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It is only recently that human human rights have attracted the attention
of historians. This course will offer an introduction to theoretical and
methdological debates on how to write and interpret the history of human
rights, while also drawing on selected cases studies that have recently
been published.
Due to the format of the class (4 hours per session), each session will
have a workshop-like character. We will discuss the assigned readings
with a strong methodological focus and work with original sources, if
they are available. Each session will be devoted to a case study.
Possible case studies include 1. Human Rights in Germany 2. The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations 3. Gender
and Human Rights 4. Human Rights and the Cold War 5. NGOs and Human
Rights 6. Human Rights as 'Last Utopia'? Overall interpretations of the
history of human rights
A final syllabus will be uploaded to this link by the beginning of
April: http://tinyurl.com/HumanRightsHistory2015
Please note that this course begins in June 2015 and there will be 7
sessions that last four hours (not two)!
Students who are working on this topic for their final thesis are
encouraged to get in touch with me beforehand. I am open to change the
plans in a way to include your topic, if possible. Please email at
sonja.dolinsek.1@hu-berlin.de |
| Literatur |
Brucken, Rowland. A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the
United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953. DeKalb, IL: Northern
Illinois University Press, 2013.
Burke, Roland. Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human
Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Eckel, Jan, and Samuel Moyn. The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the
1970s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Iriye, Akira, Petra Goedde, and William I Hitchcock. The Human Rights
Revolution: An International History. Oxford; New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig. Human Rights in the Twentieth Century.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History, 2007.
Liu, Lydia H. “Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights
around 1948.” Critical Inquiry 40, no. 4 (June 1, 2014): 385–417.
Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard Univ Pr, 2010.
Sachse, Carola, and Atina Grossmann. “Human Rights, Utopias, and Gender
in Twentieth Century Europe.” Central European History 44, no. 01
(2011): 1–12. doi:10.1017/S0008938910001159.
Snyder, Sarah B. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A
Transnational History of the Helsinki Network. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Wildenthal, Lora. The Language of Human Rights in West Germany.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. |
