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This seminar examines neighbourly violence from historical and political science perspectives, with specific emphases on the Nazi genocide and on genocide and political violence in Africa, via the concepts of "perpetrators", "bystanders", and "rescuers".
The seminar is free and open to all; registration is recommended. For further information go to www.sas.ac.uk/fratricide.html or email kirrily.pells@sas.ac.uk
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: "Fratricide and Fraternite: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity"
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Seminar 3: Perpetrators/Bystanders/Rescuers
Friday 14th May, 2010
Room ST273, Stewart House, University of London
2:00pm Session 1
What Do We Know about Violence Between Neighbours?
Stathis N. Kalyvas, Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Explaining Divergent Paths of Genocidal Violence
Scott Straus, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Cultural History Approach to Perpetrators
Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway
Chair: Damien Short, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study
3:45pm Session 2
A Different Kind of 'Perpetrator'? Functionaries, Facilitators and Beneficiaries of Nazi Policies of Persecution
Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History, University College London
Sons of the Soil: Autochthony, Indigeniety and Violent Politics in Kenya's Rift Valley
David M. Anderson, Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford
Chair: Lars Waldorf, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York
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