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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 field should grow to include the issue of human rights. Genocide is about human destruction, in response, systems of rights to protect human life and culture have emerged and deserve close attention. Weitz’s book, A World Divided: A New Global History from the French Revolution to the Present, is a history of human rights and the segmentation of populations defined by nation or race in the modern era. This lecture commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
In partnership with the Danish Institute for International Studies