ACCLAIMED SCHOLAR BLOXHAM TO LECTURE ON HOLOCAUST, VIOLENT TRADITIONS IN EUROPE

Targeted News Service
October 7, 2008 Tuesday 1:36 AM EST

Clark University issued the following press release:

The Clark University Modern History Colloquium and The Strassler
Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present
"Integrating the Holocaust into a European History of Violence,"
a talk by acclaimed scholar Donald Bloxham on Wednesday, October 22,
at 4 p.m. in the Rose Library at the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne
Street, Clark University Campus.

In his talk, Bloxham will discuss the moving away from the metaphysical
questions of the uniqueness of the Holocaust and will consider the
Holocaust in the context of a violent continent-Europe in the first
half of the 20th century-and will examine ways in which it fits and
does not fit into broader patterns of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Bloxham is a professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland. He recently spent a year with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, DC conducting research for a book-length
project entitled "The Final Solution: A Genocide and its Contexts"
and was the Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence.

Bloxham, 34, is the youngest full professor of history in the United
Kingdom. Prior to his appointment to the University of Edinburgh
faculty, Bloxham was research director of London-based charity the
Holocaust Educational Trust. In 2007, his book "The Great Game of
Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman
Armenians" was awarded the Raphael Lemkin Award by the International
Association of Genocide Scholars.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information,
contact 508-793-8897.

The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies reaches beyond the boundaries of the University: to educate
professionals of many fields about genocide and the Holocaust; to
provide a lecture series free of charge and open to the public; to use
scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous
past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of
issues ranging from the importance of intervention in genocidal
situations today to the significance of state-sponsored denial of
the Armenian genocide and the well-funded denial of the Holocaust.