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GSAH 310: The Imagination of Human Rights

GSAH 310: The Imagination of Human Rights. October 22, 2012. The Situation Room Photo (May 2, 2012). Discussion Forum Responses.

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GSAH 310: The Imagination of Human Rights

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  1. GSAH 310:The Imagination of Human Rights October 22, 2012

  2. The Situation Room Photo (May 2, 2012)

  3. Discussion Forum Responses Take a look at the last paragraph of Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others. When she poses the question, "Why should they seek our gaze?", whom is she referring to with "they"? Whom, for that matter, does "we" refer to, when "we" are watching horrifying images?

  4. War in Kosovo (1998-9) • The War in Kosovo • Spring 1998 – June 1999 • Throughout the 90s, Serb military forces attack Albanian community in Kosovo, Kosovo Liberation Army retaliates • Conflict escalated in Spring of 1998, NATO decides at this point to intervene, U.S. joins in 1999 during airstrikes • Ended with Kumanovo Treaty (“NATO's role in relation to the conflict in Kosovo”; “History of the war in Kosovo”)

  5. The Photo Op “Cameras create a space and time of appearance in which things happen” (Ersoy)

  6. Works Cited • “Art of Kosovo refugee children depicts horrors of war.” CNN. May 22, 1999. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/22/kosovo.children.art/. • Ersoy, Oezge. “Interview with Thomas Keenan by OezgeErsoy.” Art Territories. March 24, 2011. http://www.artterritories.net/?page_id=1832. • “History of the war in Kosovo.” Center for Balkan Development. April, 1999. http://www.balkandevelopment.org/edu_kos.html. • Jansen, G. Richard. “Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo: An Abbreviated History: An Opening for the The Islamic Jihad in Europe.” Colorado State University. July 22, 2008. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~grjan/kosovohistory.html. • “NATO's role in relation to the conflict in Kosovo.” NATO’s role in Kosovo. http://www.nato.int/kosovo/history.htm.

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