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The Politics of Regret scheduled as part of the Politics, Philosophy and Economics program. open to undergraduate students lecture/seminar (1/1) https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13329 Course Outline This course examines past injustices as central to contemporary world politics. We begin with questions of guilt, trauma, and responsibility before moving to forms of transitional justice, be it truth commissions, trials, or lustrations. Significant attention is also being paid to official and unofficial apologies, which have stirred much attention in the past few years. While part of this class is theoretical, we will examine (and debate) issues using examples from Europe and North America. As part of this course, students learn:
Schedule & Required Reading: Class 1 (Feb 22): Introductory Class
Class 2 (Feb 29): Trauma, Guilt, and Responsibility
Class 3 (Mar 7): Is the Past Another Country? Tony Judt. “The Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe.” Daedalus 121, no. 4 (1992): 83–118.
Class 4 (Mar 14): Trials and Transitional Justice Pinchevski, Amit – Liebes, Tamar. “Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial.” Public Culture 22, no. 2 (2010): 265–291.
Class 5 (Mar 21): Truth Commissions Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm. “When Truth Commissions Improve Human Rights.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4, no. 3 (2010): 457–76.
Mar 28: Public Holiday
Class 6 (Apr 4): Lustration and Vetting Monica Nalepa. Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010:1–30.
April 11: Reading Week/Pitch Your Project/No Class
Class 7 (Apr 25): Reparations and Compensations Pablo de Greiff. “Introduction – Repairing the past: Compensation for victims of human rights violations.” The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Class 8 (May 2): Emotions and Actions Elster, Jon. Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004: 216–44.
Class 9 (May 9): Public Apologies and National Membership Nobles, Melissa. The Politics of Official Apologies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008: 1–41.
Class 10 (May 16): Minimizing Responsibility Kampf, Zohar. “Public (non-) Apologies: The Discourse of Minimizing Responsibility.” Journal of Pragmatics 41, no. 11 (2009): 2257–70.
Class 11 (May 23): The Social Drama of Apology Kampf, Zohar. “Journalists as Actors in Social Dramas of Apology.” Journalism 12, no. 1 (2011): 71–87.
Class 12 (May 30): Essay
Examination Active Participation: 20% In-Class Presentation: 30% Essay: 50% Poslední úprava: Kubátová Hana, M.A., Ph.D. (10.04.2024)
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