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This course examines how atrocities - big and small - are remembered around the globe: What is the process through which individual experiences are transformed into credible testimonies and collective traumas? What role do state actors, educational institutions, community organizations, and civic society play in the production of memory? And what is the purpose of keeping the past alive if societies are ever-changing and evolving? We will trace the long-lasting legacies of human brutality to different parts of the globe. By embarking on field visits, listening to survivors, and combing through evidence accumulated by investigative journalists, we will critically engage with and expand upon foundational sociological texts on history, memory, and commemoration.