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SUMMARY:Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism - Thomas
  W. Laqueur (California Berkeley)
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DESCRIPTION:'Rights' and to a lesser degree 'human rights' developed in a 
 variety of explicitly political contexts\; teaching the history of these i
 deas in theory and practice involves examining claims and counter-claims b
 y\, or on behalf of\, rights bearing subjects or their opponents\, in a po
 litical arena. 'Humanitarian' and 'humanitarianism' have on the other hand
  claimed to be above the fray\, to stand for a posture toward humanity tha
 t is politically anodyne. This view has endured despite two centuries of c
 riticism\; it has risen from suspect status in the nineteenth century to i
 nform the thinking of an important part of the human rights community broa
 dly understood. I want to talk about how to negotiate in the classroom the
  tensions between a legalistic and manifestly political account of human r
 ights on the one hand and the possibility of a-political care for human we
 lfare as a moral ideal on the other.\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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