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School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations 1 SCHOOL OF HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HISTORY PROGRAMME HIST338 PRELUDE TO PEACE: DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES IN POSTWAR EUROPE CRN 18772 TRIMESTER 2, 2011 11 July to 12 November 2011 Trimester dates Teaching dates: 11 July to 14 October 2011 Mid-trimester break: 22 August to 4 September 2011 Study week: 17–21 October 2011 Examination/Assessment period: 21 October to 12 November 2011 Withdrawal dates Information on withdrawals and refunds may be found at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/admisenrol/payments/withdrawlsrefunds.aspx Course Coordinator: Dr. Simone Gigliotti Office: OK 505 (Old Kirk) Phone: 04 463 6775 Email: [email protected] Office hours: Thursday, 12.00-1.00pm Lecture Information Time/Venue: Tuesday, MY LT 101 (Murphy Lecture Theatre, 101), 10.00am-12.50pm (Lecture from 10.00-10.50am followed by film screening from 11.00am- 12.50pm; attendance is strongly recommended) Seminar Information: Times/Venues: Tuesday: 2.10-4.00pm HMLT001 (Hugh McKenzie) Wednesday: 10.00-11.50am RWW127 (Railway West) Wednesday 2.10-4.00pm HMLT001 (Hugh McKenzie) Thursday: 2.10-4.00pm VZ108 (Von Zedlitz) Course delivery HIST 338 is taught through a combination of lectures (one 50-minute lecture/week), seminars (one two- hour seminar/week) and weekly film screenings that immediately following the lecture (1-2 hours). Please note that due to lecturer absence in Week 1, lectures, films and seminars begin in Week 2. In the absence of the lecturer in Week 1, you will be asked to write a (non-assessed) report that will be emailed 2 to you via Blackboard and is due at the History Office (with usual Essay cover sheet) by Friday 22 July, 5pm. Details are also included in the course guide (p. 6). Please register in person for a seminar with Yvette Butcher, History Programme Administrator, during Week 1, from 11-14 July between 9am and 3pm only. A seminar preference sheet will be emailed to you which you should complete and physically deliver to Yvette Butcher at the History Office or you can complete a seminar preference form at the History Office during the above times. Students will be notified of seminars by email on Monday 18 July. Lectures and seminars begin on 19 July. NB: Students are expected to have completed the readings for Week 2 as well as having completed the Week 1 report. Contact [email protected] or phone 04 463 5344. Communication of additional information This course uses Blackboard and presumes that all enrolled students have valid myvuw.ac.nz addresses. Please check that this account is active and you have organised email forwarding. Additional information and any changes to the timetable or lecture and seminar programme will be announced in lectures, and posted in Blackboard “Announcements”. Email updates will be sent to all enrolled students notifying them of these changes and where to find such information in relevant Blackboard folders. Weekly lecture outlines will be posted to Blackboard and available for downloading on the Monday evening (from 6.00pm) preceding each lecture on Tuesday. Students are encouraged to view Blackboard at least twice weekly to monitor updates and announcements. It is your responsibility to keep informed of updates on Blackboard. Course prescription This course explores the aftermath of World War II, namely the problem of displaced persons, refugees and expellees on the quest for peace and governance of Europe. It will include attention to humanitarian organisations, international law, the geography of displacement and expulsion, and the memory of war in personal national narratives. Course content This course explores the aftermath of World War II, namely the displacement, forced migration and expulsion of tens of millions of men, women and children across Europe. These people, victims of war, violence, genocide, totalitarianism, and forced labour, were stateless and homeless; their vulnerable state exposed the devastating impact of war and the unpreparedness of the United Nations and international community to address the scale of this humanitarian and demographic crisis. The course will explore the impact of displaced persons (with particular reference to Jewish victims of World War II), refugees and expellees on the quest for peace, democratisation, and governance of Europe in the emerging Cold War period. It will include attention to the following topics: diplomacy and constraints in refugee management and international law, the geography of displacement and expulsion, illegal flight and migration routes away from DP camps, political activism, and the memory of ethnic and political upheaval in individual and group narratives. Learning objectives Students passing the course should be able to: • Appreciate the impact of World War II and its aftermath on the emergence of displaced persons (DPs) and refugees as stateless groups in humanitarian, diplomatic and political debates. • Understand how the course and aftermath of World War II and the emerging cold war context produced the demographic destabilisation of Europe; 3 • Appreciate how displaced persons and refugees were administered and rehabilitated in the context of aid and immigration policies; • Demonstrate a critical aptitude in relation to the sources and impacts of displacement and refugee experiences; • Conduct primary and second source research on topics related to displaced persons and refugees in post-war European history, and demonstrate critical and analytical skills in the completion of set writing and assessment tasks. • Contribute to informed oral discussion of relevant historical information and historiographical debates on the topics of displaced persons and refugees, as based on the weekly readings in seminars and broader reading on those topics. Need help with your writing and study methods? Students are encouraged to visit the website of VUW’s Student Learning Support Service for information on study skills and academic writing workshops in Trimester 2, 2011: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/st_services/slss/index.aspx Graduate attributes As with all History courses, learning objectives of HIST338 contribute to the attainment of specific graduate attributes. For more details please consult our website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/hppi/subjects/hist.aspx#Gradattributes Expected workload In accordance with Faculty Guidelines, this course has been constructed on the assumption that students will devote 200 hours to HIST 338 throughout the trimester. This includes weekly attendance at lectures, film screenings and seminars, completion of all set weekly readings and research and writing for set assessment tasks. Group work There is no assessed group work for HIST338. Essential Readings • Library E-copies: There is a Digitised Book of Readings for the course that has been made available through course reserve in the library (each individual article should have its own file link): http://victoria.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/enterCourseReserve.do There is no cost involved in downloading these articles as PDF files. Please select “HIST 338” from the course list. Readings for weeks 1-3 should be available at the beginning of the trimester, and I will notify you periodically as further weekly readings become available. If there are problems in downloading articles please contact [email protected] • Blackboard: All copies of the readings have also been uploaded into Blackboard under “Course Materials” along with the relevant seminar and lecture outline. Therefore, students should download articles from Blackboard OR the VUW library “Course Reserves” website. As Assessment III (in-class terms test) will be based on the essential readings and lecture content, it is imperative that you are conscientious and vigilant in downloading the weekly readings and reading them in preparation for seminars. • Cost: In providing e-copies or a digitised book of readings, the coordinator has endeavoured to minimise student costs and improve accessibility to readings. You should note that printing of these e-readings is at your own expense and that you should make typed notes on the readings and bring those notes to class as laptop use is strongly discouraged in seminars, and is an obstacle to discussion and effective contribution. 4 Recommended Reading: (in alphabetical order) Please check the library catalogue for the availability of these books as they each have a different availability status. Also check the Course Reserve for HIST 338: http://victoria.lconz.ac.nz/vwebv/enterCourseReserve.do Pertti Ahonen (et al.), People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath (Oxford: Berg, 2008). Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann (eds.), Life After Death: Approaches to a Social and Cultural History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, Washington, D.C. (German Historical Institute ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003). Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller (eds.), Histories of the aftermath: the legacies of the Second World War in Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010). Gerard Daniel Cohen, In War's Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) Peter Gatrell, Free World? The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956–1963 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). William Hitchcock, Bitter Road to Freedom: a New History of the Liberation of Europe (New York: Free Press, 2008). Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) Tony Judt, Postwar:
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