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Biodiversity is delicious: A look inside the fruit markets of Saint Petersburg

Emily Sigman, MF/MA ‘21, exploring Saint Petersburg’s bustling fruit markets. Emily is spending the summer in Russia studying Advanced Russian with the Yale Summer Session, and conducting research on Saint Petersburg’s unique, multicultural and perennial fruit markets. Behind Emily is a stand containing fruits from Central Asia. Her research aims in part to untangle the myriad ways both the fruits and the people selling them come to Saint Petersburg.

fruit markets of Saint Petersburg

Rescue

This page is still under construction.

In the near future, you will be able to follow the Audio/Visual link on the left menu to access 30 video interviews compiled by Proof: Media for Social Justice with individual rescuers who performed heroic acts of resistance during the Holocaust in Europe, and genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  From their stories, we hope you will learn about the tremendous courage and spirit of resistance that has accompanied genocidal crimes and human rights violations worldwide.

GSP Interdisciplinary Colloquia on Rescuers, 2008 and 2009:

2008 Colloquium:
“Rescuers of Genocide Victims: Research Perspectives for the Future”

2009 GSP-Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics symposium
“Genocide, Rescue and Prevention: Understanding and Fostering Rescue Behavior in the Face of Mass Killing” (May 8, 2009). See the report on this symposium in Bioethics at Yale, 2009-10, pp. 98-101. See the Conference Program and a description of the GSP/Bioethics project here.

GSP-sponsored research on Rescuers:

Mette Bastholm Jensen, PhD dissertation, Solidarity in Action: A Comparative Study of Rescue Efforts in Nazi-occupied Denmark and the Netherlands, Yale University, Department of Sociology, 2007.

“Courage of ordinary heroes on show to stop genocide,” The Australian, July 21, 2012.

Historical Analyses of Rescue

“The Rescue of Norwegian Jews,” by Ragnar Ulstein (1985)

New Publications on Rescue Behavior

Narratives of Rescue

Malka Czismadia (Hungary)
André Trocme (France)
Thérèse Nyirabayovu (Rwanda)

Post-Conflict Research Centre’s (Bosnia) Ordinary Heroes project

Other

Among the contexts not covered elsewhere are understudied genocides (e.g. Bangladesh), near-genocides (e.g., Côte d’Ivoire), contested genocides (e.g.,  Argentina), and mass violence against civilians within the context of other conflicts (e.g., Iraq).

Please note that the selection of cases highlighted on the Genocide Studies Program’s web site is not meant to serve as an exhaustive or “official” list of genocides.  Rather, the topics addressed reflect the interests, linguistic capabilities, and research focuses of GSP personnel, which is necessarily limited.  Moreover, it is not necessarily the task of the scholar to make a determination regarding whether or not a given situation must meet a particular set of criteria to qualify as genocide (although some work is devoted to this approach); nor is it necessary for scholars of genocide to determine that a case qualifies as a genocide before engaging in research on it. In short, the cases covered here may implicate issues related to genocide without necessarily reaching the conclusion that genocide did or did not occur in a given case.