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 […]
Speaker: Ned Blackhawk (Yale University) A member of the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, Blackhawk is a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he coordinates the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early […]
“The Four Faces of the Republican Party,” Dante J. Scala, associate professor of political science, University of New Hampshire
Speakers: Julian Bonder, Deborah Martin (Geography), And Kristen Wilson (Art History) The question of how communities address painful legacies through memorial construction is the starting point for a discussion between architect Julian Bonder and Clark Professors Deborah Martin and Kristina Wilson. Bonder’s well-known Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France, a port from which […]
Speakers: Peter Holquist And Ronald Suny Ronald Suny (University of Michigan) and Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania) discuss genocide in the comparative contexts of the Ottoman and Russian Empires respectively. Recent scholarship, including that of Suny and Holquist, challenges the common understanding of the Armenian Genocide in the context of the Young Turks’ plan to eliminate […]
