Course:

HR/LIT 218  Free Speech

Professor:

Ziad Aub-Rish

CRN:

15963

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Literature

(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.  

 

Course:

HR 234  (Un)Defining the Human

Professor:

Robert Weston  

CRN:

15800

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Albee 106

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

(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).

 

Course:

HR 235  Dignity and the Human Rights Tradition

Professor:

Roger Berkowitz  

CRN:

15610

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Philosophy; Political Studies

(Human Rights 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 Germany and South Africa are developing a "dignity jurisprudence" that might guarantee human rights on the foundation of human dignity. Is it possible, therefore, to develop a secular and legally meaningful idea of dignity that can offer a ground for human rights? This class explores both the modern challenge to dignity and human rights, the historical foundations of human rights, and modern attempts to resuscitate a new and more coherent secular ideal of dignity as a legally valid guarantee of human rights. In addition to texts including Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, we read legal cases, and documents from international law. This course satisfies the requirement for a core course in the Human Rights Program. This course also satisfies the Philosophy program's Histories of Philosophy requirement. All philosophy majors are required to take two courses fulfilling this requirement, starting with the class of 2025.

 

Course:

SPAN 240  Testimonies of Latin America: Perspectives from the Margins

Professor:

Nicole Caso  

CRN:

15538

Schedule/Location:

Mon   Thurs    1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 118

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

(Human Rights Core Course) This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically with texts that serve as a public forum for voices often silenced in the past. Students will also learn about the broader context of the hemisphere’s history through the particular experiences of women from Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina, Mexico, and the U.S.-Latino community, including Rigoberta Menchú, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, and Cherríe Moraga.  We will read testimonial accounts documenting the priorities and concerns of women who have been marginalized for reasons of poverty, ethnic difference, political ideologies, or sexual preference.  The semester will be devoted to analyzing the form in which their memories are represented textually, and to the discussion of the historical circumstances that have led to their marginalization.  Some of the central questions that will organize our discussions are: how to represent memories of violence and pain? What are the ultimate effects of mediations of the written word, translations to hegemonic languages, and the interventions of well-intentioned intellectuals?  How best to use writing as a mechanism to trace a space for dignity and “difference”?  We will integrate films that portray the issues and time-periods documented in the diaries and testimonial narratives to be read – including “Men With Guns”, “El Norte,” “Historia oficial,” and “Rojo amanecer.”  Conducted in English.

 

Course:

HR 263  A Lexicon of Migration

Professor:

Peter Rosenblum  

CRN:

15799

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

Crosslists: Anthropology; Global & International Studies

(Human Rights Core Course)  Migration is one of the most important and contested features of today’s interconnected world. In one way or another, it has transformed most if not all contemporary nation-states into “pluralist,” “post-migrant,” and/or “super-diverse” polities. And it affects everyone—regardless of their own migratory status. This course examines migration from local, national, and global perspectives, with particular emphasis on the developments that are shaping the perception of crisis in the US and Europe. The course also traces the emergence of new modes of border regulation and migration governance as well as novel forms of migrant cultural production and representation. Above all, it aims to provide students with the tools to engage critically with many of the concepts and buzzwords—among them “asylum,” “border,” “belonging,” “citizenship,” and “illegality—”that define contemporary public debates. A Lexicon of Migration is a Bard/HESP (Higher Education Support Program) network course that will collaborate with similar courses at Bard Network  colleges, in addition to courses in the Migration Consortium at Vassar, Sarah Lawrence and Bennington.

 

Course:

HR 269  Slavery, Reconciliation and Repair

Professor:

Kwame Holmes 

CRN:

15667

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Aspinwall 302

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Historical Studies

(Human Rights Core Course) How does a society heal from a self-inflicted wound? From 1619 to 1864, American chattel slavery sustained American capitalism at the expense of the mental and physical health of enslaved Africans and their descendents.Ulster county has announced their interest in creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the “ongoing present” of slavery in their community. As a member of that committee, I am inviting students to participate in our work. In the first third of the semester, students will read the latest scholarship on the racialized injury of slavery and explore the history of African American's efforts to win reparations for those injuries. Students will learn about contemporary efforts to redress the wrong of slavery in the United States and abroad.  Finally students will join the work of the commission by researching the history of slavery in the region, and participating in genealogical research on residents with a direct connection the Ulster County's slave past/present. Ultimately, our class will make recommendations to the commission that reflect our understanding of the relationship between reconciliation and reparation.

 

Course:

HR 271  Comparative Settler Colonialism

Professor:

Ziad Abu-Rish  

CRN:

15668

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Political Studies

This course offers an introduction to settler colonialism as a particular form of colonial rule, process of state formation, and structure of social relations. It begins with a conceptual and theoretical distinction between “settler colonialism” (e.g., the United States, South Africa, and Algeria) and “metropole colonialism” (e.g., British India and French Morocco). The course then shifts to it second part, which explores specific case studies, spending about 1-2 weeks on each case, surveying the most pertinent literature that has adopted the analytic of settler colonialism. Case studies will be determined in consultation with enrolled students, but will primarily draw from any combination of the following potentials: Algeria, Australia, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Palestine, South Africa, and the United States. The final part of the course will attend to the ways in which international law and human rights have historically and contemporarily facilitated and/or challenged settler colonialism as colonial practice or state structure. Students will be expected to provide reading responses, co-create an analytic glossary, and produce a final review essay that analyze two books, each focused on a different settler colonial state.

 

Course:

HR 272  (Trans)Formations: Intro to Transgender Studies

Professor:

Robert Weston  

CRN:

15813

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Aspinwall 302

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course provides students the opportunity to examine critically, and in depth, multiple facets of transgender existence. Students explore a breadth of topics in the burgeoning field of Transgender Studies, ranging from transgender history (including the history of trans medicine), to the economics and politics of access—access to treatment, access to bathrooms and other gender-segregated spaces, and more generally, access to things like housing, jobs, benefits, sports, and military service. Students read and discuss works of transgender autobiography and trans fiction that express first-hand the experience of transitioning and of existing within families and other gendered institutional frameworks that regulate rigidly binary sex-gender systems. Students also engage with contemporary cultural and political discussions in the field concerning issues like transphobia; the relevance of sex/gender distinctions for trans identity; the relationship of “transgender” as identity category to forms of gender non-conformity in historically, racially- or geographically-remote cultures; issues around surgical intervention; social complexities and ethical dimensions of “passing”; TERF feminism and other resistance to trans inclusion; trans navigation of the modern security state; issues of trans justice and the struggle for trans rights, including legal battles for inclusion, for access, for name changes and gender markers on state and federal I.D.s. Because transgender studies draw from and build upon thought developed in other fields, the course aims to provide students with sufficient context to situate transgender studies in relation to feminist-, gender-, queer-, and critical race-theory, as well as to related work in emergent fields like queer of color critique and poor queer studies. Historical context is provided through texts by Harry Benjamin, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Richard von Krafft-Ebbing, and theoretical grounding through works by pioneering gender theorists and historians such as Butler, Rubin, Garber, Meyerowitz, and Namaste. The bulk of readings consist in contemporary works by trans and gender-queer authors, such as Halberstam, Feinberg, Stryker, Currah, Meyerowitz, Serano, Preciado, Mock, Stone, Riley-Snorton, and Spade.

 

Course:

HR 303  Research in Human Rights

Professor:

Peter Rosenblum 

CRN:

15798

Schedule/Location:

 Tue     3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Hegeman 201

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

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.

 

Course:

HR 354  Reproductive Health and Human Rights

Professor:

Helen Epstein  

CRN:

15611

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    9:10 AM – 11:30 AM OSUN

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Global & International Studies

Centuries ago, a radical shift in attitudes and norms concerning sexual, reproductive and family life began spreading from one society to another. 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 its causes and consequences included political turmoil, personal and romantic upheavals, intellectual and artistic movements, the spread of diseases like syphilis and AIDS and new ideas about self and identity. This Open Society University Network course will explore how individuals, groups and governments have responded, and continue to respond, to these changes through policy and social movements related to population growth, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, sex work and sex trafficking, maternal mortality, abortion, gender violence and other issues. The role of historical context, including the Industrial Revolution, the Cold War, the decolonization of the developing world and the Global War on Terror will be emphasized. This is an OSUN class and is open to Bard students as well as students from multiple OSUN partner institutions.

 

Course:

HR 358  LGBTQ+ Issues/US Education

Professor:

Michael Sadowski  

CRN:

15780

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Henderson Computer Ctr Annex 106

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 2

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course will examine both the history and contemporary landscape of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related (LGBTQ+) issues in U.S. education. Students will explore the legal, political, pedagogical, and empirical questions that have been central to this field over the last three decades, such as: What are the rights of LGBTQ+ students and educators, and what are the obstacles to their being realized? What strategies have been successful in advocacy for more LGBTQ+ positive schools, and what lessons do they hold for future change? What do LGBTQ+ supportive school environments look like, and what does research tell us about their effectiveness? Although K–12 schooling will be the primary focus of the class, we will also examine the landscape of undergraduate education vis-à-vis LGBTQ+ issues. As a final project, students will present an “educational change plan,” in which they envision how they might contribute to positive change in an area related to this relatively nascent field. Class will meet for the second half of the semester March 29th – May 24th.

 

Course:

HR 372  Chronic: Disability, Sickness, and Care

Professor:

Evan Calder Williams

CRN:

16058

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Center for Curatorial Studies

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Architecture

This seminar engages with disability studies, queer theory, architectural and design history, political ecology, and histories of radical organizing and mobilization that focus on the idea and experience of disability and sickness. In traversing these materials, this seminar aims to to ask: rather than seeing disability and sickness simply as a limitation or failure to reach a "healthy" norm, what can the experience and often hidden histories of the disabled and chronically ill, as well as those who fight for their care, reveal about social structures, ideologies, and patterns of circulation that cannot be seen otherwise? What would it mean to move beyond the political and ideological centrality of the idea of health and to instead understand how it can function to normalize racialized and gendered structures of exclusion and privation? And what models of care, collectivity, flexibility, and access have been, and might be posed, against this, through the speculative work of chronic theorists and disability justice advocates and through hard-fought campaigns and daily ad hoc solutions alike? Authors considered include: Alexis Shotwell, Alondra Nelson, Liat Ben-Moshe, Aimi Hamrie, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Neil Ahuja, Georges Canguilhem, Mel Y. Chen, and Eli Clare.

 

Course:

HR 376  Housing Justice

Professor:

Kwame Holmes  

CRN:

15612

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies

This course-practicum will introduce students to the l theory, history and practice of political organizing for housing justice. In the “study” portion of the course, students will begin with critical legal and cultural studies of “property,” “property rights” and the landlord-tenant relationship.  We will then explore the history of public and fair housing policy in the United States from the height of the New Deal in the 1930s to the decentralization and neoliberalization of the post-Reagan era.  As we turn toward the “practice” part of the course, we will engage how housing inequity manifests in small towns like Kingston, NY and urban-rural areas like Ulster County. Now two years from the start of the COVID crisis, New York state’s moratorium on evictions comes to an end in January, 2022. In collaboration with Legal Services of the Hudson valley, our class will closely track eviction proceedings in Kingston courts, as well as monitor the city’s investigation into a series of fires that have functionally evicted low-income tenants from multi-unit buildings poised for sale.  Our goal is the production of an audio documentary about eviction in the immediate wake of the moratorium.

 

Course:

HR 379  Exhibiting (Im)mobility: Art, Museums, Migration

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15669

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Architecture; Art History; Middle Eastern Studies

Can artists and museums respond to the current refugee crisis? The 21st century has witnessed the undeniable prevalence of the refugee, the migrant, the stateless, and the politically displaced — categories produced by global capitalism’s uneven distribution of resources. Against this harsh reality, artists and curators have actively engaged with representations of the disposed, and more recently, welcomed refugees into their spaces as part of broader initiatives centered on integration. This class will consider how contemporary exhibitions and artistic projects have sought to integrate the figure of the refugee into the traditionally reified space of the museum and examine the possibilities and limitations of art to transcend cultural and political barriers to generate empathy, and even solidarity. Topics to be discussed include art programming and refugee integration, museum responses to the migrant crisis, attempts to decolonize museums, migration and repatriation, boycott and divestment efforts. This class will be a collaboration between students at Bard College and Middlebury College. Throughout the semester, students will work together to produce an online resource related to the course materials.

 

Course:

HR 382  Decentering Photography: Human Rights Strategies for Unsettling

Professor:

Juan Orrantia

CRN:

15671

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM – 11:30 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 6

This course engages photography from a critical, reflexive perspective as a way to develop forms of unsettling the implications of western reason in photographic discourse, canons and assumptions. Following a commitment to explore the productive and contentious relation between the arts and critical approaches to human rights, we seek exposure to conceptual frameworks and artistic strategies that deploy photography’s potential for self-determination, the remaking of histories, and forms of interruption/intervention. This, while unpacking the medium’s own involvement in colonial, racialized and gendered histories. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist and queer experiences and visual/artistic practices we will address issues like the politics of color; technology and race; (self)representations; intention and collaboration; anticolonialism and visual arts; and the white male gaze. Throughout the course participants will develop guided and individual artistic responses to the topics of the course. Class sessions will consist on a combination of seminar style discussions of artistic works and readings, as well as critique of participant’s photographic/artistic responses. Knowledge and practical skills with photography/visual arts is desired but not required. We will also be also exploring cameraless approaches to photography like scanning, xeroxing and low res printing, strategies of appropriation, and color among others. (Depending on the number of participants, this can lead to the development of a collective, low res print publication).

 

Course:

HR 383  The Clash of Images and Human Rights Advocacy

Professor:

Nadine Fattaleh  

CRN:

15672

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM – 2:50 PM  Barringer 104

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 6

Borrowing its title from Moroccan writer Abdelfattah Kilito’s book, “The Clash of Images,” this seminar will consider the place of imaging technologies in a saturated world of confrontational visibility. Today, “everybody has a face, which is to say an image that doubles him.” Still, we will seek to draw out tensions between those who are afforded the right to stare and Others who are condemned to look with downcast eyes, capturing perhaps glimpses pregnant with possibility. Our collective foray is grounded in Kilito’s world: one where a culture that proscribed the image gradually succumbed to the charm of the fleeting, the illusory or the deceitful binds of photographs, magic lanterns, cinema, comic strips and illustrated books. We will collectively ruminate on various types of images, from the apotropaic, mimetic, or efficacious image, to the forensic, poor, or operational image and the gulf that serapes them. Images mediate, and we’ll question their technologies of production, chains of transmission, techniques of storages, infrastructures of circulation, and modes of enunciation. Images make things appear, and we’ll attune our senses to the forms of exposure that inscribe presence in absence, attending to opacities that simultaneously reveal and conceal. Images are political, and we’ll navigate ways in which people historically catalogued, categorized, erased or silenced by colonial imaging have reversed or refused the very terms of their subjection. Images clash, and we’ll pause to consider the head-on collision of cinemas that document revolution, the drift of archival traces that disclose forgotten histories and the subtle jostle that animates substances assumed to be mute. We’ll pair weekly readings with screenings of films or video essays, and assignments will include biweekly reading responses, a class presentation and a final research paper.

 

Course:

HR 384  The Great Divide: Human vs. Nature in the Question of Human Rights

Professor:

Oscar Pedraza Vargas

CRN:

15673

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM – 5:30 PM  Barringer 104

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 6

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Philosophy

In the last two decades, an important transformation has occurred in academia and artistic circles, redefining the historic split between nature and human and demanding a radically different relation between humans and the environment. However, these conceptual transformations have not yet fully transpired in other fields, including human rights institutions, public policy making or global political discussions. In fact, environmental concerns are still largely defined by the relevance that the human, as a political and ontological category, has in relation to the environment at risk. In other words, the human continue to subordinate the environment, defining the degrees and possibilities to the value the relative importance of environmental crises at a global scale. This course will interrogate the making and unmaking of the ontological divide between human and nature, stressing the conceptual, political and material challenges that human rights and environmental activists face in their work when negotiating with governments, international courts, corporations, aid agencies, NGOs, art venues and other sites of contention and creative possibilities. Therefore, the course will engage with a diverse range of analytical objects (from scholarly literature to artistic interventions) to discuss the practices and discourses that aim at redefining the ontological and material subordination of nature by the human. During the semester we will pay attention to conceptual, methodological and aesthetics devices aimed at this reorganization of the human-nature relation, and students will work in a case study discussing artistic or grassroots interventions related to the subject of this course. Assignments include reading responses, in-class presentation, and final research paper.

 

Course:

HR 386  The Crime of Indifference

Professor:

Gilles Peress  

CRN:

15810

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Hegeman 106

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

The 1990s Balkan conflicts, a defining moment in Europe’s history, represent a tipping point in international justice.  The global response emphasized either historical hatreds and the legacy of blood, and therefore the futility of intervention, or the urgency and assumed efficacy of intervention to stop crimes against humanity and genocide. In this new class, we will go beyond this shallow choice and posit the following at the convergence of the two narratives: can we at last both acknowledge the legacy of blood and history, understand the clash of civilizations a la Huntington, map the fault line, and at the same time ask the profoundly ethical question: is the legacy of blood a sufficient rational to commit ourselves a crime, the crime of indifference by abandoning these populations to death in the hundreds of thousands, to rape and unimaginable torture? It is the exploration and the definition of that Crime of Indifference, both in national and international law, that will be the defining thread of this class.  Readings will be drawn from historical, journalistic, and eyewitness accounts of the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s; reports by human rights organizations and activists; media, film, and photographic accounts of events; and the proceedings and decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. We will also be joined by several witnesses, activists, and experts.

 

Course:

HR 388  The Death Penalty in the United States: Draconian or Necessary?

Professor:

Jacqueline Baillargeon  

CRN:

15812

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Henderson Computer Annex 106

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

This course will review the complex history of the death penalty in the United States, from colonial times through the present, with an overview of the social and legal justifications for capital punishment. We will discuss the legal procedures involved in the death penalty today, from charging through execution, including the significant roles played by the victims’ family, prosecutor, defense attorney, trial and appellate judges, jury, and executioner. We will explore some historical and contemporary controversies surrounding the administration of the death penalty, including potential innocence, juveniles, people with intellectual disabilities or mental illness, methods of execution, race and gender biases, costs, and deterrence. Last but not least, we will examine the death penalty in an international context. Where is the death penalty still in use in the 21st century, and where has it been abolished? We’ll look at movements to end the death penalty both in the US and abroad. Films, judicial opinions, legal scholarship, news accounts of executions, and death row autobiographies are among the sources we will turn to in an effort to understand the historical and contemporary meanings of the death penalty.

 

Course:

HR 389  Disability Art & Politics: Crip Time & Life at Law’s Limits

Professor:

Constantina Zavitsanos  

CRN:

15930

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      2:00 PM – 4:20 PM Center for Curatorial Studies SEM

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Architecture

What happens when life and death are not thought of in neat opposition? What does crip time do with the built environment, or the construct of Cartesian space itself which separates mind from body while undergirding key notions for the temporal? What material resist may disability offer the formal and conceptual arrangement of space and time (art) amid the laws that organize and govern the polis (politics)? This course traces the historical and ongoing struggle for disability rights in the colonized United States, while simultaneously questioning the framework of rights-based discourse and its legislative contingencies. We will think through disability representation, rights, and the right to opacity via a survey of cultural production in Disability Arts, and highlight the resistance to the violences of Vagrancy laws, Black Codes, the Ugly Laws, Anti-touch Laws, Stop & Frisk™, and other racist-eugenic logics, including “public health”, amid the latest pandemic . Our inquiry into concepts of confinement, quarantine, curfew, incarceration, asylum, austerity and enclosure will stay with disability culture, crip love, queer and trans abundance, and the everprescenient black outdoors that remain before and before every juridical turn. We will be guided by openings made in Disability Studies, Trans Studies, Black Studies, Disability Justice, and Disability Arts that gather in the struggle for and beyond rights, toward both the onto-epistemological understanding of disability and the real lived experience of disabled people. Constanina Zavitsanos is the 2021-22 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism. This is a graduate class offered by the MA program at the Center for Curatorial Studies and is open by special arrangement to qualified undergraduates.

 

Course:

HR 390  Disability Art & Aesthetics: Extra-Visuality & Non-locality

Professor:

Constantina Zavitsanos  

CRN:

15956

Schedule/Location:

 Thurs      2:00 PM – 4:20 PM Center for Curatorial Studies SEM

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

What “vision” does Visual Studies hold for the proliferation of extra-visual artworks that comprise both its histories and futures? How are “images” produced beyond the notion of sightedness? How might we deform social spaces that continually segregate audiences along an axis of dis/ability? What might incapacity and nonlocality offer art and artworks in dislodging the specificity of both site and sight? What happens at the specifically visual limit of surveillance amid racial global capital? This course surveys the field of cultural production and art historical works that have resisted the forms and primacy of ocularcentrism, while seeking to elaborate strategies in accessibility – often latent to production by D/deaf, Blind, and Disabled artists – for all audiences. Concepts will move with and through hapticality, pathology, contagion, heritability, reproduction, reparation, debt, speculation, spectrality, prematurity, death, and social life as theorized in Aesthetic theory, Black Studies, Queer & Trans Studies, Disability Studies, Performance Studies, Sci-fi, and Quantum Theory. This is a graduate class offered by the MA program at the Center for Curatorial Studies and is open by special arrangement to qualified undergraduates.

 

 

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Course:

ANTH 239  Action Research: Social Service, Community Organizing, and Anthropology

Professor:

Duff Morton  

CRN:

15575

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 305

     Fri   8:30 AM - 12:30 PM  Internship

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 10

Crosslists: American Studies; Human Rights; Political Studies

 

Course:

ANTH 295  Anthropology of Law

Professor:

Naoko Kumada  

CRN:

15657

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 20

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ANTH 324  Doing Ethnography

Professor:

Maria Sonevytsky  

CRN:

15580

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 302

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 12

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

ANTH 349  Political Ecology

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki  

CRN:

15525

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

 

Course:

ANTH 369  Middle Eastern Diasporas

Professor:

Jeff Jurgens  

CRN:

15579

Schedule/Location:

Mon       9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

ARCH 221  Institutions for Planetary Fictions

Professor:

Ross Adams  

CRN:

15870

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      10:10 AM – 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 12

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Course:

ARCH 240  Architectural Entanglements with Labor

Professor:

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco  

CRN:

15869

Schedule/Location:

 Tue   Fri   1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 18

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

ARCH 322  Lexicon of Everyday Futures

Professor:

Betsy Clifton

CRN:

15868

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     10:10 AM – 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

        Fri   10:10 AM – 12:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Studio Art

 

Course:

ART 126 ED Mapping: You Are Here

Professor:

Ellen Driscoll  

CRN:

15887

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     10:10 AM – 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts 141/149

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 12

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

ART 250 DM Extended Media II: Public Private Address

Professor:

Dave McKenzie  

CRN:

15471

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts 161

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslisted: Human Rights

 

Course:

ARTS 309  Vibrant Matter: Archives of Contestation and Reanimation

Professor:

Krista Caballero  

CRN:

15926

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 6:30 PM New Annandale House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

CC 108 A  The Courage to Be: Achilles, Socrates, Antigone, Mother Courage, Barbara Lee

Professor:

Thomas Bartscherer 

CRN:

15983

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Albee 106

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Human Rights; Literature

 

Course:

CC 108 D  The Courage to be: Courage, Cowardice, and the Colonial Encounter

Professor:

Tara Needham  

CRN:

15986

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Barringer 104

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Literature; Human Rights

 

Course:

DAN 361  Dancing Migrations: Tracing Mexico's Points of Access and Departure

Professor:

Yebel Gallegos  

CRN:

15561

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher PAC Conference/Nureyev Studio

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Course:

ECON 227  The Right to Employment

Professor:

Pavlina Tcherneva  

CRN:

15588

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Campus Center WEIS

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 20

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights; Sociology

 

Course:

EUS 323  Making the State of the Planet Accessible:Understanding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) #6 Reports

Professor:

Beate Liepert  

CRN:

15884

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     10:10 AM – 12:30 PM Olin Languages Center 120

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 16

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

FREN 306  Representing Violence: The Algerian War and its Afterlives

Professor:

Gabriella Lindsay  

CRN:

15546

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:30 PM – 5:50 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

FL Foreign Languages and Lit D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

GER 214  What Makes Us Think? Hannah Arendt, Critical Judgment and Moments of Crisis

Professor:

Thomas Bartscherer

CRN:

15957

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed    6:40 PM – 8:00 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value    

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

Crosslists: Human Rights; Literature

 

Course:

HIST 136  Surveying Displacement and Migration in the United States

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth  

CRN:

15601

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    6:40 PM – 8:00 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

HIST 152  Latin America: Independence, Sovereignty, and Revolution

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez  

CRN:

15602

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: American Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Course:

HIST 185  The Making of the Modern Middle East

Professor:

Omar Cheta  

CRN:

15604

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

HIST 2255  Shari’a and the History of Middle Eastern Society

Professor:

Omar Cheta  

CRN:

15607

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies; Study of Religions

 

Course:

HIST 298  Making Silicon Valley Histories

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth  

CRN:

15662

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM – 6:30 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

LAIS 204  Latin American and Caribbean Revolutions

Professor:

Miles Rodriguez  

CRN:

15663

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: American Studies; Global & International Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT/MES 2030  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The History of Black-Palestinian Solidarity

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15965

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 205

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 2

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies; Literature

 

Course:

LIT 2381  Translating Tact

Professor:

Thomas Wild  

CRN:

15935

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM – 6:30 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: German Studies; Human Rights; Written Arts

 

Course:

LIT 322  Representing the Unspeakable

Professor:

Marina van Zuylen  

CRN:

15727

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 307

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 3251  Climate Fiction

Professor:

Daniel Williams  

CRN:

15733

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

LIT 3356  Modernism and Fascism: Cultural Heritage and Memory

Professor:

Franco Baldasso  

CRN:

15724

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Human Rights; Italian Studies

 

Course:

MES/PS 302  Muslim Political Thought and Anticolonialism

Professor:

Pinar Kemerli  

CRN:

15681

Schedule/Location:

    Fri   12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Philosophy; Political Studies; Study of Religions

 

Course:

PHIL 124  Introduction to Ethics

Professor:

James Brudvig  

CRN:

15623

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 21

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

PHIL 129  Philosophy of Slavery

Professor:

Jay Elliott  

CRN:

15624

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM – 9:50 AM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Classical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PHIL 360  Feminist Philosophy

Professor:

Daniel Berthold  

CRN:

15632

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 16

Crosslists: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PHOT 330  How To Be Anxious: Critical Issues in Imagemaking

Professor:

Farah Al Qasimi  

CRN:

15865

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Woods 128

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 10

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 104  International Relations

Professor:

Michelle Murray  

CRN:

15635

Schedule/Location:

Mon    Fri   10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 25

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 109  Political Economy

Professor:

Sanjib Baruah  

CRN:

15637

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 209  Civic Engagement

Professor:

Jonathan Becker  + Erin Cannan

CRN:

15750

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Barringer 104

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 222  Latin America:Politics/Society

Professor:

Omar Encarnacion  

CRN:

15639

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 18

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights; Latin American/Iberian Studies

 

Course:

PS 2251  Dissent! Politics, Justice, Dignity

Professor:

Pinar Kemerli  

CRN:

15640

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     8:30 AM – 9:50 AM OSUN

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 14

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 241  Politics and Violence

Professor:

Pinar Kemerli  

CRN:

15641

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 203

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 20

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 251  Political Organizing: Theory and Practice

Professor:

Mie Inouye  

CRN:

15680

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Hegeman 106

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 273  Diplomacy in International Politics

Professor:

Frederic Hof  

CRN:

15643

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 305

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 18

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 314  Political Economy of Development

Professor:

Sanjib Baruah  

CRN:

15644

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    9:10 AM – 11:30 AM Olin 306

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 385 Civic Action and Research

Professor:

Jonathan Becker + Erin Cannan

CRN:

15967

Schedule/Location:

  Tue    8:30 – 9:50 AM

 Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PS 393  Race and Gender in US Constitutional Development

Professor:

Simon Gilhooley  

CRN:

15682

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

PSY 120  Data and Democracy: Statistics and Data Science for Engaged Citizenship in the 21st Century

Professor:

Richard Lopez 

CRN:

15959

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    8:30 AM – 9:50 AM Reem Kayden Center 115

Distributional Area:

MC Mathematics and Computing  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

REL 211  Digital Dharma: Buddhism and New Media

Professor:

Dominique Townsend  

CRN:

15617

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 101

Distributional Area:

MBV Meaning, Being, Value  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Experimental Humanities; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 120  Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality

Professor:

Yuval Elmelech  

CRN:

15646

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM Hegeman 204

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 213  Sociological Theory

Professor:

Laura Ford  

CRN:

15647

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Olin Language Center 115

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 224  Punishment, Prisons, & Policing

Professor:

Allison McKim  

CRN:

15648

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM – 1:10 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

SOC 333  Tricks of the Trade: Qualitative Research Practicum

Professor:

Allison McKim  

CRN:

15649

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 303

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 12

Crosslists: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

THTR 212  Writing Political Theater

Professor:

Nilaja Sun Gordon  

CRN:

15848

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    10:10 AM – 1:10 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center 0

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

THTR 371  Curating Performance: A Festival About Food Justice

Professor:

Gideon Lester  + Tania El Khoury

CRN:

15850

Schedule/Location:

Mon       1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center STUDIO NO.

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Human Rights

 

Course:

WRIT 327  Great Political Essays

Professor:

Masha Gessen  

CRN:

15765

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslisted: Human Rights