Syllabus
There will be one 2-hour seminar per week.
There are 3 Seminar Groups.
Thursday 09:00 - 11:00, OC1.02
Term 1
Week 2: Introduction: Human Rights in History
Week 3: The Consequences of Colonialism and Rights
Week 4:Reform, Resistance and Rebellion in the Eighteenth-Century
Week 5: Nation, Sovereignty and Civil and Political Rights
Week 6: Reading Week. No seminar.
Week 8:Rights in Reform: Liberalism, Popular Liberalism and Informal Empire
Week 9: Liberalism in crisis: The Social Question, Migration, Citizenship and Rights
Week 10: Social Rights from Above and Below: Socialism, Nationalism and Populism
Term 2
Week 1: Social Justice, Solidarity, Liberation and Anti-Imperialism during the Cold War
Week 3: Indigenous Rights, Neoliberalism and the Right to Development
Week 4: Transitional Justice and Memory
Week 5: Gender Identity, Sexuality and Rights
Week 6: Reading Week. No seminar.
Week 7: Multiculturalism Revisited: Rights for Afro-Latin Americans
Week 8: Human Rights and Environmental Rights
Week 9: Democratisation: Violence, inequality, migrant rights and children’s rights
Week 10: Citizenship and Rights
Term 3
Week 1: Essay Editing Workshop