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Why take Holocaust
and Genocide Studies?
The twentieth century has been called ‘the century of genocide’, but genocidal
violence has continued unabated into the new millennium. Holocaust and
Genocide Studies asks students to reflect upon why genocides take place
and how people come to participate in mass violence.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary program led
by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC) within the School
of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies.
A turning point in human history
Beyond the Holocaust
A Prime Resource
Holocaust and Genocide Studies explores
the Holocaust as a turning point in human
history, and its relationship to the broader
phenomenon of genocide and mass killing.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies challenges
students to grapple with the histories of other
genocides beyond the Holocaust, including
such case studies as Armenia, Cambodia,
the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Darfur,
as well as questions pertaining to indigenous
populations of the Americas, Africa, Australia
and others.
Each year the ACJC invites several
distinguished overseas experts to
contribute to teaching, public engagement
and an international Aftermath conference.
Students examine the causes and effects
of modern genocides, and what is now
being done to bring about their prevention.
testimonials
Verity Gresswell, 2nd year Arts/Law student:
Talent Mathe, Bachelor of Arts,
Monash South Africa:
“The Seeking Justice: South Africa and Rwanda
unit was my first overseas course and the best
Monash experience I have ever had. The lectures,
tutorials, visits, testimonies and people I met have
changed my life forever.”
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“Participating in the unit Seeking Justice: South
Africa and Rwanda was the most rewarding
experience of my life to date. I highly recommend
it to those with an active interest for reconciliation
and justice in post-conflict societies.”
Themes explored across all genocides include:
trauma and testimony; the limits of representation;
the survivor experience across generations and
cultures; the role of the law in adjudicating war
crimes; media coverage of atrocity; and the failure
to prevent genocide.
A prime resource for student engagement and
research is the Shoah Visual History Archive,
a collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonial
of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.
This archive is being augmented by testimonies
from the Rwandan genocide.
To find out more about these
projects along with other research
the ACJC is active in, visit:
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/
acjc/hgs/
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Including Holocaust and
Genocide Studies in your
Monash University degree
Holocaust and Genocide studies can be taken as a minor in any Arts
degree. Even if you’re not an Arts student, you can still take Holocaust
and Genocide Studies units as long as the degree you’re doing permits
you to take electives from another area.
Study Abroad
units
internships
Holocaust and Genocide Studies provide
a strong offering of overseas units that
enable students to integrate their academic
inquiry in Australia with intensive on-site
study and hands-on experience.
Units you can take in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies include:
The ACJC offers research internships for
students who have completed their overseas
intensive units. In the past students have
interned in Poland and Rwanda.
The ACJC offers a number of overseas intensive
units each year, including:
// The Holocaust in Film
This unit explores the modern history of
European Jews before and after the Holocaust.
Students travel to the major centres of interwar
Jewish life in Italy, Germany, Poland and
Lithuania, and encounter the diverse heritage
of Jewish life in each country. Students visit
museums, synagogues, cemeteries, destroyed
ghettos and sites of mass murder including
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Seeking Justice: South Africa and Rwanda:
This unit brings together students from Monash
campuses in Australia and South Africa to study
the contemporary histories of post-genocide
and post-conflict societies. Students spend
one week in Johannesburg, South Africa, and
a second week in Kigali exploring public debates
on memory, testimony, trauma and justice.
// The Holocaust
// Post-conflict: Justice, memory, reconciliation
// Trauma and memory in the modern world
// The rise and fall of Nazi Germany
// Conflict and culture in Europe
// Writing destruction: Literature of war
// Nationality, ethnicity and conflict
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Final Journey: Remembering the Holocaust
// Genocide
To find out more, visit
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/
acjc/overseas-internships/
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