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The Dornsife 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Cluster at the University of Southern California presents a two day workshop (September 7 - 8, 2012) bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the topic of genocide resistance. Our focus for this year is on resistance of groups or networks.
All are welcome to attend. More information available at: http://dornsife.usc.edu/2020-resistance-international-workshops/
The conference program includes:
Keynote address: Mark Roseman: Rescued from Memory: Hidden Networks and Hidden Jews in the Holocaust
Walter Richmond: Circassian Efforts to Broker Peace with Russia
Vahram Shemmassian: The Decision and Process of the Musa Dagh Resistance to the Armenian Genocide
Tanja von Fransecky: Group Escaping from Deportation Trains in France, Belgium and the Netherlands
Michael Bazyler: Lawyers as Resisters to the Holocaust; Lawyers as Perpetrators of the Holocaust; Lawyers as Bystanders to the Holocaust
Jadwiga Biskupska: The Polish Intelligentsia and the Primacy of Jewish Victimhood
Susanne Beer: Informal Networks of Rescuers in Nazi Germany
Tim Gallimore: The Role of External Groups in Combating Genocide Ideology and Genocide Denial: The Case of Rwanda
Oscar Edoror Ubhenin: Informal Networks and Resistance to Mass Violence in Nigeria
The workshop will conclude at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, where we will hear Hassouna Mosbahi read from his novel “A Tunisian Tale,” in Arabic and in English.
Please RSVP to aliberma@usc.edu
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