16414 |
HR 234
Defining the Human |
Robert Weston |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HUM |
(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);
17th-and 18th-century theories of “human nature” (e.g.,
Hobbes, Larochefoucauld, Mandeville, LaMettrie, Condillac, Rousseau,
Herder, Kant, Schiller); 19th 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: 25
16361 |
HR 242
Arguing with the Supreme Court (about rights) |
Peter Rosenblum |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
RKC 103 |
SSCI |
(Human Rights core
course) Supreme Court arguments
bring to bear a vast range of research and reflection on the law, policy and
politics of our society, including major issues of human rights. Recent terms have included cases on health
care, gay marriage, freedom of speech, religious freedom and the place of race
in education. The Supreme Court
decisions are undeniably important. The
arguments give life to the range of possibilities from which the decisions
emerge. Behind them is a often
undervalued process in which communities of interest engage in an ornate ritual
of advocacy that presents an even wider range of arguments. In this class, we will dig deeply into 7
cases from the last two years. We will
listen to tapes of the Supreme Court argument, read and analyze the background
documents (“briefs”) submitted to the court and research the major arguments
and actors. Along with the substance of
the cases, the course is intended to teach some basics about the mechanics of
Constitutional law in the
16412 |
HR 303
Research in Human Rights |
Peter Rosenblum |
W 1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLIN 307 |
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.
16359 |
HR 319
The Drone Revolutions |
Thomas Keenan |
T 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
RKC 102 |
SSCI |
2
CREDITS Military commentators and policymakers
claim that the proliferation of drone technology could alter the character of
war forever; on the home front, some are describing a $80 billion industry that
will create 75,000 jobs and result in untold efficiencies. But how much of this
is true, and how much is science fiction? Peering into a future in which
autonomous weapons systems target and kill without human intervention, and
drone highways criss-cross the American skies, this seminar should equip
students with the knowledge and analytic skills to judge whether we are indeed
on the edge of “the drone revolution.” The readings will be comprised mostly of
source documents: military and government reports, human rights investigations,
technical data, legal briefs, and policy documents and speeches. We will also
read Peter Singer's Wired for War, as well as portions of Dan Klaidman, Kill or
Capture; Gregoire Chamayou, Theory of the Drone; and Richard Whittle, Predator.
The class is taught in collaboration with Bard's Center for the Study of the
Drone, and some of our work will happen on the CSD web platform. 2 CREDITS,
with 7 or 8 meetings over the semester.
Class size: 20
16413 |
HR 323
Race and the Pastoral |
Ann Seaton |
W 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed:
Experimental Humanities We will begin by exploring
what is meant by the literary and cultural category of the 'pastoral.' Is it a
mode, a genre, an affect, or something else? The same critical
investigation applies to the category of 'race.' The seminar will consider what
'race' and 'the pastoral' might have to do with one another. The first
half of the class traces the pastoral from Ancient Greece to the
Renaissance. These canonically pastoral bodies, landscapes, and
(often same-sex) desires are our pastoral “primal scenes,” to be
returned to, reshaped, and internalized. Soon, though,
the pastoral emerges in relation to more explicit difference--in
early modern travel narratives, Montaigne, and the utopian-pastoral of
Bacon's "New Atlantis." In the second part of the class, we
consider the American pastoral (Emerson, Thoreau,
16360 |
HR 343
Photography & Human Rights |
Gilles Peress |
W 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 305 |
HUM |
The course starts with two questions. Can human rights avoid
becoming simply one more ideological form, and a dangerous one at that, given its
reliance on self-confidently mythic images of suffering and rescue, not to
mention the grand figure of Man that looms over everything else? And how can
photography help find a way out, given that mediation and representation have
always been central to the human rights enterprise? Starting with influential
historical accounts by Lynn Hunt and others, we will explore the ways in which
visual appeals have played a defining role in the establishment of human
rights, both as consciousness and as constitutional and international law.
Human rights today is unthinkable apart from photography. And along the way,
both have come in for a lot of criticism. This creates a conundrum of
representation at the heart of both. For without photography -- which is to
say, the vector by which NGOs generate knowledge, evidence, and funding, based
on a sense of empathy and urgency -- there would probably be fewer human rights
and no humanitarian movement. Class
size: 15
16362 |
HR 350
Antisemitism: Anatomy of Hatred |
Kenneth Stern |
Th 11:50 AM – 2:10 PM |
RKC 200 |
SSCI DIFF |
Cross-listed: Jewish Studies For as long as there have been human beings, there has been hatred, and antisemitism is one of its oldest and most persistent forms. What is antisemitism? How has it manifested itself in different eras, regions, political and economic systems and cultures – even in places that do not have Jews? How can it be combated? What insights can we gain about other forms of hatred (homophobia, racism, sexism, Islamophobia, etc.) from the in depth study of antisemitism? Readings will be wide-ranging, including selections from experts (Poliakov, Dinnerstein, Laqueur, Wistrich), historical figures such as Peter Stuyvesant, George Washington and Adolf Hitler, newspaper articles and social media postings, YouTube clips from antisemitic religious figures, literature from Nazis and neo-Nazis, Jewish communal internal memoranda, materials about and from court cases, and a class session with longtime Bard professor Justus Rosenberg, the last surviving member of the group that rescued hundreds of artists and intellectuals from the Nazis during World War II. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify and differentiate different types of antisemitism, understand how it works (and changes) as an ideology, how historical and socio-economic factors do and do not impact it, and how it fits within (but is also different from other members of) the family of bigotries. While this is a course designed for upper-college students, motivated first or second year students are welcome to apply. Please contact [email protected] if you have questions about the course. Class size: 18
16250 |
LIT 3206
Evidence |
Thomas Keenan |
M
1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
HUM |
Cross-listed:
Human Rights What
can literature and the arts teach us about evidence? Evidence would seem to be
a matter of facts, far from literary or artistic invention. But, whether fact
or fiction, we are regularly confronted by all sorts of signs, and we need to
learn how to read the traces of things left behind at this or that scene, of a
crime for instance. Matters of interpretation, presentation, even rhetoric
arise immediately. Evidence, at a minimum, is presented for our deliberation
and calls for us to make decisions, form conclusions, or reach judgments. Hence
its legal meanings. On the basis of the traces of what has happened —whether in
the form of statistics, objects, images, or testimony—we have to decide. This
holds even or especially when the evidence seems least equivocal, as in the
case of forensics. Sometimes what we see
and read seems to compel action, while at other times it appears to immobilize
us. As more and more of our world is
exposed to view, what becomes of the would-be foundational character of
evidence? What is it to ignore evidence? This seminar will explore the theory
and practice of evidence, with special attention paid to the different forms
evidence can take and the disputes to which it can give rise, especially when
violations of, and claims for, human rights are at stake.
16180 |
FILM 252
War Crimes in Film |
Ian Buruma |
M
1:30 pm-4:30 pm Screening: Su 6:00 pm-9:00 pm |
AVERY 333 |
AART |
Cross-listed:
Human Rights (core course) This course will look at the matter of war crimes through the cinema.
Subjects we will explore include legal definitions, as applied in war crime
trials, the political use made of historical atrocities, and the way the
16350 |
HIST 222
A History of the Modern Police |
Tabetha Ewing |
T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN 305 |
HIST |
Cross-listed:
American Studies; French Studies; Global &
International Studies; Human Rights (core course) (Part of the
Courage to Be series) This course explores the invention and evolution of
the police, including the international police, as a modern institution from
the late 17th century to the present. It focuses largely on
16428 |
PS 145
Human Rights in Global Politics |
Omar Encarnacion |
M
W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International Studies (core course);
Human Rights (core course) This course aims to
familiarize students with the main actors, debates, and explanations
behind the rise of human rights in global politics. The course is
divided into three core sections. The first explores the philosophical
foundations of the notion of human rights and its contested universality, and
the historical developments that propelled human rights to the forefront of
international politics, especially the atrocities of World War II committed by
16426 |
PS 231
Humanitarian Military Intervention |
Michelle Murray |
M
W 10:10 am-11:30 am |
OLIN 204 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed:
Global & International 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,
Cross-listed
courses in Human Rights:
16134 |
ARTH 281
Governing the World: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY |
Olga Touloumi |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
16335 |
ARTH 319
Animals and Animality in the Visual Culture of Early Modern
|
Susan Merriam |
Th 10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
FISHER ANNEX |
AART |
16211 |
LIT 2060
Modern Arabic Fiction |
Elizabeth Saylor |
T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
FLLC |
16242 |
LIT 2183
Kundera: The Art of Fiction |
Helena Gibbs |
M
W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 304 |
ELIT |
16210 |
LIT 2185
THE Politics AND Practice OF CultURAL ProdUCTION IN mENA |
Dina Ramadan |
M
W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
FLLC |
16479 |
WRIT 224
Literary JOURNALISM |
Ian Buruma |
M W 10:10 am-11:30 am |
OLIN 308 |
ELIT |
16381 |
ANTH 277
IN THE |
Sophia
Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
T Th 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI DIFF |
16340 |
ANTH 346
Surveillance:Human to Digital |
Laura Kunreuther |
W 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 310 |
HUM |
16529 |
ECON 221 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
Sanjaya DeSilva |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
ALBEE 106 |
SSCI |
16389 |
ECON 331
International Migration |
Aniruddha Mitra |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
HEG 106 |
SSCI |
16404 |
HIST 185
the making of the
Modern Middle East |
Omar Cheta |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLINLC 206 |
HIST DIFF |
16405 |
HIST 269
Encounters:American Brdrlnds |
Christian Crouch |
M
W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
16349 |
HIST 312
Middle Eastern Exp of Slavery |
Omar Cheta |
W 1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLIN 305 |
HIST |
16446 |
HIST 314
Violent Cult/Material Pleasure |
Christian Crouch |
T 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
FISHER ANNEX |
HIST |
16408 |
HIST 1001
Revolution |
Robert Culp Gregory Moynahan |
T Th 10:10 am-11:30 am |
PRE 110 OLIN 307 / 308 |
HIST |
16352 |
HIST 2039
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt |
Cynthia Koch |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
16410 |
HIST 2237
Radio |
Drew Thompson |
M
W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
16355 |
HIST 3134
The Arab |
Joel Perlmann |
T 3:10 pm-5:30 pm |
OLIN 303 |
HIST DIFF |
16532 |
LIT / JAPN 2216 Human Rights AND ModERN Japanese LitERATURE |
Scott Mehl |
M
W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
RKC 102 |
FLLC |
16250 |
LIT 3206
Evidence |
Thomas Keenan |
M
1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
HUM |
16421 |
PHIL 118
Human Nature |
Kritika
Yegnashankaran |
T Th 4:40 pm-6:00 pm |
OLIN 205 |
HUM |
16363 |
PHIL 124
Introduction to Ethics |
Jay Elliott |
M
W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN 203 |
HUM |
16416 |
PHIL 216
Political Theory |
Jay Elliott |
M
W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 101 |
HUM |
16425 |
PS 104
International Relations |
Michelle Murray |
M
W 8:30 am-9:50 am |
OLIN 204 |
SSCI |
16430 |
PS 109
Political Economy |
Sanjib Baruah |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 303 |
SSCI |
16424 |
PS 167
QUEST FOR JUSTICE: Foundations of the Law |
David Kettler |
M
W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
OLIN 310 |
HUM |
16584 |
PS
239 UNITED NATIONS AND MODEL UN |
Jonathan Becker |
F 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI |
1
credit*
16434 |
PS 273
Diplomacy in international politics |
James Ketterer |
M
W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 310 |
SSCI |
16367 |
PS 295
Revolution'y Constitutionalism |
Roger Berkowitz |
M
W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
HAC |
HUM |
16432 |
PS 314
Political Economy of Development |
Sanjib Baruah |
W 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
16436 |
PS 363
Ethics & International Affairs |
Christopher
McIntosh |
T 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
OLIN 308 |
SSCI |
16195 |
PSY / SST 251 Studies in Obedience: THE MAN AND THE EXPERIMENT THAT SHOCKED
THE WORLD ( |
Stuart Levine |
M
3:00 pm-6:00 pm |
LB3 302 |
SSCI |
16116 |
PSY 352
Race and the Law: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE |
|
W 10:10 am-12:30 pm |
HDR 101A |
SSCI DIFF |
16440 |
SOC 120
Inequality in |
Yuval Elmelech |
T Th 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI DIFF |
16439 |
SOC 205
Intro to Research Methods |
Yuval Elmelech |
T Th 4:40 pm-6:00 pm |
HDR 101A |
MATC |
16447 |
SOC 213
Sociological Theory |
Laura Ford |
M
W 3:10 pm-4:30 pm |
HEG 308 |
SSCI |
16444 |
SOC 224
Punishment/Prisons/Policing |
Allison McKim |
M
W 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
OLIN 102 |
SSCI |
16376 |
SOC 231
The Environment & Society |
Peter Klein |
T Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm |
HEG 204 |
SSCI |
16448 |
SOC 238
Law and (Social) Order |
Laura Ford |
M
W 1:30 pm-2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI |
16377 |
SOC 323
American Race & Ethnicity |
Joel Perlmann |
W 4:40 pm-7:00 pm |
OLIN 201 |
SSCI DIFF |
16442 |
SOC 352
Gender and Deviance |
Allison McKim |
Th 1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 208\ |
SSCI DIFF |
16209 |
SPAN 325
Archive Fever: Lit and Film |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
T 1:30 pm-3:50 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |