Attar’s lecture is part of a two-day conference that will explore the traumatic impact of mass violence on the most vulnerable segment of society-children and youth. Experts will examine the destructive strategies and methods of the perpetrators, the suffering of the victims, their agency, their coping mechanisms, and the lasting injuries of those who survived. […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: Taner Akçam, Lerna Ekmekçioglu, Donna-Lee Frieze, and Eric Weitz Closing thoughts by senior scholars about ideas discussed during the Third International Graduate Student Conference- Emerging Scholarship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide In partnership with the Danish Institute for International Studies Listen to audio from the event
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies on 9 – 11 April 2015, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present […]
