Category Archives: Human Rights

Human Rights, Immigration, Islam

La burqa et le niqab en France: l’audition de Tariq Ramadan

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Hier, Dr Lynn Hunt a mentionné le problème du voile musulman en France. La burqa et le niqab sont les voiles portées par quelques femmes musulmanes et la cause d’une grande discussion actuelle. Ce problème est très intéressant du point de vue politique, historique, religieux, et social. C’est important que, comme Dr Hunt a dit, nous essayons de voir cette question d’un point de vue français et aussi musulman.

On peut voir l’argument de Tariq Ramadan, un érudit musulman, à l’Assemblée nationale ici. (La vidéo est divisée en 11 parties, et on peut les voir toutes sur Youtube.)

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French Revolution, Human Rights

Inventing Human Rights

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Lynn Hunt will be visiting Duke as part of the Provost’s lecture series on January 19th, and will be visiting our class that day in 326 Allen Building on Duke’s West Campus from 10:05-11:20 to talk about her book Inventing Human Rights (which is our first reading assignment for the semester). It a great deal of attention when it was published in 2007. The eminent U.S. historian Gordon Wood reviewed it in the New York Times, it rated a brief mention in the New Yorker,  and received a range of responses within academic publications. The questions she posed were, as is so often the case in the writing of history, driven at least in part by contemporary events, most particularly the debates about the use of torture that took place in the U.S. in the years after 9/11.  But it also represents the culmination of decades of thinking about the history of rights and revolution. Since the publication of her ground-breaking 1994 book The Family Romance of the French Revolution, she has been one of the leading scholars in the field of European history, and shaped approaches to history by helping to pioneer and showcase the now widespread approaches of cultural history. (You can see a selection of her publications here).

You can watch Lynn Hunt lecture on the book at University of California Santa Barbara below, and see her give a lecture on “Revolutionary Movements” in her class at UCLA in the video below that.

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