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Lecture
“Story-Telling, Silence, and Silencing: Descendants of Holocaust Survivors and Nazi Perpetrators”
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Kent Seminar Room, Cohen Lasry House
4 p.m.
Lecture by Dan Bar-On, Greenberg Distinguished Visiting Scholar and David Lopatie Professor of Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Bar-On is also co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East).
Lecture
“The Disarmament of History: Israel-Palestine”
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center
8 p.m.
Lecture by Dan Bar-On, Greenberg Distinguished Visiting Scholar; David Lopatie Professor of Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Bar-On is also co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East).
Lecture
“Native America in the 21st Century: Out of the Mists and Beyond the Myths”
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center
7:30 p.m.
W. Richard West Jr., director of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution will deliver this lecture. This event is co-sponsored with Clark’s History Department.
Lecture
“Can We Prevent the Next Genocide?”
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Cohen Lasry House, Kent Seminar Room
4 p.m.
Barbara Harff, Proventus Distinguished Visiting Professor and Professor of Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy will deliver this lecture.
Lecture
“Germans Abroad: The Herero and Armenian Genocides and the Origins of the Holocaust”
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Cohen Lasry House, Kent Seminar Room
4 p.m.
Eric Weitz, Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair at the College of the Liberal Arts and director of the Center for German and European Studies, University of Minnesota will deliver this lecture. This event is co-sponsored by Clark’s History Department.
Book event
“From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa and the Third Reich”
November 10, 2005
Tilton Hall, Higgins University Center
7:30 p.m.
Peter Hayes, Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University presents his new book.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
All events are sponsored by the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. They are free and open to the public and are followed by public receptions.
For more information, call 508-793-8897, or visit the calendar on the
Center’s Web site at
www.clarku.edu/departments/holocaust
for a complete listing of events.