Nathaniel Berman, “‘The Sacred Conspiracy’: Religion, Nationalism, and the Crisis of Internationalism”
Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture, Brown University
Discussant: Ayça Çubukçu, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Discussion of selected readings by Antony Anghie
Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law: 13-52, 65-114, [310-20]
2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Discussion of selected readings by Hannah Arendt
“The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man” in Origins of Totalitarianism, and Eichmann in Jerusalem: 3-20, 234-279
2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Joseph Slaughter, “Pathetic Fallacies: Personification, Human Rights, and the Humanities”
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Discussant: Kandice Chuh, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center
2 – 4pm, Room 3212 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Talal Asad, “Human Atrocities, Human Rights” and “Thinking about Terrorism and Just War”
Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Discussant: Ahmed Sharif, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room C205 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Jean Comaroff, “Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony”
Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Discussant: Samuel Shearer, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room 8400 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
David Scott, “The Theory of Haiti”
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Discussant: Mark Drury, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room 7314 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Susan Buck-Morss, “Sovereign Right and the Global Left”
Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Discussant: Neil Agarwal, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room 7314 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Martti Koskenniemi, “The Fate of Public International Law”
Professor of International Law & Director, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
Discussant: Ahilan Kadirgamar, doctoral student, anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room 6494 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
Discussion of Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch”
Discussants: Amiel Melnick and Ahilan Kadirgamar, doctoral students, anthropology,
CUNY Graduate Center
12 – 2pm, Room 7314 (Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue)
