Holocaust: Ethical, Legal and Political Problems

The virtual part will be running from 1st of February to 11th . Students will attend virtual lectures on a variety of theoretical perspectives about Holocaust. They will have access to a room in the CIVIS Moodle platform, where they can access all material provided by the lecturers to prepare for their online lectures. 1 Feb. Introduction and lecture (in spanish): Cristina Sánchez: The singularity of Holocaust 8 Feb. Lecture (in spanish): Evaristo Prieto: Elements of Antisemitism 15 Feb. Lecture( in spanish): Evaristo Prieto: Politics of Extermination I: 1933-1939 22 Feb. Lecture (in spanish): Evaristo Prieto: Politics of Extermination II: Towards the Final Solution 29 Feb: Felicia Waldman (online class, in English) Holocaust and Education 7 March. Lecture (in spanish): Miguel Fernández: The uses of language in Totalitarianism 14 March. Lecture (in spanish): Totalitarian system: Characteristics 21 March. Lecture (in spanish): Cristina Sánchez: Not only Hitler: German population and the Holocaust 4 April. Lecture (in spanish): Cristina Sánchez: Collective responsibility and Banal Evil 11 April Tanja Schult (online class, in english)): How to remember Holocaust? The challenges of memorialization Holocaust: Why did it happen? Why in Germany? Does it have similarities with other genocides? What can we learn? Why remember?

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2024-02-01

Virtual Part closing date 2024-04-11

Total student workload 83

Specific field of studies Political Theory, Contemporary History, Philosophy, Sociology

Pre-requisite for selection Motivation Letter

Academic pre-requisites for applicants A sufficient knowledge of Spanish to follow the lectures and read some of the course materials. Sufficient knowledge of English to follow the lectures of the guest lecturers, which will be given in English, as well as to read a substantial part of the materials that will be available on the CIVIS Moodle platform. Knowledge of the European history of the first half of the 20th century, is welcome.

Physical Part starting date 2024-03-18

Physical Part Description Students will attend to a series of lectures and visit museums, memorials, and memory sites. By the end of the week, the students will present their projects and receive feedback from lecturers. The activities designed for the week of physical mobility offer an attractive approach to some realities linked to the perpetration of mass violence against certain groups, such as the Jews. Thus, we will visit Toledo and learn about the coexistence between Jews, Arabs, and Christians in the 12th century. In Madrid, we will visit the temporary exhibitions of Casa Sefarad, an institution for the dissemination of Jewish culture founded under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union, which has many and varied activities for dissemination and training. We will also count on the presence of members of the Association Amical Mauthausen, dedicated to the Spanish Republican deportees to the extermination camps in Germany. We will visit also one of the few places of memory of the Spanish prisoners imprisoned by the Franco regime in the post-Civil War period in the Sierra Norte of Madrid.

Physical Part closing date 2024-03-22

Language level required B2

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities

Course location Madrid, Spain

Course language Spanish