Memory, Truth, and Justice,
or,
How
Post-Dictatorial Democracies
Come
to Terms with their Past
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An
Interdisciplinary Minicourse on
HISP
332 1 hr SS (CR/NE)
* Six Lectures by Oberlin Faculty
* Guest
Lectures by Michael
P. Scharf (Case Western) and Chuck Sudetic (journalist & expert on Yugoslavia)
* Six Films
* One Round Table Discussion
Lectures:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Film
screenings: TBA
Click here for a Detailed Schedule
The general purpose of the course is to give an overview of
the different ways in which societies across the globe have attempted to make
transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and give a sense of the many
complex issues involved in these transitions. General aspects covered in the
course include: the role of international justice (judges, courts, tribunals);
the formation and work of truth commissions; the notions of truth and
reconciliation or punishment in relation with the ethics of collective memory;
and the role of cultural production (literature, art, film) in coming to terms
with a repressive past.
In order to pass this course, students will have to attend
all the lectures and screenings, do the assigned readings (available on
Blackboard), and write a 5-7 page paper.
For
information contact Sebastiaan Faber sfaber@oberlin.edu, x58189