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March 8, 2013 Friday
Connecticut: Symposium: `After the Trauma of the Holocaust and Genocide"
Hartford
University of Hartford, The State of Connecticut has issued the
following press release:
On Tuesday, March 12, following a visit to campus by Rwandan President
Paul Kagame, the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies will host a
symposium titled `After the Trauma of the Holocaust and Genocide:
Survival, Memorialization, and Reconstruction.'
The symposium will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Wilde Auditorium. The
program is free and open to the public, but you must reserve a seat by
contacting the Greenberg Center at 860.768.4964 or [email protected]
During the symposium, distinguished scholars from New England
universities will discuss genocide and Holocaust education. They are:
- Avinoam Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish
History and director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization at the
University of Hartford, who will moderate the discussion;
- Lisa J. Laplante, law professor and human rights scholar and
researcher and interim director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
at the University of Connecticut, who will speak on `Post-Conflict
Recovery and Transitional Justice;'
- Steven Rosenthal, professor of history at the University of
Hartford, who will speak on `The Proliferation of Genocides in the
20th Century;'
- Mari Firkatian, professor of history at the University of Hartford's
Hillyer College, who will speak about `Remembering the Armenian
Genocide;'
- Shyamala Raman, professor of economics and international studies at
the University of St. Joseph, who will speak on `Vision 20/20 in
Rwanda and the Millennium Development Goals;' and
- Sara Brown, doctoral candidate in Holocaust and genocide studies at
Clark University, who will speak on `The Genocide in Rwanda:
Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers and Recovery.'
For further information please visit: http://www.hartford.edu/
March 8, 2013 Friday
Connecticut: Symposium: `After the Trauma of the Holocaust and Genocide"
Hartford
University of Hartford, The State of Connecticut has issued the
following press release:
On Tuesday, March 12, following a visit to campus by Rwandan President
Paul Kagame, the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies will host a
symposium titled `After the Trauma of the Holocaust and Genocide:
Survival, Memorialization, and Reconstruction.'
The symposium will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Wilde Auditorium. The
program is free and open to the public, but you must reserve a seat by
contacting the Greenberg Center at 860.768.4964 or [email protected]
During the symposium, distinguished scholars from New England
universities will discuss genocide and Holocaust education. They are:
- Avinoam Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish
History and director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization at the
University of Hartford, who will moderate the discussion;
- Lisa J. Laplante, law professor and human rights scholar and
researcher and interim director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
at the University of Connecticut, who will speak on `Post-Conflict
Recovery and Transitional Justice;'
- Steven Rosenthal, professor of history at the University of
Hartford, who will speak on `The Proliferation of Genocides in the
20th Century;'
- Mari Firkatian, professor of history at the University of Hartford's
Hillyer College, who will speak about `Remembering the Armenian
Genocide;'
- Shyamala Raman, professor of economics and international studies at
the University of St. Joseph, who will speak on `Vision 20/20 in
Rwanda and the Millennium Development Goals;' and
- Sara Brown, doctoral candidate in Holocaust and genocide studies at
Clark University, who will speak on `The Genocide in Rwanda:
Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers and Recovery.'
For further information please visit: http://www.hartford.edu/