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December 9, 2005

An unprecedented collaboration between museums and universities, the conference brought together world-renowned photojournalists, artists, writers, and curators, including Susan Meiselas, Alfredo Jaar, Samantha Powers, and Philip Gourevitch, to explore the increasingly urgent questions provoked by photographs of atrocity in contemporary visual culture. Participants explored questions of response and responsibility toward the ubiquity of such images. The event was accompanied by an exhibition on atrocity photographs in the media prepared by students at The Graduate Center. It was held in support and with the presence of Amnesty International, and was co-sponsored by The Humanities Research Institute; The University of Leeds, UK; The Graduate Center, CUNY; The British Academy; and Amnesty International.