The Human Rights Curriculum Development Project

Spring 2008 Agenda/Schedule

Lighthouse Paper:

"Human Rights in the English Department" by James Dawes, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism, Macalester College

Agenda

Friday, April 11th - Welcome Session

Reception—7:30 p.m.
Dinner—8:00 p.m. Heartland Restaurant 1806 St. Clair Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Phone: 651.699.3536

Saturday, April 12 - Morning Session

8:30—10:30 a.m. "Literary and Rhetorical Perspectives on Human Rights," Moderated by Mike Hemesath Professor of Economics, Carleton College
- Lighthouse paper “Human Rights in the English Department” - James Dawes, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism Macalester College
10:30—10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45—12:15 p.m. “Jurisdictional Identities” Bradin Cormack Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
- Additional Readings: Prologue and Chapter Six from Bradin Cormack, A Power To Do Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Afternoon Session

1:15 - 3:00 p.m. Non-conventional texts
- “Film & Literature: Re-presenting Human Rights” - Jöelle Vitiello Associate Professor and Chair of French and Francophone Studies, Macalester College
  - Readings: Susan Slyomovicz, Performing Human Rights in Morocco, Intro, Chap. 5, Chap. 7
- “Teaching Film-making as a Tool for Human Rights advocacy” - Judy Hoffman Senior Lecturer, Committee on Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago
  - Readings: Bill Nichols, "How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues?"; Jane M. Gaines, "Political Mimesis"
- “Students regard the pain of others: why images are a powerful teaching tool” - Susan Gzesh Senior Lecturer in the Center for International Studies & the College, Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
  - Readings: week 2 of Fall 2007 Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Syllabus
3:00—3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:30—5:00 p.m. Assessing the Human Rights Curriculum Project - Discussion for all participants, coordinated by Susan Gzesh & James Dawes