Please see the Journey to Auschwitz page for details.
Inside Auschwitz-Birkenau; photo from the Spring 2014 Study Abroad
AUTHOR
Vicky Harris
“Denying Rwanda: Genocide and Genocide Denial in the 21st Century” and “Gender and Genocide”
October 14, 2013
Dr. Adam Jones
Two lectures by pioneering genocide scholar Adam Jones: “Denying Rwanda: Genocide and Genocide Denial in the 21st Century” and “Gender and Genocide.”
Adam Jones is a political scientist, writer, and photojournalist based at the University of British Columbia. He is executive director of the nongovernmental organization Gendercide Watch. He was chosen as one of “50 Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide” for the book of that name.
Dr. Jones is best known for his work in comparative genocide studies and his pioneering analyses of gender within genocidal violence. He is author of the leading textbook in the field, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, and author or editor of numerous other works on violence and crimes against humanity, most recently The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (Routledge, 2013).
Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America: The Fortieth Anniversary of the Coup in Chile
September 23, 2013
Speaker: Jeffrey Bortz
Professor of Latin American History, Appalachian State University; survived arrest and torture by Gen. Pinochet’s police during the 1973 coup d’etat.
Spring 2013 Events
Categories: News
March 1-8
Bearing Witness to the Past: A Journey to Auschwitz
March 1
The Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies participated in the “2nd Annual College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Forum on Human Rights” at Virginia Tech. Seven UNC Charlotte undergraduate students presented research papers at the forum.
April 7
Yom HaShoah event at the Jewish Community Center of Charlotte:
“UNCC Reflections from Auschwitz”: A panel of students from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte share their experiences as participants in the recent Study Abroad program in Poland
April 7, 2013, event at the Jewish Community Center of Charlotte
April 24
Talk and Discussion with Yiddish language and culture expert Miriam Isaacs
Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland College Park; Research Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
“A Common Language in Uncommon Times”
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library, Shalom Park, Charlotte
Fall 2012 Events
Categories: News
October 24
“Women´s Empowerment and Challenges in Guatemala”
MARIA PACHECO lecture & discussion on international development, sustainable self-empowerment, and her work with Mayan women artisans and others in Guatemala
Ms. Pacheco has recently been featured as “one of 12 visionaries igniting idealism into action” in the book Hearts on Fire (by Jill Iscol, with a forward by Bill Clinton).
She formed Kiej de los Bosques, an organization that works with artisans to develop their designs and expand their businesses, linking rural communities to markets around the world. Maria is also developing a program (for the UN) that will generate sources of income for communities living in or around natural World Heritage Sites, while protecting the surrounding ecosystem.
October 29
Hamdija Custovic of the local Bosnian Muslim community and regional representative of the Bosniak Congress of North America speaks on the Bosnian genocide
A memorial wall at Potocari cemetery with the names of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
November 15
“Defiance”: film-showing with discussion; part of International Education Week
December 3
Lecture and discussion with Holocaust survivor Suly Chenkin
