Fall 2005 Genocide Studies Seminars

Genocides of Indigenous Peoples

Thursdays 1.30-3.20 p.m.,
ISPS conference room B012, 77 Prospect St.,
New Haven

January 26	Profs. Benjamin Foster and Karen Foster, Yale University, editors of Iraq Beyond the Headlines (World Scientific, 2005) The Iraq War and the Future of the Past
February 2	Pamela de Condappa, King’s College, Cambridge, UK ‘Cultural Genocide’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an archaeological perspective: Destroying Material Culture, Destroying Identity?
February 9	Prof. Christian Tomuschat, Humboldt University Berlin, Coordinator, Guatemalan Commission on Historical Clarification (CEH) Genocide in Guatemala, 1981-83
February 16	Laura Saldivia, University of Buenos Aires and University of Palermo Law Schools, Argentina Argentine ‘Soft Vengeance’ since the Restoration of Democracy
February 23	Marcie Mersky, Director, Access to Justice Program, Soros Foundation-Guatemala/SIDA; former member, Guatemalan Commission on Historical Clarification, Truth-seeking in Transitions: Comparing two experiences in Guatemala
March 2	Prof. Arman Grigorian, Wesleyan University Genocidal Violence as a Response to Intervention
March 23	Taylor Owen, Oxford University The U.S. Bombing of Cambodia, 1965-75: New Data
March 30	Dori Laub, Deputy Director (Trauma Studies), Genocide Studies Program Slave Labor and the Holocaust Experience: Update on a Current Videotestimony Project
April 6	Prof. Ervin Staub, Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Rwanda: Understanding the Roots of Genocide, Healing, Reconciliation and Peaceful Reconstruction
April 13	Prof. Benjamin Lapp, History, Montclair State University, New Jersey The Jews in Germany after the Holocaust
April 20	Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar and Doron Ben-Atar, authors of What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust (University of Virginia Press, 2006) “Whose Holocaust is it Any Way?”