger, Lacan, Baudelaire,
Plath, Harriet Jacobs, and Barbara Johnson, as well as films, videos, and
websites. Student assignments will consist of response papers, one 7-10 page
essay, and a final project. Final projects may use various forms of media
(music, animation, performance, sculpture, photography, personal narrative) to
respond to a conceptual question that students develop. Class size: 15
11710 |
HR 343 Empathy, Photography, and Human Rights |
Gilles Peress |
. T . . . |
1:30pm - 3:50
pm |
HDR 101A |
HUM |
Starting
with influential historical accounts by Lynn Hunt and others, we will explore
the ways in which empathy has played a defining role in the establishment of
human rights, both as consciousness and as constitutional and international
law. We will explore how, in the late 19th- and early 20th-century, this notion
of empathy becomes expressed and formalized increasingly through the usage of
photography. We will then examine how, today, within the
post-modernist framework of writers like Susan Sontag (Regarding the Pain of
Others) and Ingrid Sischy (Good Intentions), this process of empathy through
photography is being challenged at the very core of its various stylistic
interpretations. This creates a conundrum of representation at the heart of
both the human rights and humanitarian movements. For without photography --
which is to say, the vector by which NGOs generate knowlege, evidence, and
funding, based on a sense of empathy and urgency -- there would probably be
fewer human rights and no humanitarian movement.
Class size: 18
11711 |
HR 412 Re-reading "The Family of Man" |
Thomas Keenan |
. T . . . |
10:10am -
12:30 pm |
CCS |
AART |
Cross-listed:
Experimental Humanities Ever since its inaugural
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, the 503 photographs in
"The Family of Man" have been a topic of fascination and debate,
critique and enthusiasm. The seminar will explore the images and the debates in
order to re-examine the exhibit as a sort of archive of the human rights
imagination, and to investigate the powerful relation between contemporary
human rights discourse and the photographic image. The exhibition can be seen
as an effort to stage a visual parallel to the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948. The photos collected and shown in it attempt to
establish a common visual standard for measuring right and wrong on a global
scale. Most of the photos chosen serve this goal successfully, but what is seen
in them, or what can be learned through them, is not only this. After the
famous critiques of the exhibition's de-historicizing universalism by Roland
Barthes and Susan Sontag, among others, and after numerous attempts to
re-exhibit and re-frame the photographs in exhibitions and counter-exhibitions,
what remains striking is how little attention has been paid to reading and
interpreting the images themselves. We will focus on producing detailed
research and analysis of some images from the show, as part of a larger
international project at a number of universities inspired by an idea from
Ariella Azoulay. Class size: 18
Cross-listed courses, see primary section for descriptions:
11568 |
ARTH 244 Contemporary African Art |
Teju Cole |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
HEG 102 |
AART/DIFF |
11565 |
ARTH 353 Outsider Art |
Susan Aberth |
. . W . . |
1:30 pm -3:50
pm |
HDR 101A |
AART |
11802 |
ARTH 388 Contemporary Queer Theory |
Jeannine Tang |
. . W . . |
10:30am -
1:00 pm |
CCS |
AART |
11331 |
CHI / ASIA 205 Representations of Tibet |
Li-Hua Ying |
. T . Th . |
3:40 pm -5:00
pm |
OLINLC 120 |
ELIT/DIFF |
11811 |
HIST 190 The Cold War: Enemy/Globalism |
Gennady Shkliarevsky / Mark Lytle |
. T . Th . |
3:10 – 4:30
pm |
RKC 103 |
HIST/DIFF |
11882 |
HUM 245 Drones |
Thomas Keenan |
. T . . . |
4:40 pm –
7:00 pm |
HEG 308 |
HUM |
11697 |
LIT 2195 Why Do They Hate Us? Representing the Middle East |
Dina Ramadan |
. T . Th . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 107 |
FLLC |
11756 |
LIT 358 Exile & Estrangement Fiction |
Norman Manea |
M . . . . |
3:10 pm -5:30
pm |
OLIN 303 |
ELIT |
11370 |
PSY 246 Psychology of Good and Evil |
Kristin Lane |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI |
11461 |
PSY 261 Child Survival and Human Rights |
Helen Epstein |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI |
11364 |
ANTH 218 Africa: The Great Rift |
John Ryle |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
OLIN 305 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11459 |
ANTH 235 Economies of Gift & Sacrifice |
Robert Weston |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am
-1:10 pm |
OLIN 204 |
SSCI |
11457 |
ANTH 326 Urban
Guerrillas: Anthropology of Political Resistance |
Neni Panourgia |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50
pm |
OLIN 306 |
HUM/DIFF |
11456 |
ANTH 342 Post-Secular Aesthetics? |
Abou Farman Farmaian |
. . . Th . |
10:10am -
12:30pm |
OLINLC 206 |
HUM/DIFF |
11812 |
HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to the Present |
Gennady Shkliarevsky |
M . W . . |
11:50am -
1:10 pm |
HEG 201 |
HIST |
11486 |
HIST 178 Africa South of the Sahara, 1800 to the Present |
Wendy Urban-Mead |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
OLIN 203 |
HIST |
11487 |
HIST 185 History of Modern Middle East |
Charles Anderson |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am
-1:10 pm |
HEG 106 |
HIST/DIFF |
11488 |
HIST 215 Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism and the Contemporary Middle East |
Charles Anderson |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
OLIN 305 |
HIST |
11480 |
HIST 2133 Making of the Atlantic World |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST/DIFF |
11478 |
HIST 269 Encounters in the American Borderlands |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
11:50 am
-1:10 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST |
11813 |
HIST 2701 The
Holocaust, 1933-1945 |
Cecile
Kuznitz |
M . W . . |
10:10am-11:30am |
RKC 200 |
HIST/DIFF |
11361 |
HIST / PS 283 Environmental Politics in East Asia |
Robert Culp / Ken Haig |
. T . Th . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI |
11479 |
HIST 314 Violent Cultures and Material Pleasures in the
Atlantic World |
Christian Crouch |
. . . Th . |
10:10am -
12:30 pm |
OLIN 303 |
HIST |
11490 |
PHIL 118 Human Nature |
Kritika Yegnashankaran |
M . W . . |
11:50 am
-1:10 pm |
OLIN 205 |
HUM |
11504 |
PS / PHIL 167 Foundations of the Law |
Roger Berkowitz |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
ASP 302 |
HUM |
11495 |
PHIL 251 Ethical Theory |
William Griffith |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50
pm |
ASP 302 |
HUM |
11496 |
PHIL 256 Environmental Ethics |
Daniel Berthold |
M . W . . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 301 |
HUM |
11510 |
PS 104 International Relations |
Michelle Murray |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
RKC 103 |
SSCI |
11507 |
PS 249 War, Sovereignty, and the Subject of International Politics |
Christopher McIntosh |
M . W . . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 204 |
SSCI |
11514 |
PS 263 Democracy and the Rise of Fascism: The "Twenty Years' Crisis" |
Ian Storey |
. . W . F |
11:50am-1:10
pm |
HEG 308 |
SSCI |
11361 |
PS 283 Environmental Politics in East Asia |
Robert Culp / Ken Haig |
. T . Th . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI |
11788 |
PS 314 Political Economy of Development |
Sanjib Baruah |
. . W . . |
10:10am -
12:30pm |
OLIN 306 |
SSCI |
11509 |
PS 377 Grand Strategy From Sun Tzu to Clausewitz |
Walter Mead |
. . . Th . |
1:30 pm -3:50
pm |
OLIN 307 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11667 |
SOC 126 Race and Place in Urban America |
Clement Thery |
. T . Th . |
6:20 pm -7:40
pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11664 |
SOC 135 Sociology of Gender |
Allison McKim |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30
pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11662 |
SOC 140 Israeli Society at the Crossroads |
Yuval Elmelech |
. T . Th . |
10:10am -
11:30am |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11669 |
SOC 214 Contemporary Immigration |
Joel Perlmann |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00
pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI/DIFF |
11668 |
SOC 321 Can We Study Everything? Original Thinking
about Difficult Topics |
Clement Thery |
. . . Th . |
1:30 pm -3:50
pm |
OLIN 303 |
SSCI |
11663 |
SOC 332 Seminar on Social Problems |
Yuval Elmelech |
. T . . . |
1:30 pm -3:50
pm |
OLINLC 210 |
SSCI/DIFF |