HRTS542

040615

This course explores a range of art forms, such as visual arts, performance, theatre, puppetry, music, and dance, as productions and spaces for human rights documentation, advocacy, and empowerment. Students will meet and talk online with guest artists and arts advocates who have crafted responses to human rights issues that cannot be \"spoken of\" fully or compellingly except through use of artistic or performative actions/creations. Students will examine the conceptualization, execution, and personal/social/ political/historical impacts of their projects. Key issues to be covered include testimony, witnessing, representation, memory, and trauma. Students will be involved in the creation of a human rights-focused arts project during the class.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate