PRESS RELEASE
Clark University
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
ph: 508-793-7635
cell: 508-365-8736

September 13, 2007

Clark University’s Strassler Family Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies announces fall events

WORCESTER, MA- Below are brief descriptions of Fall 2007 events
sponsored by the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies at Clark University. All events are free and are followed by
public receptions. For more information, please visit
, or call 508-793-8897.

Lecture
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
"Who will write our history: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and
the Oyneg Shabes Archive"
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St.
7:30 p.m.
Lecture by Sam Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, Trinity
College

Lecture
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
"Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya"
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St.
7:30 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Elkins, Hugo K. Foster Associate
Professor of African Studies, Harvard University
This event is co-sponsored with Clark’s History and Government and
International Relations Departments

Difficult Dialogues Symposium: Dialogue Between Former Enemies
"Bridging the Impossible?: Confronting Barriers to Dialogue between
Germans, Jews, and Palestinians"
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Dana Commons, Clark University Campus
7:30 p.m.
Julia Chaitin, Senior Lecturer, Sapir Academic College, D.N. Hof
Ashkelon, Israel
Followed by a panel discussion.
This event is co-sponsored by Clark’s Difficult Dialogues program with
the support of Shirley and Robert Siff.

Lecture
Thursday, November 15, 2007
"Concentration Camps in International Law"
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center, 950 Main St.
7:30 p.m.
Jens Meierhenrich, Assistant Professor of Government and of Social
Studies, Harvard University and Associate Professor, Weatherhead Center
for International Law

The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark
University is an exciting forum for education about the Holocaust, the
Armenian Genocide, and other genocides around the globe. Dedicated to
teaching, research, and public service, the Center trains the Holocaust
historians and genocide studies scholars of the future. The mission of
the Center reaches beyond the boundaries of the University: to provide a
lecture series free of charge and open to the public; to educate
professionals of many fields about genocide and the Holocaust; to use
scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous
past; and to engage the world in which we live by providing an educated
voice in the public arena.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research
university with 2,100 undergraduate and 900 graduate students. Since its
founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States,
Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the
International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth
year tuition-free for eligible students. The University is featured in
Loren Pope’s book, "Colleges That Change Lives."
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** photos of speakers are available upon request. Comprehensive
releases on each event (with the exception of the first one listed,
which was already released) are forthcoming.