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TORONTO HOSTS GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/169506/
September 3, 2013 - 15:21 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Zoryan Institute's twelfth annual Genocide and
Human Rights University Program (GHRUP) was held in Toronto, Canada,
in August, amid atrocities and human rights violations in Syria,
Egypt, and several countries in the Middle East and Africa.
According to gagrule.net, this year, 22 students from ten countries
met to study with ten distinguished genocide scholars. Many of the
students come from backgrounds where gross violations of human rights
and genocide are part of their national or personal experience,
such as Kurds, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Armenians and Jews.
The Course Director, Prof. Joyce Apsel of New York University, noted,
"Several students who are teachers commented on how much they learned
from watching the pedagogy of different instructors, as well as from
the course content. Other students consulted me and other instructors
about which directions and schools to pursue for graduate education.
They proved to be an outstanding group of students, and it was a
privilege to have two weeks in and out of the classroom to exchange
ideas and interests."
"It was remarkable to see descendants of perpetrator and victim groups
in the Armenian Genocide -students of Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish
backgrounds - find common interests with each other, and within the
academic environment of the program and, based on historical facts,
explore issues of stereotypes, memory, denial and reconciliation
together, seeing each other through the prism of humanity," said a
statement from the Zoryan Institute.
Realizing that there was a significant gap in the university curriculum
concerning genocide, the Zoryan Institute began planning for a unique
course entitled "The Genocide and Human Rights University Program"
in the summer of 2001.
The course ran successfully in Toronto in August 2002 as a pilot
project under the directorship of Lorne Shirinian. It attracted
students from Armenia, Australia, Canada, England, France, Japan
and the United States. The participants finished the course with a
strong commitment to the ideals of human rights, and the desire to
pursue genocide studies at an advanced academic level. Three students
who attended the pilot course made presentations at the prestigious
Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide
Scholars (IAGS) in Galway, Ireland following the course.
The Zoryan Institute and its subsidiary, the International Institute
for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the first non-profit,
international center devoted to the research and documentation of
contemporary issues with a focus on genocide, diaspora and Armenia.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/169506/
September 3, 2013 - 15:21 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Zoryan Institute's twelfth annual Genocide and
Human Rights University Program (GHRUP) was held in Toronto, Canada,
in August, amid atrocities and human rights violations in Syria,
Egypt, and several countries in the Middle East and Africa.
According to gagrule.net, this year, 22 students from ten countries
met to study with ten distinguished genocide scholars. Many of the
students come from backgrounds where gross violations of human rights
and genocide are part of their national or personal experience,
such as Kurds, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Armenians and Jews.
The Course Director, Prof. Joyce Apsel of New York University, noted,
"Several students who are teachers commented on how much they learned
from watching the pedagogy of different instructors, as well as from
the course content. Other students consulted me and other instructors
about which directions and schools to pursue for graduate education.
They proved to be an outstanding group of students, and it was a
privilege to have two weeks in and out of the classroom to exchange
ideas and interests."
"It was remarkable to see descendants of perpetrator and victim groups
in the Armenian Genocide -students of Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish
backgrounds - find common interests with each other, and within the
academic environment of the program and, based on historical facts,
explore issues of stereotypes, memory, denial and reconciliation
together, seeing each other through the prism of humanity," said a
statement from the Zoryan Institute.
Realizing that there was a significant gap in the university curriculum
concerning genocide, the Zoryan Institute began planning for a unique
course entitled "The Genocide and Human Rights University Program"
in the summer of 2001.
The course ran successfully in Toronto in August 2002 as a pilot
project under the directorship of Lorne Shirinian. It attracted
students from Armenia, Australia, Canada, England, France, Japan
and the United States. The participants finished the course with a
strong commitment to the ideals of human rights, and the desire to
pursue genocide studies at an advanced academic level. Three students
who attended the pilot course made presentations at the prestigious
Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide
Scholars (IAGS) in Galway, Ireland following the course.
The Zoryan Institute and its subsidiary, the International Institute
for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the first non-profit,
international center devoted to the research and documentation of
contemporary issues with a focus on genocide, diaspora and Armenia.