Fall 2009 Seminar series

Genocide, Modernity, and Resistance

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

In Memoriam: Alison Des Forges

October 1

Charles Desnoyers, History Department, LaSalle University

China’s Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) and the Question of the Modernity of Genocide

October 15 
(N.B. 7-9:30 pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall 63 High St., rm 102)

 Film screening:

The Geography of Genocide in Bosnia: Redeeming the Earth
a new film by Jonah Quickmire Pettigrew and David Pettigrew (sponsored by the Balkan Film Series)

October 22   

Prof. Alan Whitehorn, Political Science, Royal Military College of Canada

The Armenian Genocide: From Political History to Poetry

October 29   

Johanna Bodenstab, University of Kassel

Arrival at Auschwitz: Diverging Narrative Perspectives in the Joint Testimony of a Mother and a Daughter

November 19  

David Nersessian, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Genocide of Political Groups