Exams: Qualifying in-class exam (45 min.), October 7 (Week 41). Exam setup will be explained at the first class meeting, August 19. Particular tasks will be announced on the day of exam.
Final take-home exam administered in accordance with UiO rules and regulations. Group Work: Class presentations will take place on. Assignments will be given at the first class meeting, August 19.NB!: There will be no classes on November 4 and November 25 (Weeks 45 and 48). Instead students will have to attend TWO seminars at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-senteret). Dates and subjects of the seminars will be announced at the first class meeting, August 19.
| Dato | Undervises av | Sted | Tema | Kommentarer / ressurser |
| 19.08.2008 | Anton Weiss-Wendt? | Niels Henrik Abels Hus, Room 410? | What is Genocide? Introduction to the course. Raphael Lemkin and the concept of genocide. The UN Genocide Convention. The field of comparative genocide studies.? | ? The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 3-26 (23 pages)? Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 9-51 (42 pages)? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 35-67. (32 pages)? |
| 26.08.2008 | ? | ? | Empire Building: German South West Africa (Namibia) Empire Disintegration: Ottoman Turkey.? | ? The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 141-62 (21 pages)? The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 189-213 (24 pages)? |
| 02.09.2008 | ? | ? | Social Engineering: The Soviet Union Under Lenin and Stalin? | Peter Holquist, “State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism” in: Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework, ed. By Amir Weiner (Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 19-45. (26 pages)The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 215-39 (24 pages)? |
| 09.09.2008 | ? | ? | Racial Ideology and Mass Murder: Nazi Germany? | Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2001), Chapter 3, pp. 39-67 (28 pages)Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000), Chapter 14, pp. 218-228 (10 pages)The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 75-96 (21 pages)The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 241-263 (22 pages)? |
| 16.09.2008 | ? | ? | Peasant Nationalism: Khmer Rouge Cambodia? | Alexander Laban Hinton, “Why Did You Kill? The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor” in: The Journal of Asian Studies, V57 N1 (February 1998), pp. 93-122. (29 pages)The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 307-323 (17 pages)? |
| 23.09.2008 | ? | ? | Ethnic Nationalism and Politics: Ex-Yugoslavia? | Tomislav Dulic, “Mass Killing in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941-1945: A Case for Comparative Research” in: Journal of Genocide Research, V8 N3 (September 2006), pp. 255-88. (33 pages)The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 353-370 (18 pages)? |
| 30.09.2008 | ? | ? | Political Construction of Race: Rwanda? | The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, ed. by Robert Gellately og Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 325-328 (14 pages)Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 167-237 (71 pages)? |
| 07.10.2008 | ? | Written in-class exam? | Religious Construction of Race: Sudan? | Jerry Fowler, “Evolution of Conflict and Genocide in Sudan: A Historical Survey” in: Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes, ed. by Joyce Apsel (Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005), pp. 21-8. (7 pages)? |
| 14.10.2008 | ? | Group presentations? | Hate Language and Propaganda in Genocide? | Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 54-106 (53 pages)? |
| 21.10.2008 | ? | Group presentations ? | The Role of State and Bureaucracy in Genocide? | Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 108-165 (58 pages) Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 240-307 (68 pages)? |
| 28.10.2008 | ? | Group presentations ? | Genocide Denial. ? | Richard G. Hovannisian, “Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparison With Holocaust Denial” in: Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, ed. by R. Hovannisian (Wayne State University Press: Detroit, 1998), pp. 201-235. (34 pages)Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 310-361 (52 pages)? |
| 11.11.2008 | ? | Group presentations ? | Genocide Prevention and Punishment? | ? Alex Alvarez, Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001), Chapter 6, pp. 130-152. (22 pages)Yves Beigbeder, Judging War Criminals: The Politics of International Justice (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1999), Chapter 5, pp. 104-124 (20 pages)Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (Beacon Press, 1998), pp. 25-51. (26 pages)? |
| 18.11.2008 | ? | ? | Sum-up and general discussion? | ? |