The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of the Cyprus Conflict.  Cyprus is a particularly interesting example of a long term and intractable conflict in which the narration and memorization of history play a significant role in the ongoing struggle.  Like the island itself the history of Cyprus has been divided, usually into sides described as Greek and Turkish, with only few variations in between.  The homogenization of Cyprus’ history into the history of two competing sides in a conflict does not only suppress the possibility of other histories ( and other’s histories) in common, public discourse, but also has led to binary scholarship on recent history of the island.  Hence one of our primary goals in this course will be to understand ways and which, in this particular conflict situation, parties to the conflict engage history as an actor in struggle, and how the engagement of history in the struggle makes history itself resistant to questioning change.