Spring 2008 Seminar Series

Northwest Darfur: undamaged village (left), half a mile from a destroyed village (right),
identified by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Crisis in Darfur, 2007

Modern Genocide and Contemporary Challenges (II)

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

In Memoriam: Eric Markusen

January 31	Darfur: Failure without End Eric Reeves, Smith College, author of A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide Commentator: David Simon, Political Science and African Studies, Yale (co-sponsored by the Council on African Studies)
February 7	Surviving the Massacre of Srebrenica: Oral Histories Prof. Selma Leydesdorff, Department of Arts, Religion and Culture, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Commentator: Serena Giordano, State University of Milan
February 21	The Armenian Genocide and its Contemporary Implications Dr. Vahakn Dadrian, author of The History of the Armenian Genocide Turkey’s Post-World War I Military Tribunal: A Precedent for Nuremberg Prof. Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota, author of A Shameful Act Turkish Denial as a National Security Concept
March 6	Agencies and Mechanisms of the Stalin Purges Prof. Stephen G. Wheatcroft, History, University of Melbourne, coauthor, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-33 Commentator: Sarah Cameron, History, Yale
April 10	The Question of Genocide in Native American History Prof. Kirk Davis Swinehart, History, Wesleyan University George Washington’s War against the Iroquois Commentator: Prof. Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, History, Yale
April 17	Cambodia: from the 1990s to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal – An Update Prof. Benny Widyono, Economics, University of Connecticut, Stamford, author of Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia