Dr. Terretta

Bienvenu à l’espace discussion du cours HIS3585 (automne 2020)

Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant – Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu Ici ce situent les blogs conçus et créés par les expert.e.s d’une ou des lecture(s)/source(s) à préparer pour les cours Histoire de la décolonisation de l’Afrique francophone. En quelques paragraphes concis, présentez le.s texte.s. Identifiez le.s auteur(s) que vous présentez. Expliquez en survol le contexte historiqueContinueContinue reading “Bienvenu à l’espace discussion du cours HIS3585 (automne 2020)”

Migration Managerialism

Nabil Iosif Morad visits the house where 3 women travelling alone with their children are temporarily staying while waiting for their family re-unification claim to be approved. Coming from the cities of Homs and Damascus the women left Syria with their children and risked the dangerous journey in a bit to join their husbands whoContinueContinue reading “Migration Managerialism”

Canada ‘urgently’ discussing asylum seeker deportation issue with U.S.

Canada ‘urgently’ discussing asylum seeker deportation issue with U.S. — Read on http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5512261

Gratitude, COVID-19 and Moral Blackmail/ Moral Risk

A Turkish paramilitary police officer carries the body of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, found washed ashore near the Turkish resort of Bodrum in September 2015. 19 March 2020 Welcome to our online discussion of today’s readings. I hope you all are doing well and trying to stay sane as our (North American) society experiencesContinueContinue reading “Gratitude, COVID-19 and Moral Blackmail/ Moral Risk”

Protected: Takeaways from 8 Feb Discussion

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Protected: Approaching Roger Baldwin’s The Capital of Men Without a Country as a Primary Source, Questions prepared by Pr. Terretta

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How did human rights become what they are today?

Photo by Richard Barnes. State of Exception Exhibit. This semester we will subject the concept of universal human rights to historical inquiry. We will consider how human rights emerged before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted at the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. And we will consider whatContinueContinue reading “How did human rights become what they are today?”