Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights

                                                      Presents its Inaugural Speaker Series on

                                                               Genocide and Human Rights

                                                                            Spring 2008

This speaker series (View Poster), which examines the intersection of genocide and human rights from a variety of perspectives, is being held on six Tuesday evenings, from 5:00-7:00pm, in the Provost's Conference Room, Center for Law and Justice (CLJ 502), during the Spring of 2008.   Speakers include:

“Fitting Memorials: American Jews Confront the Holocaust, 1945-1962,”
February 5 (note special time and place : 11:30-1:30, Dana Room, Dana Library)
Hasia Diner, Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University, and author, most recently of The Jews of the United States: 1654-2000 (2004) and Fitting Memorials: American Jews confront the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (forthcoming in 2008).

“Holocaust Memories and the Formation of the Human Rights Regime,” February 19 
Daniel Levy,  Associate Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University, is the author, most recently,
of The Holocaust and Memory in a Global Age (2005).

“The Demographics of Genocide: Refugees and Territorial Loss in the Mass Murder of European Jewry,” March 4
Manus Midlarsky, Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Department of Political Science, New Brunswick, and author, most recently, of The Killing Trap: Genocide in the 20th Century (2005) and The Origins of Political Extremism: Fascism, Communism, and Radical Islam (forthcoming).

“The Land of Pale Hands: Feminicide and Social Cleansing in Guatemala,” March 11
Victoria Sanford, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, and author of Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (2003).

“Genocide and Human Rights in Argentina,” April 1
 Marcelo Raffin, Professor of Law, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author, most recently, of Derechos Humanos and Ciudadania (2006) and The Experience of Horror: Subjectivity and Human Rights in Dictatorships and Post-Dictatorships of the Southern Cone.

“Race, Ethnicity and Genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,” April 15
Richard A. Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, and author, most recently, of Culture and Rights (2001), Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003), and Human Rights and the “War on Terror” (2005).

"Documenting the Cambodian Genocide: Challenges and Mistakes,” April 29
Youk Chhang is Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which has compiled over 600,000 pages of documentation related to the Khmer rouge genocide. In 2007, he was named as one of the “Time 100” and listed in Time Magazine’s "60 Years of Asian Heroes"