2015 -- Third International Graduate Student Conference on Genocide Studies: Emerging Scholarship in Holocaust & Genocide Studies 100 Years After The Armenian Genocide

Keynote Lecture: Eric Weitz (City College of New York)

Moderator: Lerna Ekmekçioglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Ümit Kurt (Clark University)
  'Legal' and 'Official Plundering of Armenian and Jewish Properties during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust within a Comparative Perspective"
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• Khatchig Mouradian (Clark University and Rutgers University)
  Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917
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• Asya Darbinyan (Clark University)
  Armenian Genocide and Russian Humanitarian Response
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• Anna Aleksanyan (Clark University)
  The Gender Issue: The Dilemma of Re-Armenization of Women after the Genocide
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Moderator: Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

• Edip Gölbaşı (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Turkey and Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  The 1895-1896 Armenian Massacres in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces: A Prelude to Extermination or a Revolutionary Provocation?
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• Urban Jaksa (University of York, United Kingdom)
  Geopolitics of Genocide: Comparing the Ottoman and Russian Empires’ Ethnic Cleansing Policies against Armenians, Greeks, and Circassians in the Late 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries
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• Varak Ketsamanian (University of Chicago)
  Genocide as a Colonial Tool: The Formation of the Armenian Legion
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• David Leupold (Humboldt University, Germany and Erasmus Mundus Grantee at Eurasian University, Armenia)
  Genocide Memorialization beyond the Ethno-National Divide: Bridging Memories of Armenians, Kurds and Turks in Van, Mush, and Sasun
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Moderator: Debórah Dwork (Clark University)

• Özgür İnan Boztaş (County Court of Gießen, Germany)
  Did Genocide Take Place in the Dersim Region of Turkey in 1938?
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• Theodosis Kyriakidis (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
  The Vatican Archives Reveal the Pontic Greek Genocide
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• Osik Moses (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
  Deportation of the Jewish Population in Palestine during World War I
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• Vahagn Avedian (Lund University, Sweden)
  Memory and Identity Building: A Comparative Study of Post-WWI Turkey and Post-WWII Germany
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Moderator: Matthias Bjørnlund (Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Denmark)

• Antoine Burgard (Université Lumière, France and Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
  Gatekeepers and Foster Families: The Canadian Jewish Congress and the Selection of Holocaust Orphans
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• Tuğçe Kayaal (University of Michigan)
  Social Aspects of the Armenian Genocide: Assimilation and Resistance of the Armenian Orphans during the Genocide
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• Jonathan Neufeld (University of Toronto, Canada)
  Rescue in Albania during the Holocaust: A Case of Cultural Exceptionalism?
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Moderator: Cecilie Stokholm Banke (Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark)

• Eldad Ben Aharon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  A Unique Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide
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• Okan Doğan (Bilkent University, Turkey)
  Two Decades of Genocide Recognition Activism in Turkey: Scholars, Intellectuals and the Media
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• Erik Sjöberg (Stanford University)
  “Right to Memory:” from the Asia Minor Catastrophe to the Notion of the Pontian Greek Genocide
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• Duygu Tasalp (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France)
  The Unionists' Memoirs and the Armenian Genocide
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Moderator: Donna-Lee Frieze (Deakin University, Australia)

• Aminat Chokobaeva (Australian National University, Australia)
  Born for Misery and Woe: Remembering the 1916 Great Revolt in Kyrgyzstan

• Kelly Maddox (Bowland College, Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
  Genocide in the Japanese Empire: Tracing the Genocidal Dynamics of Japanese Imperialism
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• Aberto P. Marti (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
  Interpreting Reconcentration Camps in Cuba (1895-1898): Collateral Damage or Undercover Genocide
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Moderator: Ken MacLean (Clark University)

• Samantha Lakin (Clark University)
  Transitional Justice, Memory, and Memorialization in Rwanda
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• Ornella Rovetta (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  The Akayesu Case (1996-1998), the First International Trial after the Genocide in Rwanda
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• Marie-Anne Weisers (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  The Belgian Trial of Otto Siegburg in 1949, or How a German Policeman, Professional Jew-hunter Was Convicted of a Crime against Humanity
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Moderator: Johanna Vollhardt (Clark University)

• Roni Mikel-Arieli (Hebrew University, Israel)
  Holocaust Memory in South Africa, 1945-1960: The Jews as a “Borderline Community”
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• Katherine Bailey (Bowland College, Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
  The “Unquiet Dead:” Memorializing the ‘Disappeared’ in post-conflict Guatemala
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• Kaya de Wolff (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany)
  “A Difficulty Speaking” : Problems and Challenges of the Memorialization of the Herero Genocide in the Public Media in Germany
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• Koen Kluessien (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Netherlands)
  A Conspiracy of Denial: Serbian Politicians’ and their Unwillingness to Deal with the Troubled Past of the Srebrenica Genocide
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Moderator: Thomas Kühne (Clark University)

• Luca Fenoglio (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  Resisting the 'Final Solution'? The 'Royal Inspectorate of Racial Police' in Nice and the Onset of a Fascist (anti-) Jewish Policy, March - July 1943
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• Andrew Kornbluth (University of California-Berkeley)
  Crowdsourcing Genocide: Comparing Jewish and Polish Experiences of Collaboration, 1939-1944
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• Natalya Lazar (Clark University)
  The Aftermath of the Holocaust: Jewish Survivors and Soviet Policies in Postwar Chernivtsi, 1944-1946
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• Raz Segal (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  Instances of Bystanding: Jews and non-Jews Respond to Each Other’s Plight in Hungary’s Borderlands during World War II
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Moderator: Taner Akçam (Clark University)

Panelists:

• Lerna Ekmekçioglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Donna-Lee Frieze (Deakin University, Australia)
• Cecilie Stokholm Banke (Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark)
• Eric Weitz (City College of New York)