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November 16, 2018
On November 16, 2018, the Cambodian and international judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ruled that the former Khmer Rouge regime headed by...
July 2, 2018
The Genocide Studies Program deeply mourns the passing of Dr. Dori Laub.  A co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and of the Genocide Studies...
May 17, 2018
A YaleNews piece highlights GSP founding director Ben Kiernan’s discovery of rare 19th-century Cambodian-language texts while working in the French colonial archives in...
Adama Dieng address students at Yale University, 25 April 2018
April 26, 2018
On Wednesday, April 25, Adama Dieng, Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations and Special Advisor to the Secretary General on Genocide Prevention, delivered the...
April 8, 2018
Luke O’Brien, author of “The Making of An American Nazi,” will deliver the first Charles E. Scheidt Family fund lecture of the year.  His talk is entitled   ”Extremism in the...
March 26, 2018
A diverse collection of scholars gathered at Yale on March 8 and 9 to discuss how post-violence memorialization is increasingly unmoored from state control, physical space,...
March 2, 2018
March 8   Keynote Address of the Genocide Studies Program symposium, Memorialization Unmoored: “Memorialization with Meaning: commemorating lives lost, preserving difficult...