Banality of Evil Project
BoE in the News
Remarkable Times article featuring the project and Gallery Walk, January 16, 2018
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Combating the Banality of Evil
Rehumanization in the face of evil: University Of Michigan Ensemble 'Gives A Voice' To Nazi Prisoners Through Unearthed Music |
Class Resources and Info
Banality of Evil Project Handout
Popova article and annotation assignment
UDHR text, prereading, annotation
Eichmann text
Atrocities Book PDF, Matthew White
Banality of Evil Paper Outline
Banality of Evil Paper Citations
BoE calendar (November/December, 2019)
Visit the Night page for related resources and information. (Coming soon!)
Popova article and annotation assignment
UDHR text, prereading, annotation
Eichmann text
Atrocities Book PDF, Matthew White
Banality of Evil Paper Outline
Banality of Evil Paper Citations
BoE calendar (November/December, 2019)
Visit the Night page for related resources and information. (Coming soon!)
THE ACT OF KILLING (2012)
A film by Joshua Oppenheimer Medan, Indonesia. When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted from small-time gangsters who sold movie theatre tickets on the black market to death squad leaders. They helped the army kill more than one million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals in less than a year. As the executioner for the most notorious death squad in his city, Anwar himself killed hundreds of people with his own hands. Today, Anwar is revered as a founding father of a right-wing paramilitary organization that grew out of the death squads. The organization is so powerful that its leaders include government ministers, and they are happy to boast about everything from corruption and election rigging to acts of genocide. The Act of Killing is about killers who have won, and the sort of society they have built. Unlike ageing Nazis or Rwandan génocidaires, Anwar and his friends have not been forced by history to admit they participated in crimes against humanity. Instead, they have written their own triumphant history, becoming role models for millions of young paramilitaries. The Act of Killing is a journey into the memories and imaginations of the perpetrators, offering insight into the minds of mass killers. And The Act of Killing is a nightmarish vision of a frighteningly banal culture of impunity in which killers can joke about crimes against humanity on television chat shows, and celebrate moral disaster with the ease and grace of a soft shoe dance number. In The Act of Killing, Anwar and his friends agree to tell us the story of the killings. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to star in the kind of films they most love from their days scalping tickets at the cinemas. The filmmakers challenge Anwar and his friends to develop fiction scenes about their experience of the killings, adapted to their favorite film genres – gangster, western Banality of Evil in Indonesia Handout
Confronting Genocide: Never Again?
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