Lecture and Seminar Programme
Week |
Section |
Seminar Topic |
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| Autumn Term | 1 |
Section 1: Intellectual |
Antecedents I– Liberalism, the enlightenment, natural rights and the rights of man |
| 2 |
Antecedents II – Socialism & economic and social rights |
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| 3 | ‘The Search for Humanity’ – Global Government and the ‘Rights of Man’ before the Second World War | ||
| 4 | ‘The End of Civilization: The Rise of Rights’: The Second World War, reconstruction and human rights | ||
| 5 | ‘Parliament of Man’: The United Nations, Human Rights and the beginnings of the Cold War | ||
| 6 | Reading Week - no lecture or seminar | ||
| 7 | ‘Set the People free?’ Decolonization and the right to self-determination | ||
| 8 | ‘The Last Utopia?’ Human Rights and the end of the Cold War | ||
| 9 | The Age of Rights or the Militarization of Rights? Human rights agreement in the post-Cold War world | ||
| 10 | Section 2: The Global Human Rights Movement |
What is was the ‘human rights movement’? Global movement activism post 1945 | |
| Spring Term | 1 | Transforming nations - Civil liberties and human rights politics in the British speaking world | |
| 2 | Transnational Advocacy - Amnesty International | ||
| 3 | Individual Rights, small nations and development - decolonization movements and human rights | ||
| 4 | Are Women’s Rights Human Rights? The global politics of the women’s rights movement | ||
| 5 | An alternative vision of rights? Freedom politics, conservatism and the rediscovery of human rights | ||
| 6 | Reading Week - no lecture or seminar | ||
| 7 | The Right to Shop – The international consumer movement | ||
| 8 | Which rights are right? Development NGOs, world poverty and rights-based activism | ||
| 9 | Section 3: Rights Politics in Perspective |
Relativism and rights | |
| 10 | Nation states and universal rights | ||
| Summer Term | 1 | Revision | Revision |
| 2 | Revision |