This Mellon Sawyer seminar series organized by the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London explores the causes and consequences of neighbourly atrocities across history, cultures, and continents.

2:00pm Session 1

Spiritual Insecurity and Neighbourly Violence: Resisting Satanic Bloodsuckers in Malawi
Adam Ashforth, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan

Neighbourly Denunciation and State Violence in Germany, 1933-1939 Paul Moore, Sawyer Seminars Graduate Fellow, Birkbeck College

Chair: Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study

3:30pm Session 2

Neighbours Denouncing Witches in Early Modern Europe
Julian Goodare, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh

Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Day of Wrath" (1943)
Claire Thomson, Lecturer in Scandinavian Film & Head of Scandinavian Studies, University College London

Chair: Lars Waldorf, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York