PPT-Genocides In Human History

A sad commentary on humanity Abraham Rinquist September 24 2016 Genocide Even the very definition of genocide is contested but generally speaking it refers to the intentional destruction of a particular race ethnicity religious group or nationality Genocides have occurred and continue to occur in every corner of the globe in societies ancient and modern for reasons as diverse as the acquisition of land and resources to the demented hatred of a single man Some scientists have even gone so far as to assert that genocide led to the extinction of Neanderthal man Here are ten of the most heinous incidents in human history. History of Human Dissection. Claudius Galen 129 – 217 AD – Greek physician and anatomist. At the age of 28 Galen served as the chief surgeon to the High Priest of Asia who was the largest operator of gladiatorial games in Asia. By the age of 33 he was the personal physician of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 – 180 AD). What is history?. Explaining the past. Understanding the past. Historians devote considerable energy to establishing what happened and then to . why. We know WWI happened but what were the main reasons. Famous Storie. s we tell ourselves (I): . The ‘Discovery’ of the individual or . the. ‘self-. fahsioning. ’ of Renaissance Man: Jacob Burckhardt and Stephen Greenblatt . “… every generation has to rewrite history, not because the past has changed …but essentially because the present is changing, and with it the assumptions and needs of reader of history. In other words, like the anthropologist, the historian is a kind of interpreter, a “cultural translator” we might say, who attempts to make the language of the past intelligible to the present.”. Lecture 2: . Historiography 2014/15. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 . ‘. Enlightenment is mankind’s exit from self-incurred immaturity. . . Immaturity. is the inability to make use of one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. Self-incurred is the inability if its cause lies not in the lack of understanding but rather in the lack of the resolution and the courage to use it without the guidance of another. . An act of commemoration before Holocaust Memorial day. Holocaust (. Shoah. ). Extermination camps. . Auschwitz 1,000,000. . Belzec. 600,000. . Chełmno. 320,000. . Jasenovac. 58,000 – 97,000. Case study of Sudan. Do Now. Using any background knowledge you have answer the questions on the genocide pre-test.. Fill in every question!. Learning Target. Explain what genocide is. Identify genocides in the 20. Frank . Bongiorno. School of History. Research School of Social Sciences. Australian National University. Puzzles in Cultural History. ‘ ... . a. nthropologists have found that the best points of entry in an attempt to penetrate an alien culture can be those where it seems to be most opaque. When you realize that you are not getting something – a joke, a proverb, a ceremony – that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it.’ . Was the Savage . Noble?. : . Exploration . and Cross-Cultural . Encounter and the Universal History of Mankind . The Pacific . In 1766-1769 Bougainville circumnavigated the globe. . F. irst expedition (circa 300 people) with professional naturalists and geographers aboard. Humans show similarities with ‘apes’ (gibbons, orang, gorilla, chimps). . shared derived traits. : large brain, no tail, more upright posture. other Old World monkeys. ‘apes’ and humans. increased brain size. A sad commentary on humanity. Abraham Rinquist September 24, . 2016. . Genocide . Even the very definition of genocide is contested, but generally speaking, it refers to the intentional destruction of a particular race, ethnicity, religious group, or nationality. Genocides have occurred (and continue to occur) in every corner of the globe, in societies ancient and modern, for reasons as diverse as the acquisition of land and resources, to the demented hatred of a single man. Some scientists have even gone so far as to assert that genocide led to the extinction of Neanderthal man. Here are ten of the most heinous incidents in human history:. Lecture 2: . Historiography 2014/15. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 . ‘. Enlightenment is mankind’s exit from self-incurred immaturity. . . Immaturity. is the inability to make use of one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. Self-incurred is the inability if its cause lies not in the lack of understanding but rather in the lack of the resolution and the courage to use it without the guidance of another. . Dr. Claudia stein . Les Annales, . 1929. A reaction to nationalistic . Rankean. history writing that dominated at the time. Marc Bloch, 1886-1944. Lucien . Fevbre. , 1876-1956. The Annales school. Marc Bloch, The Royal Touch. Lecture 2: . Historiography 2018/19. The question of human agency and human experience? . The question of historical change and what causes change?. The question of scale. The relationship between ‘particulars’ and ‘universals’ or, to frame it otherwise, between historical ‘facts’ and their wider meaning. . The Return to the Grand Narrative? ‘Deep History’ and Big Data. How to explain human ‘agency’. What is human ‘experience’ and how to explain it? . What is historical ‘change’ and what causes it? .