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The Challenges in Indian Country in the 21st Century: Planning, Law, Community

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 […]

Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps

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 […]

The Failed Military Coup in Turkey and Being an Armenian Deputy in Ankara

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 […]

Genocide of Native Americans? Indigenous Identity and Mass Violence in North America

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 […]

The Four Faces of the Republican Party

“The Four Faces of the Republican Party,” Dante J. Scala, associate professor of political science, University of New Hampshire

Recognizing Painful Legacies through Memorial Construction

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 […]

Empire, Nation-State, and Genocide

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 […]

Graduate Student Conference Closing Panel

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

3rd International Graduate Students’ Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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 […]

The Armenian Genocide, The Holocaust, and the Study of Human Rights

Speakers: Eric Weitz, Dean Of Humanities And Arts And Distinguished Professor Of History At The City College Of New York Dean Weitz opened the conference, Emerging Scholarship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide. Comparative genocide research and education are now rooted in university centers, scholarly associations, and journals. Weitz argued that the […]

Public History of the Holocaust

Speakers: Simone Schweber, Harold Marcuse And Andrew Port As part of its series on Public History, the Strassler Center brought together three eminent scholars to examine how historical events, particularly genocide, are interpreted, used, or manipulated toward specific ends. Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara; “Teaching the Holocaust to the Millennial Generation: The New Los […]