Class Routine for the Postgraduate Diploma in Genocide Studies, Fall 2015 (Updated on October 27, 2015)

Topics

Guest Speakers

Date and Time

1. The Concept and Origins of Genocide

Imtiaz Ahmed

Sept 11 FRI
09.00-10.30

2. Origins of the Legal Prohibition of Genocide

and the UN Convention

Mizanur Rahman

Sept 11 FRI
10.45-12.15

Assignment on Oral History: Interviewing Victim or Perpetrator or Witness of 1971

(Every student has to take one interview. Audio/Audio-Visual Record and transcribed interview need to be submitted to CGS)

September 12 is day off

3. Race, Nation-State and Mass-killing

Amena Mohsin

Sept 18 FRI
09.00-10.30

4. Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide

Samina Luthfa

Sept 18 FRI
10.45-12.15

European and Asian Film & Documentary Show on Genocide I

FRI Sept 18 (3.30-6.30)
Discussant: Zakir Hossain Raju
5. Psychology of Genocide

Mahmudur Rahman

Sept 19 SAT
09.00-10.30

6. Theoretical Approaches to Genocide Studies

Ashequa Irshad

Sept 19 SAT
10.45-12.15

Eid Ul Azaha (September 20-30)

7. Cultural Genocide

Ainoon Nahar

Oct 02 FRI
09.00-10.30

8. The Holocaust

Sue Gronewold

Oct 02 FRI
10.45-12.15

9. Psychology of Genocide Part II

Mahmudur Rahman

Oct 02 FRI
03.00-04.30

Field Trip I (Location: University of Dhaka)

SAT Oct 03 (11.30 - 2.00)
Lead speaker: Ajoy Dasgupta
DUCSU Museum Guide: Gopal
10. International Tribunal for Crimes
Against Humanity
Location: Special Meeting Room, Senate Building
(2nd Floor/Tritiyo Tola), University of Dhaka.

Kamal Hossain

Oct 09 FRI
10.45-12.15

11. Ethnic Cleansing

Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan

Oct 09 FRI
03.00-04.30

12. Researching on Genocide: Q&Q

Imtiaz Ahmed

13. Genocide (Topic will be decided by the Lecturer

himself)

Muntasir Mamoon

Oct 10 SAT
09.00-10.30
Oct 10 SAT
10.45-12.15

Asian Film & Documentary Show on Genocide II

SAT Oct 10 (3.00-6.30)
Discussant: Tanvir Mokammel
Location: Bangladesh Film Institute
160 (4th floor) Lake Circus, Kalabagan
(''SINGER '' Lane)
Dhaka-1205

14. Crimes Against Humanity

Tureen Afroz

15. International Trials: The Nuremberg Trial,

Tokyo Trial, ICTR, ICTY

Ramjul Haq

16. Citizenship, National Identity and Genocide

Amena Mohsin

17. Mass Killings in the Soviet Union Part I

Binayak Sen

Field Trip II (Location: Liberation War Museum)

SAT Oct 17 (2.30-5.00 pm)
Discussant: Mofidul Hoque and Mahabub Alam
18. Partition of Indian Subcontinent

Ashis Nandy

Oct 16 FRI
09.00-10.30
Oct 16 FRI
10.45-12.15
Oct 17 SAT
09.00-10.30
Oct 17 SAT
10.45-12.15

Oct 22 Thurs
09.00-10.30

Public Lecture

Ashis Nandy

Oct 22 Thurs
04.00-6.00

19. War and Genocide

Rashed uz Zaman

Oct 30 FRI
09.00-10.30

20. Religious Intolerance, Communal Violence

and Mass Killings

Imtiaz Ahmed

Oct 30 FRI
10.45-12.15

21. Mass Killings in the Soviet Union Part II

Binayak Sen

Oct 30 FRI
03.00-04.30

22. Genocide by the oppressed

Amena Mohsin

Oct 30 FRI
04.45-06.15

Durga Puja- Oct 23

Ashra- Oct 24

Last day for submitting interview for oral history is Friday October 30 (Before 12.00 pm)
Send transcribed interview to www.info.cgs.bd@gmail.com and submit recorded interview in CD at the Office of CGS

23. Mass Violence in East Asia: China and Japan

Delwar Hossain

Oct 31 SAT
09.00-10.30

24. African Genocides: Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra

Leone

Saima Ahmed

Oct 31 SAT
10.45-12.15

African Film & Documentary Show on Genocide III

SAT Oct 31 (2.30-6.00)
Discussant: Saima Ahmed
25. Prosecution of Genocide: ICC

Sheikh Rahman

Nov 06 FRI
09.00-10.30

26. War on Terror

Rashed uz Zaman

27. Genocide of 1971, Bangladesh

Afsan Chowdhury

28. Political Ideology and Genocide

M M Akash

29. Sexual Violence and Genocide

Sara Hossain

Nov 06 FRI
10.45-12.15
Nov 06 FRI
03.00-04.30
Nov 07 SAT
09.00-10.30
Nov 07 SAT
10.45-12.15

Field Trip III (Location: National Martyred Intellectuals Memorial)

SAT Nov 07 (2.30-6.00)
Discussant: Khondoker Shakhwat Ali
30. Indigenous/Aboriginal Genocide in the
Ehsanul Hoque
United States and Australia
31. Political Economy of Genocide

Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan

32. Gender and Genocide

Amena Mohsin

Nov 13 FRI
09.00-10.30
Nov 13 FRI
10.45-12.15
Nov 13 FRI
2.30-04.00

33. Genocide in Cambodia, East Timor and Sri

Lanka

Lailufar Yasmin

Nov 14 SAT
09.00-10.30

34. Empire, Colonialism, and Genocide

Dr. Salimullah Khan

Nov 14 SAT
10.45-12.15

35. Genocide and Print Media

Gitiara Nasreen

Nov 20 FRI
09.00-10.30

36. Film, Photography & Genocide

Shahidul Alam

Nov 20 FRI
10.45-12.15

37. Modernity and Genocide

Ainoon Nahar

38. The Armenian and Bosnian Genocides

Delwar Hossain

Nov 21 SAT
09.00-10.30

39. Transitional Justice, Truth and Reconciliation

Mofidul Hoque

Nov 21 SAT
10.45-12.15

40. Trauma, Memory and the Politics of Denial

Meghna Guhathakurta

Nov 27 FRI
09.00-10.30

41. State Responsibility and the Role of

International Community

Ramjul Haque

Nov 27 FRI
10.45-12.15

42. Collective Guilt and Ethical Imagination

Syed Jamil Ahmed

Nov 28 SAT
09.00-10.30

Nov 20 FRI
03.00-04.30

Field Trip IV (Location: Bangladesh Police Liberation War Museum)

SAT Nov 28 (12.00-3.00)
Discussant: TBA

Examination: Time 10.00-12.00, Date: SAT December 05, 2015

Announcement of Result: December 19, 2015 SAT
Certificate Giving Ceremony: December 19, 2015 SAT
Lecturer can be subject to change in unavoidable circumstances.
Centre for Genocide Studies reserved all the rights of changing routine and send notification to students
within/before 48 hours.