- - AHS788041

• Title: PVP 3 - The history of ethnic cleansing and genocide
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic and Social History (21-UHSD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. phil. doc. Boris Barth, M.A.
• Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Historické vědy; Exchange - 08.3 History

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (02.02.2020)

Type of the course: Lecture with student’s presentations
The term “genocide” was coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish lawyer Raffael Lemkin. Lemkin also was the driving force behind the creation of the genocide-convention of the UNO in 1948. This course deals with selected problems of definitions and presents several examples for genocides and cases of ethnic cleansing in the 20th century.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (19.03.2020)

 

Credits:

-          2 credits: presentation

-          4 credits: presentation and term paper

!Due to the extraordinary measures connected with coronavirus, changes can be made to the syllabus and to the character of attestation. For the latest information please contact the lecturer!

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (02.02.2020)

The literature will be given during the semester.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (02.02.2020)

 

Syllabus:

-          19th February: Introduction, formalities, definitions, program

 

-          26th February: Genocide before the 20th century?

 

-          4th March: The Young Turks and Armenia 1915/16

 

-          11th March: Ethnic cleansing after World War I, the treaty of Lausanne

 

-          18th March: Global Eugenics and the Nazi Euthanasia program (Z 4);

 

-          25th March, no class because of an excursion

 

-          1st April: Shoah I, the twisted road to Auschwitz

 

-          8th April: Shoah II, National- Socialist genocides

 

-          15th April: Communist genocides? Stalinism and the holodomor

 

-          22nd April: The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

 

-          29th April: Ruanda 1994

 

-          6th May: Yugoslavia in the 1990s

 

-          13th May: Genocide on trial, remembering genocide