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, PracticesJessica Gienow-Hecht, Sönke Kunkel, and SebastianJobsChapter 1. The Human in Human RightsSuzy KillmisterObjectsChapter 2. Hearts, Minds, and Skulls: The International Debate on the Nature of Humanity in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyMichael L. KrennChapter 3. In Search of Biblical Mesopotamia: Visions of Humanity in US Archaeological Excavations in Iraq,1880–1910Sarah EppingWorkChapter 4. Tensions of “Humanity”: Jewish Philanthropy and Refugee Crises in Eastern Europe,1881–1914Barbara LambauerChapter 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. 1919Andrew M. JohnstonChapter 6. “A New Humanity” for the Poor: Liberation Theology and Visions of Revolutionary Justice in 1960s GuatemalaBetsy KonefalChapter 7. Engineering Empathy: Humanity, Culture, and the Battle against Apartheid in South Africa, 1948–1994Nicholas J. CullSoundsChapter 8. Choreographing Humanity in the 1960s: Maurice Béjart and the Symphony No. 9Stéphanie GonçalvesChapter 9. Musical Humanism:Yehudi Menuhin and UNESCO’s International Music Council,1969–1975Anaïs FléchetChapter 10. “We Are the World”:Visions of Humanity in 1980s Charity SongsTobias HofAfterword: Languages of Common HumanitySiep Stuurman