Project Directors:   Alex Hinton, Tom LaPointe

When the people think of genocide, they usually think of some of the most tragic genocides in recent history: the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and now Darfur. There are, however, other instances of mass extermination and cultural obliteration that have been more or less forgotten, thus handing the victims a double death, first by genocide and then by historical erasure. Through lectures, conferences, and research initiatives, this program seeks to reexamine some of these “forgotten genocides” by exploring what happened, how it was forgotten, and why we are now remembering it once again.