AP/HREQ 3020 3.00
Commemoration and Human Rights
This course explores global commemorative gestures and remembrance practices relating to past human rights atrocities. The role of selective memory in the creation of national histories forged in the aftermath of mass violence are examined through truth commissions, museums, and memorials. Both state-sponsored and grassroots commemoration initiatives are considered to understand the relationship between power, historical memory, and human rights.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will deepen their understanding of claims to human rights histories by diverse groups, as well as contestations over such narratives; appreciate the role that imperialism, colonialism, and the emergence of the nation-state have played in shaping the various ways that human rights histories are commemorated; and extend their understanding of the interrelationship between civic memory and sanctioned forms of forgetting.
Prerequisite: 24 credits
Course credit exclusion: Prior to Fall 2019: AP/HREQ/HUMA 3020 3.00 – Rights Commemoration and Human Rights Pedagogy