Genocide and Human Rights Webinar Series Winter 2021 Session, from The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (IIGHRS)
The Zoryan Institute's free webinars are back. The Winter 2021 series kicks off today, March 2, 2021. These webinars are lead by scholars and experts in fields relating to genocide and human rights studies. They consist of a short presentation and a Q&A session with the scholar.
Winter 2021:
Genocide & Human Rights Webinar Series, Winter 2021 - Draining the Sea: Counterinsurgency as an Instrument of Genocide.
This webinar, featuring Cheng Xu, will examine the case studies of the Rwandan and Guatemalan Genocides to demonstrate how genocide is operationalized through counterinsurgency. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zni5X43xT7mw8I4CUVL7Kg
Stalin's Activists: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor.
This webinar, featuring Daria Mattingly of the University of Cambridge, will introduce the audience to the Holodomor. She will analyze the perpetrators of the "Great Famine" that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 20th century. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NvJky9FbRCK7Bx64lCFWNQ
Erasing the Rohingya: Genocide and Identification Documents in Myanmar
This webinar, featuring John Quinley of Fortify Rights, will give an introduction to the Rohingya genocide and explore administrative tools used to erase the Rohingya. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ztn_k8hsTJWkZ8vPIVArZw
Becoming Human Again: An Oral History of the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi
In this webinar, co-authors Donald Miller, Lorna Touryan-Miller, and Arpi Miller will discuss their most recent publication -- Becoming Human Again: An Oral History of the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi. The contributors will focus on trauma and the aftermath of the genocide, illustrating these topics through in-depth interviews of survivors. They will also provide a comparative perspective of the Armenian Genocide. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3gsL3fUqTPOA_C-NLXvUxw
Genocide and International Accountability
Grant Shubin of The Global Justice Center will be discussing genocide and international accountability. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zcf9seOSSF2YAJfMTyBo3g
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