The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for聽the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invites you to an evening with聽聽and his musicians at Maison de la Chimie.
Composer, clarinetist, writer, H茅lios Azoulay is the Music Director of the Ensemble de Musique Incidentale. For ten years, he has been interpreting music composed in the concentration camps. His album 芦 鈥� m锚me 脿 Auschwitz 禄, the first in France devoted...
After a brief introduction to the field of oral聽history, Amia Lieblich (Professor of Psychology, Hebrew聽University of Jerusalem) will describe the Jewish-Palestinian聽village Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom that was the subject of her聽study in 2010 and its development since its foundation in 1977.聽She will elaborate on the complicating factors in conducting the聽study, provide its main results and discuss the contribution of聽oral history research for conflict management and alleviation.聽The talk...
"Climate change in a populists' world: can we meet the goals of the Paris Agreement without a World Government?"
Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and co-Director of the Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative. His research focuses on how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate...
Mikael Rask Madsen鈥檚 research is focused on globalization and the role of legal institutions and professionals in these processes. His current research concerns the special interaction between law and global integration, the role and power of lawyers in globalization, the increased importance of supranational legal institutions and more generally, the international transformation of law and authority towards networked expertise.聽
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Nineteenth and early-twentieth century colonialism shaped the modern world in fundamental ways, with effects that are still with us today. By the 1930s,聽more than a third of the world population had been incorporated聽in formal imperial systems whose creation, maintenance and expansion was characterized by structural material and symbolic violence 鈥� the physical violence of conquest and of colonial rule, and the daily experience of suppression and cultural subordination of indigenous peoples...
罢丑别听George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invites students to a discussion with Stephanie Wolfe,聽Assistant Professor at Weber State University, to hear about her work聽in a large scale research project with Never Again Rwanda, a human rights and peace-building organization.聽...
罢丑别听George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention welcomes guest lecture from Stephanie Wolfe,聽Assistant Professor at Weber State University. Dr. Wolfe specializes in international politics and human rights, with an emphasis on genocide, crimes against humanity, and other atrocities.聽 She received her PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies in 2011. Her publications include The...
Dr. James Waller is the Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College (NH).聽The George鈥痑nd Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention聽is聽pleased to be hosting an evening with him to discuss his work on how ordinary people commit genocide and聽how perpetrators step back into the community to try and...
罢丑别听George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention are pleased to host聽an evening with聽Sarah Gensburger. Sociologist of memory and historian of the Shoah in Paris, she is one half of the team who created the collection of聽soundwalks聽Gens de Paris.
Gens de聽Paris is a soundwalks collection recounting events that took place on this street corner, in the...