Introduction
June 14, 3:30-5:30, E255
Readings:
Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), excerpt from chapter one.
Paul Kramer, “The Water Cure: Debating Torture and Counterinsurgency—a Century Ago,” The New Yorker, Feb. 25, 2008.
Activity: Reading exercise PowerPoint
Fall
Sept. 12, 3:30-5:30pm, E255 – “Meanings of War”
Session Leaders: David Hill, Shannon Proctor, & Stephen Clark
Readings:
Timothy Kudo, “How We Learned to Kill,” New York Times, Feb. 27, 2015.
Pete Kilner, “The Military Leader’s Role in Mitigating Moral Injury,” Thoughts of a Soldier-Ethicist blog, November 11, 2016.
Alexander Moseley, “The Philosophy of War,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Oct. 17, 3:30-6pm, visiting speaker (Chris Hedges), E500
Nov. 14, 3:30-5:30pm, E255 – “Mediations of War”
Session Leaders: Chris Schmidt & Sarah Raymundo
Readings:
saludabenedicto, “The Bells of Balangiga: Resonances of the Anti-Imperialist Armed Resistance,” Salud y Benedicto, July 3, 2012.
Dec. 12, 3:30-5:30pm, E255
Session Leaders: Sarada Rauch & Dana Trusso
Readings:
Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Institute on Statelessness and Conclusion, Excerpts from The World’s Stateless
Mid-year Institute
Feb. 9, 10am-1pm, E500 – “Knowledge Production and War”
Session Leaders: LaRose Parris & Maria Hart
Reading:
Lewis Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2008), preface & introduction.
Spring
Mar. 13, 3:30-5:30pm, E255 – “Technologies of War: Nuclear War”
Session Leaders: Tomoaki Imamichi & Robin Kietlinski
Common Reading:
John Pilger (2016) Article: “A world war has begun. Break the silence.”
Assignments (3 groups, 3 different assignments):
Peter Jennings 1995 Documentary: “Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped” (70 min)
Steven Okazaki 2007 Documentary: “White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” (90 min. Also available on Amazon Prime)
NYTimes 2017 Documentary:“From North Korea with Dread” (26 minute video); plus read Foreign Policy article “Kim Jung Un is a Survivor, Not a Madman”
Apr. 10, 3:30-6pm, visiting speaker (Lisa Stampnitzky), E500
May 15, 3:30-5:30pm, E255 – “Is It Over When It’s Over?: Postwar Transitions in Guatemala and Beyond.”
Session Leaders: Rebecca Tally, Zena Cooper, & Colleen Eren
Readings:
Deborah T. Levenson, “What Happened to the Revolution? Guatemala City’s Maras from Life to Death,” in War By Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala. (eds .McAllister and Nelson, 2013).
Guatemala: Never Again!, The Official Report of the Human Rights Office, Archdiocese of Guatemala, Excerpt from Chapter 9, “The Methodology of Horror”: 156-161.
(Should you wish to read Chapter 9 in full, you can access it here.)
Optional: https://pilac.law.harvard.edu/the-goals-of-war-and-wars-end/
Additional presentation by Maria Hart
Reading:
June 12, 11:30am-1pm: feedback, presentations, and wrap up
