Abdul Hamid II Era and Beyond Conference Program Opening Panel: From Abdul Hamid II to the Genocide: Continuity and Rupture Speakers: Ronald Suny (William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago) and Stephan Astourian (Professor of […]
Speaker: Mishy Lesser (Learning Director of the Upstander Project and Educational Fellow at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut) For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the […]
Screening: Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross Speakers: Michael Ross ’93 (Attorney, Prince, Lobel, Tye LLP and former Boston City Councilor) and Roger Lyons (Writer/Producer/Director) A survivor of 10 concentration camps, Steve Ross immigrated to Boston after the Holocaust. He became a civic leader and the driving force behind the creation of the Boston Holocaust […]
Speaker: Mneesha Gellman (Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Emerson College, Boston) Professor Gellman examines six case studies in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador to show how memory-based narratives serve as emotionally salient leverage for marginalized communities to facilitate state consideration of minority rights agendas. Shaming […]
Speakers: Tun Khin (President Burmese Rohingya Organization UK), John Knaus (Associate Director for Asia, National Endowment for Democracy), Debbie Stothard (Director of Altsean-Burma and Secretary General of International Federation for Human Rights) and Matt Wells (Amnesty International Senior Crisis Advisor) Who are the Rohingya? And why do so many people in Burma/Myanmar regard them as […]
Speaker: Stefan Ihrig (Professor Of History At The University Of Haifa). For Germany, the Armenian Genocide did not take place “far away in Turkey.” It was something very close to home. Relations between the German empire and the Ottoman Empire had been close since the 1890s. Since then Germany had become accustomed to excuse violence […]
Speaker: Victoria Sanford, Professor And Chair Of Anthropology, And Founding Director Of The Center For Human Rights And Peace Studies, Lehman College, City University Of New York. In cooperation with the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, this conference provided a forum for advanced doctoral students and early post-docs to present […]
Speaker: Professor Taner Akçam, Robert Aram And Marianne Kaloosdian And Stephen And Marian Mugar Chair In Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University Clark University historian Taner Akçam has made landmark discoveries that prove the Ottoman government’s central role in planning the Armenian genocide. Despite decades of scholarly research, the scarcity of direct evidence has allowed Turkey […]
Speaker: Golfo Alexopoulos (Professor Of History, University Of South Florida, Tampa And Director Of The USF Institute On Russia) Alexopoulos will discuss her new book, Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag, which is the first scholarly work devoted to health and medicine in Stalin’s forced labor camps. Drawing upon recently declassified Gulag archives, the book […]
Speaker: Rebecca Carter-Chand (Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center For Holocaust And Genocide Studies, Clark University) In the 1930’s, the Salvation Army operated around the world. As in other countries, the German branch of this Protestant organization offered social services and a spiritual community for Germany’s urban poor and working classes, as well as large-scale humanitarian […]
Speaker: Owen Miller (Postdoctoral Fellow, Union College) In the 1890s, a series of massacres targeted Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Two American Civil War veterans living in Istanbul reported on the killings, both comparing it to the violence against African Americans in their native country. One, a former Confederate general, thought reports of the Armenian […]
Speaker: Alex Hinton, Director Of The Center For The Study Of Genocide And Human Rights, And Professor Of Anthropology And Global Affairs, Rutgers University. During the Khmer Rouge’s brutal reign in Cambodia (mid- to late-1970s), a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 […]
