Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Genocide by Famine? The Cambodian and Ukrainian Cases Compared

DateTimeLocation
Thursday, November 6, 20086:00PM - 8:00PMExternal Event, Combination Room
Trinity Collge
6 Hoskin Avenue

Series

Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture

Description

Alex Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of “Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide”(California, 2005) and five edited or co-edited collections, “Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation”(Duke, forthcoming), “Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia” (Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007), “Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide” (California, 2002), “Genocide: An Anthropological Reader” (Blackwell, 2002), and “Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions* (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently working on several other book projects, including an edited volume, “Local Justice”, a book on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, and a book on the politics of memory and justice in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide. He serves as an Academic Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, on the International Advisory Boards of the “Journal of Genocide Research” and “Genocide Studies and Prevention”, on the Executive Board of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, as the editor of the Palgrave book series, “Culture, Mind, and Society,” and as the Second Vice-President and Executive Board member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars.


Speakers

Alex Hinton
Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark.


Main Sponsor

Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine

Sponsors

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch > Congress, Toronto Branch

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

Southeast Asia Seminar Series

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