Human Rights in the Southern Cone: Spotlight on Argentina
University of Connecticut Early College Experience Workshop (December 12, 2014)
Units
Curriculum Introduction and Credits
Unit 1: Human Rights
Focus: current events, human rights, history overview of the Dirty War (DW), photography
Unit 2: Freedom
Focus: censorship, exile, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and literature
Unit 3: The Repressed and the Repressors
Focus: history, human rights, literature, politics, testimonials
Unit 4: Truth and Justice
Focus: history, politics, primary source documents
Unit 5: Crime Wave in the Southern Cone
Focus: declassified documents, international political affairs, political cartoon study
Unit 6: Memory is a Verb
Focus on concluding activites: activist art, collective memory, healing from trauma, legacy of the Dirty War (DW), political cartoons, street art
Video: Images of Argentina’s rich culture, contrasted with the dark side of history from 1976-1983. (Click below)
Created by Kathryn Cooke & Shilpa Rajbahak, Branford High School, Branford, CT, Class of 2015.
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Web Designers and Research Assistants
2021-to present: Hanna Bloomquist, Andrew Bono, Samantha Esposito, Joshua Josephy-Zack, Mia Josephy Zack, Sushant Kunwar, Alex Sweeney
2020_2021 Riyanshu Bam, Hanna Bloomquist, Ashley Duong, Samantha Esposito, Joshua Josephy-Zack, Mia Josephy Zack, Abigail Pawlowicz
2019-2020 Jason Hackett, Joshua Josephy-Zack, Mia Josephy-Zack
Photography Contributions
Special thanks to Caitlin Daley, Branford High School, Class of 2016, for generously sharing photographs of the disappeared at the Museo de la Memoria, Plaza San Martin, Córdoba, Argentina. The Museo de la Memoria is the actual police building that was a clandestined centre for detention and torture during the Dirty War 1976-1983.