Violence, Human Rights, and Justice

Calendar

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