JS 502

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Holocaust Genocide Studies

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Credit: 4 hours.

Interdisciplinary graduate-level introduction to Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, focusing on the origins and unfolding of genocidal violence and the legacies of genocide in collective memory, literature, and artistic representation. Key themes will include the relationship between perpetrators, victims, and bystanders; the problems of historical comparison; trauma and testimony; violence and representation.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	68356	Lecture-Discussion	BK	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	1068 Lincoln Hall	Kaplan, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Meets with CWL 581 Will meet in English Building room 109 How do material things carry memory? Evoke memory? How are objects of/and memory represented in literary texts? How do the objects of looted art—whether the Benin Bronzes, the Elgin Marbles, or the untold number of objects looted by the Nazi regime—reconceive memories at familial, personal, national levels? This course will explore these and other questions through a wide range of literary, historical, and cinematic texts. This course will count as the Introduction to Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies seminar.