1. Understand the diverse landscapes and physical evidence connected to the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries
Knowledge and understanding, enquiry and analysis

2. Understand and critically reflect upon the role and contribution of archaeologists in the investigation of conflict and genocide worldwide
Kowledge and understanding, learning and analysis

3. Apply appropriate research skills and demonstrate communicative and evidencing skills [for individual assignments] appropriate to Masters level
Analysis, communication

This module will be assessed by
1) Essay on a theme or site of your choice, exploring significant theoretical approaches to genocide investigation [LO 1,2,3]

2) Engagement in discussion and online debates [LO 1,2,3]

Technology Enhanced Learning represents a core means of delivery. Technology forms an important element of both our teaching and research at the Centre of Archaeology. The online taught sessions will include a wide variety of media types and approaches. All teaching is done using a set of weekly readings and tasks on Blackboard; We use the available technologies to give DL students the opportunity to engage directly with staff and each other. The team’s approach to technology enhanced learning is to use it to close the distance between staff and students. Blackboard collaborate provides on-line meeting rooms where distance-learning students can meet with each other and with staff. It also supports the various webinars we run on the Masters Programme. Audio feedback both on discussion board posts and assignments is given by some members of staff, and this has proved a popular way of ensuring a stronger sense of direct personal contact with tutors. Microsoft Teams calls will frequently replace phone calls and this direct form of communication with students around the world is an invaluable way of making all students feel part of the University and its learning community. Social media will also play an important role in the delivery of the module. The Centre of Archaeology Facebook page, the Centre of Archaeology website, and several specific project web platforms all contain a huge volume of material that is highly relevant to the content of this course and they will represent important resources for information, debate, and engagement.

Tutors will provide supporting materials and formative and summative assessments to help you. Discussion and debate will be encouraged, and a number of different media types will be used throughout the course to allow you to engage with the subject matter. The self-directed study also makes up an important part of the module that will enable you to become a more independent learner and help prepare you for doctoral study or employment.

This module focuses on the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, identifying and examining the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence

Topics covered will include
• Crimes Scenes, Memorials and Forgotten Landscapes
• Cultural Genocide
• Camps
• Ghettos and Other Sites of Internment
• Killing and Burial Sites
• Work Sites
• Sensory Landscapes of Conflict and Genocide
• Destruction of Evidence: A Crime in Itself
• Materialities of Resistance
• Uses of the Material Culture of Genocide and Mass Violence
• Materialities of Perpetratorship

Case studies will be drawn from a range of examples but will include: The Armenian Genocide, the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, Soviet Terror and life under Communism as well as instances of genocide and mass violence in the Former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Syria and Iraq.

REFERENCE TEXTS
Barone, Pier Matteo,¿Groen, W. J. Mike (Eds.) 2018 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology 2018 Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-06843-1

Sturdy Colls, C. 2015. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. New York: Springer, Chapters 3 and 4.

Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2015. Human remains and identification: mass violence, genocide, and the 'forensic turn'. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2017. Destruction and human remains: Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bachman, Jeffery 2019 Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics and Global Manifestations (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Routledge. ISBN 978-0815380078

Understand the past to build a better future. On this module, you will study the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries and learn to identify the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence.

Supplied course packs of readings; ebooks and e-journals, relevant websites.
Blackboard VLE
Computer with internet access; students’ own textbooks