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SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
Part One: Theories of Violence and the Problem of Rationality
1

Course Introduction

Screenings:

Doing Anthropology: Thoughts on Fieldwork From Three Research Sites

The Story of Human Rights

 
2 Theoretical Foundations: Crowds, Ritual, or Demonic Males?  
3

Understanding the Unthinkable: The Holocaust

Student presentation

Reflection paper 1 due
Part Two: Human Rights, Rationality, and Relativism Post WWII
4

Rights Talk in Western Culture: Whose Rights, Whose Rationality?

Student presentation

 
5

Universalism versus Cultural Relativism

Student presentation

 
Part Three: The Practice of Human Rights
6

The Birth of Amnesty International

Student presentation

Short mid-term paper due
7

Sex and Gender Violence in Ireland

Student presentation

 
8

Argentina

Student presentation

Short mid-term papers returned with comments
9

Rwanda

Student presentation

 
10

Palestine
Guest speaker: Sa'ed Adel Atshan, Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies, the Watson Institute at Brown University

Student presentation

Reflection paper 2 due
11

South Africa

Student presentation

 
12

Haiti, Part 1

Student presentation

 
13

Haiti, Part 2 and Course Conclusion

Student presentation

Final paper due