2013-2014 Academic Catalog

May 04, 2024

2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 368 - Special Topics

Advanced Special Topic Fall 2013: Gender, Mass Atrocities and the Struggle for Remedy
This seminar uses gender analyses to examine mass violence during situations of armed conflict and under authoritarian regimes and the struggle for remedy by victims and their advocates. Topics covered include the development of international humanitarian law, human rights and criminal law as it relates to the course topics; feminist critiques of and influences on the evolution of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide; gendered analysis of the targeting of civilians; how resulting harms are experienced in gendered ways; victims’ rights to remedy and reparation; and a variety of transitional justice mechanisms. Serious crimes analyzed in the course include enforced disappearance, sexual and gender based violence, torture, targeting of civilians for attack, forced movement and displacement, mass killing (i.e. systematic and widespread but not meeting the elements of genocide), and genocide. The seminar also includes material on contemporary investigation and documentation of these crimes, and the efforts of collective action to seek remedy for victims. The course is comparative and will draw on both historical and contemporary cases from around the world.

Advanced Special Topic Spring 2014:Holocaust History /Genocide Studies: Problem, Approach, Narrative
The aim of this graduate is course is very explicitly not to cover a historical subject, but to develop students’ historiographical and professional tool kits. Our work will include – but is not limited to – investigation of how to research the public domain, the private domain, and the secret and hidden. What research questions demand the use of personal accounts? What is the difference between interview, testimony, and oral history? What is the purpose and value of each method, and how is each conducted? And how does a historian present her/his analysis?

Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied