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MIT 4037F/G   Special Topics in MIT: Innis, Schramm and Chomsky

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“Communicating Holocaust History” explores the role that Holocaust memorials and museums play in the construction of national and international Holocaust memory; survivor testimony, common memory, and deep memory; pedagogy and the discourse of genocide prevention; atrocity tourism; and questions about the comprehensibility of the Holocaust and the representational choices at various memorial sites. Texts include: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, James Young’s The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning and Holocaust Memorials in History, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and additional articles, book chapters, and book excerpts.

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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