The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Second International Graduate Students’ Conferencefor Holocaust and Genocide Studies on March 29 – April 1, presented in partnership with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present interdisciplinary research projects to peers and to established scholars in the field. Doctoral students working on the topic of Holocaust or genocides in Africa, Asia and America will present and discuss their latest research. The conference will reflect a full range of interdisciplinary approaches, concepts, and methods in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with U.S. scholars and others from Denmark, Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Romania and France.
The conference will open with a public keynote address at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 29 in Tilton Hall, 950 Main Street. Dr. Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University, will deliver the opening address, “War and Genocide: The Holocaust as a War Goal or an Obstacle to Victory.”
