Fall Quarter 2025

Fall Quarter 2025

HMR 001 — Human Wrongs/Human Rights
Keith Watenpaugh

HMR 134 — Human Rights
Keith Watenpaugh

HMR 140A — Human Rights & the Popular Imagination
Lucia Luna Victoria Indacochea

HMR 190 — Human Rights Seminar - Peace, Violence, and Revolution in the Andes
Lucia Luna Victoria Indacochea

This upper-level seminar will examine the factors leading to the internal armed conflicts in Colombia and Peru during the late 20th century. The decades-long civil wars between left-wing guerrillas and corrupt governments shaped the political and social worlds of these post-conflict countries. The course will examine the cases studies in-depth, as well as investigate theories on violence, revolution, and transitional justice. Students will analyze civil society’s efforts to hold the guerrillas, paramilitary groups, and state accountable for human rights abuses, as well as the remaining fights to end drug trafficking, political corruption, and violence. The class takes a multidisciplinary approach incorporating texts from anthropologists, historians, political scientists and other disciplines.

This course will also interest students seeking to learn about environmental rights, gendered violence during and after periods of conflict, and memory in Latin America.

 

A flyer for HMR 190, with a photo of grafiti