The monographic course deals with persecuton of internal minorities, forced popolution displacement and genocidies occurred during the 20th Century, with a main focus on the first-half of the century in Europe. We will investigate multiple causes, main actors, diverse ongoings and ideologies of those events, both on a general level and in some case-studies.
In order to pass the esamination, students attending the course should rely on notes taken in class, write a paper and study the following two books: Dan Diner, Raccontare il Novecento. Una storia politica (Garzanti) [only the Introduzione and chapters 1, 2 e 4]; Bernard Bruneteau, Il secolo dei genocidi (il Mulino).
Student NOT attending the course should study both the books above suggested and also one of the following books: Antonio Ferrara e Niccolò Pianciola, L'età delle migrazioni forzate. Esodi e deportazioni in Europa, 1853-1953 (Il Mulino), or, in alternative, Jacques Semelin, Purificare e distruggere. Usi politici dei massacri e dei genocidi (Einaudi).
You can read these books in your own language, if they are available.
Learning Objectives
Advanced knowledge of history of genocides during the 20th Century, including ability to find and analyse sources and to research autonomously on this issue and to expose and debate orally and writtenly your results.
Prerequisites
Qualified knowledge in contemporary history, sociology and political science, as acquired in a first-level degree. This is a compulsory requirement also for Erasmus and other foreign students
Teaching Methods
Lessons of the teacher and workshop, with students' oral and written expositions.
Further information
The course is scheduled in the second and the third period of the first semester. Lessons will begin on Monday, 15 October 2018.
Type of Assessment
In order to pass the esamination, students attending the course should rely on notes taken in class, write a paper and study the following two books: Dan Diner, Raccontare il Novecento. Una storia politica (Garzanti) [only the Introduzione and chapters 1, 2 e 4]; Bernard Bruneteau, Il secolo dei genocidi (il Mulino).
Student NOT attending the course should study both the books above suggested and also one of the following books: Antonio Ferrara e Niccolò Pianciola, L'età delle migrazioni forzate. Esodi e deportazioni in Europa, 1853-1953 (Il Mulino), or, in alternative, Jacques Semelin, Purificare e distruggere. Usi politici dei massacri e dei genocidi (Einaudi).
You can read these books in your own language, if they are available.
The exam is oral and questions concern topics dealt with in classes and in the above suggested books. Evaluation of the paper (to be sent by email to the teacher at least a week before the date of the exam) will add between 1/30 to 3/30 to the mark of the oral examination. Active partecipation to class debate also contributes positively to the final mark.
Course program
First section of the course is an introduction to European history in the first half of the 20th century, with a special focus on the crisis and fall of empires and the coeval building of national states. Therefore, it pays attention specially to identification of internal enemies and to organised political violence against defenceless civilians and minorities, both during war periods and previously and in theaftermath of the main interstatal conflicts of the period.
Second section is devoted to analyse historical literature concerning topics of forced migration, ethnic-national conflicts, genocidies, in order to analyze main issues and concepts and the most relvant interpretations.
Third section deals with some of most relevant case-studies of forced migrations and genocidies, both in Europe (Armenians, Jews, Serbians, Bosnian muslims), and in other contexts (Rwanda).
Fourth section is devoted to expose and debate other case-studies, refererred to the global context in the 20th century, as the ucrainan Holodomor, Greeks in the Middle-East, Italiana in North Adriatic region, Germans in Central Europe, Cambodia.