Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Sep. 21, 23) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Sep. 28, 30, Oct. 2) (Jones, p.1-38; assigned readings)
Unit 3 Colonial and Imperial Genocides. War, and Social Revolution. The Perpetrators and the Public.
(Oct. 5, 7) (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.
(Oct. 12, 14) (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. 19, 21) (Jones, p.470-523; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 6 The Armenian Genocide. War, Deportation, and Massacre. Imperial and National State.
(Oct. 26, 28*) (Jones, p.200-257; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
* MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 7 Blood Lands: Eastern Europe and Russia. Migration, mass killing, war, revolution, insurrection, and pogrom.
(Nov. 2, 4, 6) (Valentino, p.152-166; assigned readings)
Unit 8 Nazi Ideology, Regime and Society. Hitler. Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism. Ordinary Germans and the Nazis.
(Nov. 9, 11*) (Jones, p.318-339; Valentino, p.166-170; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 9 The Jewish Holocaust. Discrimination, Ghettoization, Extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jewish Resistance.
(Nov. 16, 18) (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. 23, 25) (Jones, p.258-281; Valentino, p.91-117; assigned readings)
Unit 11 Chinese Maoism. Tibet. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. Bosnia and Kosovo. Guatemala. Afghanistan.
(Nov. 30, Dic. 2) (Jones, p.282-317; Jones, p.392-469;Valentino, p.117-151; assigned readings)
Unit 12 The Roma People. Genocide: Memory and Denial. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention. Conclusion.
(Dic. 7, 9 *) (Jones, p.661-797; Valentino, p.196-253; assigned readings)
* FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT
(Dec. 11 - 14, t.b.s.*)
* FINAL EXAM
Films/Audiovisual Materials Sessions:
(1. Oct. (date t.b.s.) at 19:35) “on Africa”
(2. Oct. (date t.b.s.) at 19:35) “on Armenians”
(3. Nov. (date t.b.s.) at 19:35) “on Shoah”
(4. Nov. (date t.b.s.) at 19:35) “on Communism”
NOTE:
The syllabus schedule may undergo reasonable changes in relation to guest speakers, field trips, make-ups, discussions, events, and other contingencies