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Seminar
SoSe 14: Global History and Human Rights in the Modern Age
Alexandra Przyrembel
Comments
The history of human rights is currently facing a boom. While most of the literature identifies the 1970s as a turning point in the politics of human rights, this seminar will trace legal discourses, the role of the state, humanitarian strategies, and public debates back to the 18th century. By focusing particularly on social movements (like the abolitionists or Amnesty International) which fought for human rights in different historical contexts, this seminar aims at understanding the complex and diverse meaning of human rights in the Modern Age.
Recommended Reading: Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge, 2010; Hunt, Lynn. Inventing human rights : a history. 1st ed. New York, NY [u.a.]: Norton, 2008; Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, 2001. Rodogno, Davide. Against massacre: Humanitarian interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914 : the emergence of a European concept and international practice. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012; Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006. close
Recommended Reading: Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge, 2010; Hunt, Lynn. Inventing human rights : a history. 1st ed. New York, NY [u.a.]: Norton, 2008; Ignatieff, Michael. Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, 2001. Rodogno, Davide. Against massacre: Humanitarian interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914 : the emergence of a European concept and international practice. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012; Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2014-04-16 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-04-23 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-04-30 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-05-07 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-05-14 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-05-21 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-05-28 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-06-04 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-06-11 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-06-18 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-06-25 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-07-02 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-07-09 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2014-07-16 12:00 - 14:00