WAR, REFUGEES & HUMANITARIANISM

Catalog description

A historical examination of how destruction resulting from war impacts society by focusing on four episodes linked by geography and Mediterranean culture: 1) Constantinople in 1453, 2) Greek Revolution of 1821, 3) the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922, and 4) the war in Syria and refugee crisis (2011-present). Topics to be explored are motivation and conduct of war, treatment of captives and conquered peoples, enslavement, forced migrations, refugees and humanitarian responses, and the use of historical memory to narrate events.