Visions of Humanity

Sönke Kunkel is assistant professor of North American history at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published widely on the history of humanitarianism and development and is the author of Empire of Pictures: Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy (Berghahn, 2015).

Introduction: Visions of Humanity: Actors, Culture, Practices

Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Sönke Kunkel, and SebastianJobs



Chapter 1. The Human in Human Rights

Suzy Killmister



Objects



Chapter 2. Hearts, Minds, and Skulls: The International Debate on the Nature of Humanity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Michael L. Krenn



Chapter 3. In Search of Biblical Mesopotamia: Visions of Humanity in US Archaeological Excavations in Iraq,1880–1910

Sarah Epping



Work



Chapter 4. Tensions of “Humanity”: Jewish Philanthropy and Refugee Crises in Eastern Europe,1881–1914

Barbara Lambauer



Chapter 5. “The Whole Organism of Humanity”: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Campaign for Women’s Rights as Universal Rights, c. 1919

Andrew M. Johnston



Chapter 6. “A New Humanity” for the Poor: Liberation Theology and Visions of Revolutionary Justice in 1960s Guatemala

Betsy Konefal



Chapter 7. Engineering Empathy: Humanity, Culture, and the Battle against Apartheid in South Africa, 1948–1994

Nicholas J. Cull



Sounds



Chapter 8. Choreographing Humanity in the 1960s: Maurice Béjart and the Symphony No. 9

Stéphanie Gonçalves



Chapter 9. Musical Humanism:Yehudi Menuhin and UNESCO’s International Music Council,1969–1975

Anaïs Fléchet



Chapter 10. “We Are the World”:Visions of Humanity in 1980s Charity Songs

Tobias Hof



Afterword: Languages of Common Humanity

Siep Stuurman