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CONFERENCE: 2ND INT'L GRADUATE STUDENTS' CONFERENCE: KEYNOTE ON "WAR & GENOCIDE"
States News Service
March 14, 2012 Wednesday
The following information was released by Clark University:
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark
University will host the Second International Graduate Students'
Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies on March 29 - April 1,
presented in partnership with the Danish Institute for International
Studies and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present
interdisciplinary research projects to peers and to established
scholars in the field. Doctoral students working on the topic of
Holocaust or genocides in Africa, Asia and America will present and
discuss their latest research. The conference will reflect a full range
of interdisciplinary approaches, concepts, and methods in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, with U.S. scholars and others from Denmark,
Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, Poland,
Romania and France.
The conference will open with a public keynote address at 7:30 p.m.,
Thursday, March 29 in Tilton Hall, 950 Main Street. Dr. Omer Bartov ,
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown
University, will deliver the opening address, "War and Genocide:
The Holocaust as a War Goal or an Obstacle to Victory."
Professor Bartov, one of the leading scholars in Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, has held many prestigious fellowships and is also a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The
Eastern Front, 1941-45 (1985), Hitler's Army (1991), Murder in Our
Midst (1996), Mirrors of Destruction (2000), Germany's War and the
Holocaust (2003), The "Jew" in Cinema (2005), and Erased (2007).
The conference continues throughout the day on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday March 30 - April 1, with a series of panels for participants
and invited guests. Scholars will examine questions regarding the
aftermath and memory of the Holocaust, Armenian and comparative
genocide. Panelists will discuss rescue efforts during the Holocaust,
perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust and a comparative
transnational memorialization of genocides. Another panel will
examine psychological implications of encounters between victims and
perpetrators and survival.
The mission of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and
the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the
public, to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from
the murderous past; and to participate in public discussion about a
host of issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial
of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to
intervention in and prevention of genocidal situations today.
The keynote address is sponsored by the Buster Foundation in honor of
Dr. Richard '71 and Libby '72 Cohen. Major funding for the conference
is provided by the Louis and Ann Kulin Endowed fund.
For more information, contact the Strassler Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, at 508-793-8897; [email protected]).
Since its founding in 1887, Clark University in Worcester, Mass., has
a history of challenging convention. As an innovative liberal arts
college and research university, Clark's world-class faculty leads
a community of creative thinkers and passionate doers and offers a
range of expertise. Clark is nationally recognized in the areas of
psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and
genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development
and social change. Clark's students, faculty and alumni embody the
Clark motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.
States News Service
March 14, 2012 Wednesday
The following information was released by Clark University:
The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark
University will host the Second International Graduate Students'
Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies on March 29 - April 1,
presented in partnership with the Danish Institute for International
Studies and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present
interdisciplinary research projects to peers and to established
scholars in the field. Doctoral students working on the topic of
Holocaust or genocides in Africa, Asia and America will present and
discuss their latest research. The conference will reflect a full range
of interdisciplinary approaches, concepts, and methods in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, with U.S. scholars and others from Denmark,
Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, Poland,
Romania and France.
The conference will open with a public keynote address at 7:30 p.m.,
Thursday, March 29 in Tilton Hall, 950 Main Street. Dr. Omer Bartov ,
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown
University, will deliver the opening address, "War and Genocide:
The Holocaust as a War Goal or an Obstacle to Victory."
Professor Bartov, one of the leading scholars in Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, has held many prestigious fellowships and is also a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The
Eastern Front, 1941-45 (1985), Hitler's Army (1991), Murder in Our
Midst (1996), Mirrors of Destruction (2000), Germany's War and the
Holocaust (2003), The "Jew" in Cinema (2005), and Erased (2007).
The conference continues throughout the day on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday March 30 - April 1, with a series of panels for participants
and invited guests. Scholars will examine questions regarding the
aftermath and memory of the Holocaust, Armenian and comparative
genocide. Panelists will discuss rescue efforts during the Holocaust,
perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust and a comparative
transnational memorialization of genocides. Another panel will
examine psychological implications of encounters between victims and
perpetrators and survival.
The mission of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and
the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the
public, to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from
the murderous past; and to participate in public discussion about a
host of issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial
of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to
intervention in and prevention of genocidal situations today.
The keynote address is sponsored by the Buster Foundation in honor of
Dr. Richard '71 and Libby '72 Cohen. Major funding for the conference
is provided by the Louis and Ann Kulin Endowed fund.
For more information, contact the Strassler Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, at 508-793-8897; [email protected]).
Since its founding in 1887, Clark University in Worcester, Mass., has
a history of challenging convention. As an innovative liberal arts
college and research university, Clark's world-class faculty leads
a community of creative thinkers and passionate doers and offers a
range of expertise. Clark is nationally recognized in the areas of
psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and
genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development
and social change. Clark's students, faculty and alumni embody the
Clark motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.