This course provides students with the critical tools needed to understand the use of media and its impact on the recognition and restitution of human rights claims. We examine various visual practices (documentation, archiving, witnessing, advocacy, and surveillance) and a range of visual imagery (video, photography, drawings, and monuments).

Antirequisite(s): the former MIT 3772F/G if taken in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.