Program:
Unit 1 Introduction. Methodology. Definitions.
(Jan. 18, 20) (assigned readings)
Unit 2 The Origins of Genocide. Mass Killing and Genocide. Comparative Genocide Studies.
(Jan. 25, 27) (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.
(Feb. 1, 3) (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.
(Feb. 8, 10) (Jones, p.64-148; Valentino, p.66-90; assigned readings)
Unit 5 Rwanda. The African Background to Genocide. Genocidal Frenzy. Congo. Darfur. Class Discussion.
(Feb. 15, 17) (Jones, p.346-379; Valentino, p.178-195; assigned readings)
Unit 6 The Armenian Genocide. War, Massacre, and Deportation. Imperial and National State.
(Feb. 22, 24) (Jones, p.149-187; Valentino, p.152-166; assigned readings)
Unit 7 Blood Lands: Eastern Europe and Russia. Migration, mass killing, war, revolution, insurrection, and pogrom.
(Feb. 29, Mar. 2*, 4) (assigned readings)
* MIDTERM EXAM
Unit 8 Nazi Ideology, Regime and Society. Hitler. Anti-Judaism/Anti-Semitism. Ordinary Germans and the Nazis.
(Mar. 7, 9) (Jones, p.233-253; Valentino, p.166-170; assigned readings)
Unit 9 The Jewish Holocaust. Discrimination, Ghettoization, Extermination. Auschwitz-Birkenau. Jewish Resistance.
(Mar. 14, 16) (Jones, p.254-282; Valentino, p.170-178; assigned readings)
Unit 10 Communist Soviet Ideology, Regime and Society. Collectivization and Famine. Stalin’s Terror. Gulag. Katyn.
(Mar. 21, 23*) (Jones, p.188-203; Valentino, p.91-117; assigned readings)
* PROJECT PROPOSAL
Unit 11 Communist Chinese Ideology, Regime and Society. China and Maoism. Tibet. North Korea.
(Apr. 4, 6) (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.
(Apr. 11, 13) (Jones, p.283-345; Valentino, p.132-151; assigned readings)
Unit _ 13 The Future of Genocide. Memory and Denial. International Criminal Tribunals. National Trials.
(Apr. 18, 20) (Jones, p.501-542; Valentino, p.196-233; assigned readings)
Unit _ 14 Justice and Truth. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention. Class Discussion. Conclusion.
(Apr. 27*) (Jones, p.542-601; Valentino, p.234-253; assigned readings)
* FINAL PAPER * PORTFOLIO
(Apr. 30 – May 6 tba*)
* FINAL EXAM
NOTE:
The syllabus schedule may undergo reasonable changes in relation to guest speakers, field trips, make-ups, discussions, events, and other contingencies.