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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: Victoria Sanford (Anthropology Professor And Founding Director Of The Center For Human Rights And Peace Studies, Lehman College) Drawing on 25 years of experience investigating human rights violation and genocide in Guatemala, Sanford will discuss the theory and practice of forensic exhumations, victim identification, archival and testimonial research and their interplay in legal processes […]

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 […]

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: Lina Sergie Attar, Karam Foundation. What does “home” mean to a child growing up as a refugee? What kind of future do we envision for the millions of people fleeing war, searching for sanctuary, and longing to belong? In this personal talk about the Syrian humanitarian crisis and its devastating toll on children, Attar […]