Topics in Transitional Justice: The Politics of Memory - Memorials, Democracy, and Justice in Global Perspective

  • NINT 5253 - Topics in Transitional Justice: The Politics of Memory - Memorials, Democracy, and Justice in Global Perspective (Fall 2008)

Section A/CRN 4813 (syllabus)
Louis Bickford
Thursday 4.00pm - 5.50pm

This course is a rigorous immersion into the theory and practice of memorialization, with an emphasis on the relationship between memorials and transitional justice. Topics will include WWI and Holocaust memorials, as well as history wars, "dark tourism," and the World Trade Center site, as well as cases from South Africa, Argentina and Chile, Cambodia, Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda.

Concentrations:Governance and Rights, Conflict and Security