Undervisningsplan

Day: Tuesday

Time: 10:15-12:00

Place: Fysikkbygningen, auditorium called "Lille fysiske auditorium ?st" (Week 36- 38, 40-41).

Eilert Sundts hus, Blokk A, auditorium 4. (in and after week 42).

NB: Instruction begins on September 1 (Week 36). There will be no class on November 17 (Week 47).

Office Hours: By appointment (anton.weiss-wendt@hlsenteret.no; 22-842-123)

Office Address: Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-senteret), Bygd?y, Huk Aveny 56 (Bus 30, stop: Bygd?hus)

Exams: Qualifying in-class exam (45 min.), October 20 (Week 43). Exam setup will be explained at the first class meeting, September 1. 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 October 27, November 3, 10, and 24 (Weeks 44, 45, 46, and 48). Assignments will be given at the first class meeting, September 1.

Class Schedule

Week 36, September 1

What is Genocide?

10:15-11:00

? Introduction to the course ? Raphael Lemkin and the concept of genocide

11:15-12:00

? The UN Genocide Convention ? The field of comparative genocide studies

Assigned Readings

? 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. 1-7, 35-67. (40 pages)

Week 37, September 8

Empire Building: German South West Africa (Namibia) Empire Disintegration: Ottoman Turkey

10:15-11:00

? Colonization of Africa ? Colonial violence ? Racial theory ? Herero/Nama uprising in German South West Africa (Namibia) and its suppression

11:15-12:00

? Minorities status in the Ottoman Empire ? Western pressure ? Armenian genocide ? Population transfers

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 67-89 (23 pages)

Week 38, September 15

Social Engineering: The Soviet Union Under Lenin and Stalin

10:15-11:00

? The Soviet Union, 1917-1933 ? The Red Terror ? Industrialization, forced collectivization, and famine

11:15-12:00

? The Soviet Union, 1933-1953 ? The Great Terror ? Ethnic deportations

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 91-101 (10 pages)

Week 39, September 22

Racial Ideology and Mass Murder: Nazi Germany

10:15-11:00

? Racism and anti-Semitism ? Killing of people with disabilities ? Mass murder of Jews

11:15-12:00

? Ideological war against Judeo-Bolshevism ? Polish intelligentsia and Soviet POWs ? Persecution of Sinti and Roma

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 101-125 (24 pages)

Week 40, September 29

Peasant Nationalism: Khmer Rouge Cambodia

10:15-11:00

? The impact of Cold War in South East Asia ? Khmer Rouge road to power

11:15-12:00

? Persecution of minorities ? Political purges

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 125-143 (19 pages)

Week 41, October 6

Ethnic Nationalism and Politics: Ex-Yugoslavia

10:15-11:00

? Ethnic tensions in interwar Yugoslavia ? Multiparty civil war and Ustashe terror during WWII

11:15-12:00

? Disintegration of Yugoslavia ? Ethnic cleansing and mass killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina ? Kosovo debacle

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 144-60 (15 pages)

Week 42, October 13

Political Construction of Race: Rwanda

10:15-11:00

? Colonial legacy ? Hamitic Theory ? Reciprocal massacres in Rwanda and Burundi

11:15-12:00

? 1994 genocide ? Indoctrination and mass participation ? Hutu refugee camps in Congo

Assigned Readings

? 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) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 160-67 (8 pages)

NEW:October 15

18.15-20.00,

Aud. 2, Sophus Bugges hus

Week 43, October 20

Religious Construction of Race: Sudan

10:15-11:00

? Colonial legacy ? Marginalization of minorities in Sudan ? Civil war in South Sudan ? Mass violence in Darfur

11:15-12:00

? Written in-class exam

Assigned Readings

? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 168-82 (15 pages)

Week 44, October 27

Hate Language and Propaganda in Genocide

10:15-11:00

? Group presentation

11:15-12:00

? Hate language and propaganda in genocide

Assigned Readings

? Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 54-106 (53 pages) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 182-96 (15 pages)

NEW: October 29

18.15-20.00,

Aud. 2, Sophus Bugges hus

Week 45, November 3

The Role of State and Bureaucracy in Genocide

10:15-11:00

? Group presentation

11:15-12:00

? The role of state and bureaucracy in genocide

Assigned Readings

? 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)

Week 46, November 10

Genocide Denial

10:15-11:00

? Group presentation

11:15-12:00

? Genocide denial

Assigned Readings

? Jacques Semelin, Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide (Columbia University Press 2007), pp. 310-361 (52 pages) ? Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Meaning of Genocide (I. B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 196-206 (11 pages)

Week 47, November 17

No class exercise

Week 48, November 24

Genocide Prevention and Punishment

12:15-13:00

? Group presentation

13:15-14:00

? Genocide prevention and punishment

Week 49, December 1

Sum-up and general discussion

12:15-13:00

? Sum-up

13:15-14:00

? The floor is open for questions and comments