RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
Expert analysis of international processes. Module: “Politics of memory: the Holocaust and genocides”

Expert analysis of international processes. Module: “Politics of memory: the Holocaust and genocides”

The program is offered by Center for the History of the Holocaust and Genocides and Center for Biblical Studies and Judaica of RSUH jointly with the Department of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of RSUH.

The program is designed for students with a bachelor's degree in humanities, social and cultural sciences, as well as for specialists in the field of history, international relations, foreign area studies, political science, economics, jurisprudence, linguistics, culturology.

This is the first and only educational program in the post-Soviet space with a profile aimed at a comprehensive study of the policy of memory of the Holocaust and genocides. The program covers a wide range of topics, from a socio-political analysis of modern international relations to studying the politics of memory of the Holocaust and genocides in separate countries, examines the cultural and philosophical component of the formation of memory of the Holocaust and genocides. Special attention is paid to the historical and cultural context of the emergence of ethnic and religious conflicts, which will allow for competent analysis on modern international processes.

Types of occupation: expert analysis, research.

Key disciplines of the program:

  • Research Methodology and Academic Culture;
  • Foreign language in professional activity;
  • Holocaust History;
  • Ethnic Conflictology;
  • Genocides of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire;
  • Literature and Art on the Holocaust and Genocide;
  • Memory Studies and Historical Politics;
  • Historical demography: world wars, the Holocaust, genocides;
  • Trials of Nazi criminals: an international dimension;
  • Holocaust remembrance policy in the USSR (RF) and in Europe;
  • Righteous Diplomats;
  • Reception of the Holocaust in the cinema.

Areas occupation: state, public and private organizations, political parties, diplomatic missions, research institutes and foundations, expert and analytical centers, government bodies, organizations engaged in educational activities, mass media, non-profit and commercial organizations related to cultural policy.