Speaker: Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair In Jewish Studies And Professor Of History At The University Of Southern California, Los Angeles And Director, Shoah Foundation. Wolf Gruner will introduce the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. A repository with over 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan, Armenian, Cambodian, and […]
Speaker: David Rieff, acclaimed journalist, author, and policy analyst. Emerging Expertise Conference, Keynote Lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation Listen to audio from the event
The conference Emerging Expertise: Holding Accountability Accountable (6-9 April 2017) will put a diverse array of early career scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and NGO staff working on issues germane to the aftermath of mass violence into conversation with one another in order to generate novel ideas about past cases and contemporary ones. Participants will explore “accountability” […]
Speaker: Andrea Gaulde (Auschwitz Institute For Peace And Reconciliation) Emerging Expertise Conference, Keynote Lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Charles E. Scheidt Family Foundation Listen to audio from the event
Speaker: Eliisa Mailänder (Centre D’Histoire De Sciences Po, Paris) This lecture sheds light on the lives, experiences, and violent acts carried out by a group of twenty-eight women who worked as concentration camp guards at Majdanek in occupied Poland between 1942 and 1944. None of these women were innate agents of terror. Yet, at different […]
Speakers: Barbara J. Merguerian (Director, Armenian International Women’s Association), Judy Saryan (Author And Project Manager, Armenian International Women’s Association), And Dana Walrath (Independent Scholar, Artist And Writer). Historian Barbara J. Merguerian, a founder of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA), will moderate a discussion about women’s responses to the Armenian Genocide. Judy Saryan will present […]
Speaker: Chen Bram (Hebrew University) This lecture discusses the crossways and intersections between histories and memories of Holocaust, Genocide and forced deportations in the Caucasus. Focusing on the Circassian Genocide of 1864, the Holocaust, and the mass deportations of Chechens, Ingush, Meskhetians and ethnic group under Stalin in 1944, Dr. Bram will examine how these […]
Speaker: Raz Segal (Stockton University) Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus’, a multi-ethnic and multi-religious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated first under the pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II, from the onslaught of Hungarian occupation […]
Speakers: Judy Dworkin And David Pijawka, In Conversation With Jody Emel And Thomas Kühne, Clark University. Judy Dworkin is Head of Indian Law and Tribal Relations Practice Group for Sacks Tierney Law in Phoenix, Arizona. She is appellate justice of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Council Court, judge pro tem for the Tohono O’odham […]
Speaker: Christopher Browning (University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill). Dr. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ,and the author of several landmark works in the field of Holocaust history, including Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Harper […]
Speaker: Garo Paylan, Armenian Deputy Of The Grand National Assembly Of Turkey. Garo Paylan represents Istanbul as a deputy in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. He is a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (known as the pro-Kurdish party) and one of the first Armenian members of Turkey’s parliament in decades. Renowned as a […]
Schedule: 8:45 am: Welcome Thomas Kühne, Clark University 9-10 am: “The History of Violence, the Violence of History: Locating Genocide in the North American Past” Karl Jacoby, Columbia University Listen to the audio 10:15-11:15 am: “The U.S. Legal History and the On-Going Genocide of Native Americans” Angelique EagleWoman, University of Idaho Listen to the audio […]
