Clare 108 World Views  Fall, 2006

Michael J. Lavin, Ph. D. Coordinator

Clare 108: World Views  Syllabus,

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                                                                             Lecture Sequence

Lavin discussions:

Lecture 1 Aug 28

Lecture 2  Aug 30       Clare 108  Lavin Introduction Slide Demonstration 

Lecture 3   Sept 1

Lecture 4  Sept 4  Film  I.

 The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust

Lecture 5  Sept 6   Historical  Origins of the Holocaust

Lecture 6   Sept 8  Holocaust: Historical Roots  in Germany

Lecture 7    Sept 11 Elie Wiesel's " Night" discussion   Historical and Cultural trend in Post WWI Germany: The beginnings of the Holocaust

Cabaret

Lecture 8   Sept 13    Chronology of Jewish Persecution   Triumph of the Will

Lecture  9     Sept 15   Kristalnacht  increasing marginalization of Jews from German life....

Lecture 10  Sept 18

Ghettozation  Deportation and Annihilation: The Final Solution

Lecture 11 Sept 20

DVD Ausochwitz  BBC Vide

Lecture 12  Sept 22    America the World and the Holocaust:

National and international responsibility: Prevailing Anti-Semitism, Deadly silence, & Indifference   United States and the Catholic Church: Failure to Help  during the Holocaust ancillary lecture "Righteous Gentiles".

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Available films/dvds    relevant to presentations past

Student Topics by presenters

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Groups I. Retribution  Genocide by Reprisal

Sept 25                              Introduction

9:30     Beginning 02  

  Kathleen Mendola   Cason Morrisette

  Brian Valente     Kevin Suminski    

   Tim Volkmar     Dennis Sherba

10:30    Beginning 03

Courtney Wilhelm,   Andrew Brown,

Steve Oroho, Phil Smith,

and Kevin Gray
 

Sept 27

 9:30 Tim and Brian Genocide in Rwanda

10:30  Courtney and Andrew  Genocide in Rwanda

Sept 29

10:30   Kevin  and Dennis       Sudan

10:30  Kevin Gray        The  Rape of  Nanking

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9:30  Kathy Mendola    Bosnia

10:30  Phil Smith   Kurdish Genocide

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9:30 Cason Morrisette The Rape of Nanking

10:30   Steve  Oroho  Islamic Retribution and Terrorism

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Joe Diamond will discuss his painful memory of  surviving the Holocaust.  For those wishing to donate

to the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo please send donations to Sylvia Schwartz  The Holocaust

 Resource Center of Buffalo, New York 1050 Maryvale Drive, Room 464, Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Email:

 HRC1050@aol.com

10/11/06 Beginning of Developmental Genocide Australian government's "eugenics" policy toward Aboriginal half-castes

10/13/06  Religion and Genocide Lavin

Oct 16  

Developmental Genocide

Group 2  9:30

Monday  Oct 16-Introduction all of us  

Wednesday Oct 18- Matt Piccolo- The Philippine-American War

Friday Oct  20- Megan Shierling & Jeff Foote- African Slavery in the US

Monday-  Oct 23-Don McIntosh and Luis Rivera- Native Americans

Wednesday  Oct 25- Mark Larry- East Timor

Friday  Oct 27-  Lavin's Pontiac experience and the after Aftermath of the Aftermath