LEADING HOLOCAUST HISTORIAN AND SCHOLAR TO DELIVER LECTURE

Targeted News Service
March 16, 2009 Monday 5:07 AM EST

Clark University issued the following press release:

Bauer will explore the view of the Holocaust as possibly the most
extreme form of genocide, and he will assess comparisons between
the Holocaust and recent genocidal situations. Bauer is Professor
Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem, and a member of the Israel Academy of
Science. He is also the Honorary Chairman of the International Task
Force on Holocaust Education. He has authored 14 books and some 90
articles on the Holocaust.

Bauer’s talk serves as the keynote address at the first-ever
International Graduate Students’ Conference. The conference was
collectively envisioned by the Center’s Ph.D. candidates to provide a
forum for students from around the globe to present original research
on the Holocaust and other genocides to an audience of peers and
scholars. Their purpose is to foster an international community of
future scholars.

The conference also celebrates the centennial of Sigmund Freud’s
visit to Clark University, the sole American University where he
lectured. Freud, who famously escaped Nazi persecution, delivered five
lectures at Clark as part of a series that recognized the University’s
twentieth anniversary of graduate education. The doctoral conference
honors Freud’s visit and marks the Strassler Center’s 10-year
anniversary of offering doctoral education.

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 genocides 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.

Dedicated to teaching, research, and public service, the Center trains
the next cadre of Holocaust historians and genocide studies scholars
of the future, teachers, Holocaust museum directors and curators, and
experts in non-governmental organizations and government agencies. The
establishment of this Ph.D. program has been acclaimed by experts in
the field as the most decisive step to date in furthering scholarship
about the Holocaust and other genocides, particularly the Armenian
Genocide.

For more information about the lecture and the conference, call
508-793-8897.