Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Sep. 3, 5) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Sep. 10, 12) (Jones, p.1-38; assigned readings)
Unit 3 Colonial and Imperial Genocides. War, and Social Revolution. The Perpetrators and the Public.
(Sep. 17, 19) (Jones, p.39-87; Valentino, p.1-29; assigned readings)
Unit 4 State and Empire. War and Revolution. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing.
(Sep. 24, 26) (Jones, p.88-199; Valentino, p.30-65; assigned readings)
Unit 5 Rwanda. The African Background to Genocide. Genocidal Frenzy. Congo. Darfur. Class Discussion.
(Oct. 1, 3) (Jones, p.470-523; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 6 The Armenian Genocide. War, Deportation, and Massacre. Imperial and National State.
(Oct. 8, 10) (Jones, p.200-257; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
Unit 7 Blood Lands: Eastern Europe and Russia. Migration, mass killing, war, revolution, insurrection, and pogrom.
(Oct. 15, 17*) (Valentino, p.152-166; assigned readings)
* MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 8 Nazi Ideology, Regime and Society. Hitler. Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism. Ordinary Germans and the Nazis.
(Oct. 22, 24) (Jones, p.318-339; Valentino, p.166-170; assigned readings)
Unit 9 The Jewish Holocaust. Discrimination, Ghettoization, Extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jewish Resistance.
(Oct. 29, 31) (Jones, p.340-391; Valentino, p.170-178; assigned readings)
Unit 10 Communist Soviet Ideology, Regime and Society. Collectivization and Famine. Stalin’s Terror. Gulag. Katyn.
(Nov. 5*, 7) (Jones, p.258-281; Valentino, p.91-117; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 11 Communist Chinese Ideology, Regime and Society. China and Maoism. Tibet.
(Nov. 12, 14) (Jones, p.282-317; Valentino, p.117-132; assigned readings)
Unit _12 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. Bosnia and Kosovo. Guatemala. Afghanistan. The Roma People.
(Nov. 19, 21) (Jones, p.392-469; Valentino, p.132-151; assigned readings)
Unit _ 13 The Future of Genocide. Memory and Denial. International Criminal Tribunals. National Trials.
(Nov. 26, 28) (Jones, p.661-748; Valentino, p.196-233; assigned readings)
Unit _ 14 Justice and Truth. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention. Class Discussion. Conclusion.
(Dec. 3, 5 *) (Jones, p.749-797; Valentino, p.234-253; assigned readings)
* FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT * PORTFOLIO
(Dec. 10 - 14, t.b.s.*)
* FINAL EXAM
Films/Audiovisual Materials Sessions:
(1. (date t.b.s.) at 19:30) “on Africa”
(2. (date t.b.s.) at 19:30) “on Armenians”
(3. (date t.b.s.) at 19:30) “on Shoah”
(4. (date t.b.s.) 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