CLARK TO HOST THIRD INTERNATIONAL GENOCIDE CONFERENCE NEXT WEEKEND
The Scarlet: Clark University
April 2, 2015 Thursday
by Jenna Lewis
Next week, Clark will host the Third International Graduate Student
Conference on Genocide Studies: Emerging Scholarship in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies 100 Years After the Armenian Genocide. The event
is hosted in conjunction with the Danish Institute for International
Studies, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Copenhagen.
The conference will take place from April 9 to 11.
The keynote address, which is free and open to the public, will be
delivered by Professor Eric Weitz, Dean of Humanities and Distinguished
Professor of History at the City College of New York on Thursday night
in Tilton Hall. Over 80 proposals to participate in the conference
came from around the world, with 36 applicants from 13 different
countries ultimately accepted to the conference.
The conference, organized triennially, provides an international forum
for doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s to present their research. In
addition to Thursday’s keynote address, it will include nine panels
over three days pertaining to genocide studies. Professor Taner Akcam,
an internationally recognized human rights activist instrumental
in raising awareness of the Armenian Genocide, will serve as the
conference advisor. The conference will conclude with a panel
discussion where scholars will present about the future of the field.
For a more information, please visit clarku.edu/holocaust or call
508-793-8897.