RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film

lpscps_user — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:37:59 +0000

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film

Term

Summer 2025

lpscps_user Tue, 12/17/2024 - 00:37

Session

Summer Session II: July 3 – August 8, 2025

Format

Online

Subject Area

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Course Number

REES 5272 942

Course Code

REES5272942

Course Key

86308

Schedule

Monday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Wednesday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Day(s)

Monday

Wednesday

Time

5:15pm-7:15pm

Instructor

TODOROV, VLADISLAV

Primary Program

Master of Liberal Arts

Course Description

This course studies political violence, terrorism, civil wars, ethnic conflicts, and genocidal policies as represented in the social media, cable news, documentaries, feature films. We discuss various techniques and strategies of the propaganda wars, post-truth media environment, etc. The regions of interest are Former Soviet Union, Russia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, US homegrown political violence, and the Middle East. The students are expected to develop and demonstrate a critical approach to different aspects of the cinematic, news, and social media representation of ethnic conflict. We focus on the violent developments that took place in Russia and the Balkans after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, conditioned by the geopolitical dynamics that the fall of communism had created. We study media broadcasts, documentaries, feature films representing both, the Eastern and the Western perspective.

Crosslistings

CIMS5272942

Subject Area Vocab

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film

lpscps_user — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:32:59 +0000

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film

Term

Summer 2024

lpscps_user Thu, 12/07/2023 - 00:32

Session

Summer Session II: July 3 – August 8, 2024

Format

Online

Subject Area

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Course Number

REES 5272 942

Course Code

REES5272942

Course Key

84220

Schedule

Monday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Wednesday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Day(s)

Monday

Wednesday

Time

5:15pm-7:15pm

Instructor

TODOROV, VLADISLAV

Primary Program

Master of Liberal Arts

Course Description

Subject Area Vocab

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Terrorism: Terrorism

lpscps_user — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:33:08 +0000

Terrorism: Terrorism

Term

Summer 2023

lpscps_user Thu, 12/15/2022 - 00:33

Session

Summer Session II: June 29 – August 4, 2023

Format

Online

Subject Area

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)

Course Number

REES 5550 942

Course Code

REES5550942

Course Key

81581

Schedule

Monday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Wednesday 5:15pm-7:15pm

Day(s)

Monday

Wednesday

Time

5:15pm-7:15pm

Instructor

TODOROV, VLADISLAV

Primary Program

Master of Liberal Arts

Course Description

This course studies the emergence of organized terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia and its impact on public life in the West, the Balkans, and America. We investigate the political and cultural origins of terrorism, its conspiratorial routine, structures, methods, manuals, and manifestoes. Historical and cultural approaches converge in the discussion of intellectual movements that forged the formula of terrorism and influenced the professionalization of the underground, such as nihilism, anarchism, and populism. We discuss the stern terrorist personality, self-denial, revolutionary martyrdom, and conspiratorial militancy. The theatricals of terrorism are of particular interest, its bombastic acts, mystification, and techniques of spreading disorganizing fear in the global media environment. We trace the creation of counterterrorism police in late imperial Russia and its methods to infiltrate, demoralize, and dismantle the terrorist networks, and reengineer their social base. First Red Scare and the formation of the FBI constitutes a unique case of managing rampant political violence and countering the asymmetrical threat of terrorism.

Crosslistings

CIMS5550942

Subject Area Vocab

RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (REES)