PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Studies Program
Ms. Gloria Caudill, Administrator
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
[email protected]/734-763-0622
Professor Bloxham Lectures on the "Organization of Genocide"
Professor Donald Bloxham of Edinburgh University, UK, discussed the
topic "Organization of Genocide" during a public lecture held at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on Wednesday, March 19.
In an innovative approach to the study of genocides, Professor Bloxham
focused on issues such as the methods used to implement a genocide and
the categories of people who do the actual killings, using examples from
the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and others cases. Most
importantly, Professor Bloxham dissected the relationship between the
state and genocide.
The lecture was organized by the Armenian Studies Program at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and co-sponsored by The Frankel Center
for Judaic Studies at the same university.
Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University.
At the age of 34, he is the youngest full professor of history in the
UK. He is the winner of the 2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize, the 2007
University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Award, and the 2007 Raphael Lemkin
Award for Genocide Scholarship.
Among other works, Dr. Bloxham is the author of Genocide on Trial: War
Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory, (Oxford
University Press, 2001); The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism,
Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford
University Press: 2005); Genocide, the World Wars, and the Unweaving of
Europe (forthcoming, Vallentine, Mitchell and Co., 2008). With Mark
Levene, he is editor of the forthcoming ten-volume Oxford monograph
series Zones of Violence. He is also author of nearly fifty articles and
book chapters.
During the current academic year Professor Bloxham is J.B. and Maurice
C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
