Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Aug. 28, 30) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Sep. 4, 6) (Jones, p.1-38; Valentino, p.1-29; assigned readings)
Unit 3 Colonial and Imperial Genocides. War, and Social Revolution. The Perpetrators and the Public.
(Sep. 11, 13) (Jones, p.39-63; Valentino, p.30-65; assigned readings)
Unit 4 State and Empire. War and Revolution. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing.
(Sep. 18, 20, 22) (Jones, p.64-148; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 5 Rwanda. The African Background to Genocide. Genocidal Frenzy. Congo. Darfur. Class Discussion.
(Sep. 25, 27) (Jones, p.346-379; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
Unit 6 The Armenian Genocide. War, Massacre, and Deportation. Imperial and National State.
(Oct. 2, 4*) (Jones, p.149-187; Valentino, p.152-166; assigned readings)
* MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 7 Blood Lands: Eastern Europe and Russia. Migration, mass killing, war, revolution, insurrection, and pogrom.
(Oct. 9, 11) (assigned readings)
Unit 8 Nazi Ideology, Regime and Society. Hitler. Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism. Ordinary Germans and the Nazis.
(Oct. 16, 18) (Jones, p. 233-253; Valentino, p. 166-170; assigned readings)
Unit 9 The Jewish Holocaust. Discrimination, Ghettoization, Extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jewish Resistance.
(Oct. 23, 25*) (Jones, p. 254-282; Valentino, p. 170-178; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 10 Communist Soviet Ideology, Regime and Society. Collectivization and Famine. Stalin’s Terror. Gulag. Katyn.
(Oct. 30) (Jones, p. 188-203; Valentino, p. 91-117; assigned readings)
Unit 11 Case Study Discussion. Communist Chinese Ideology, Regime and Society. China and Maoism. Tibet.
(Nov. 6, 8) (Jones, p. 204-232; Valentino, p. 117-132; assigned readings)
Unit _12 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. Bosnia and Kosovo. Guatemala. Afghanistan. The Roma People.
(Nov. 13, 15) (Jones, p. 283-345; Valentino, p. 132-151; assigned readings)
Unit _ 13 The Future of Genocide. Memory and Denial. International Criminal Tribunals. National Trials.
(Nov. 20, 22) (Jones, p. 501-542; Valentino, p. 196-233; assigned readings)
Unit _ 14 Justice and Truth. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention. Class Discussion. Conclusion.
(Nov. 27, 29*) (Jones, p. 542-601; Valentino, p. 234-253; assigned readings)
* FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT * PORTFOLIO
(Dec. 1-7 tba*)
* FINAL EXAM
Films/Audiovisual Materials Sessions:
(Monday Sep. 25 at 19:30) “on Africa”
(Monday Oct. 23 at 19:30) “on Armenians”
(Monday Nov. 6 at 19:30) “on Shoah”
(Monday Nov. 13 at 19:30) “on Communism”
NOTE:
The syllabus schedule may undergo reasonable changes in relation to guest speakers, field trips, make-ups, discussions, events, and other contingencies.