Encounters with Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies
Tue, Mar 9, 2021, 7 to 8:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
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The Encounters with Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies series invites scholars in the field to share their latest research.
The series is hosted by the Boston University Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies Program and the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
7 – 8:15 PM
- Voicing and Silencing the Memory of Loss: Lullabies and Stories from Armenian Women in Istanbul with Melissa Bilal
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
4 – 5:15 PM
- Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape with David Tollerton
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
4 – 5:15 PM
- New Rwanda’s Campaign Against “Genocide Ideology” with Mark Geraghty
Talk Descriptions
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
7 – 8:15 PM
Melissa Bilal
Voicing and Silencing the Memory of Loss: Lullabies and Stories from Armenian Women in Istanbul
Melissa Bilal will illustrate the capacity of the lullabies sung by Armenian women in Istanbul to produce knowledge, functioning as a survival strategy under the regime of denial following the Armenian Genocide in 1915. She will argue that this knowledge is intimate and affective, bodily and instantaneous. It is a way of knowing “otherwise” that has the potential to form alternative ways to relate with history.
About the Speaker:
Melissa Bilal is a social anthropologist and historian who specializes in music studies. She is currently Distinguished Research Fellow at UCLA Center for Near East Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Ethnomusicology. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
4 – 5:15 PM
David Tollerton
Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape
David Tollerton will provide a broad survey of twenty-first century Holocaust memory in British public life. A particular focal point will be a new memorial project in central London and the ways in which its development has reflected Britain’s religious-secular landscape.
About the Speaker:
David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. He was recently awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on religious responses to the Holocaust. In 2020, Routledge published his book, Holocaust Memory and the Religious-Secular Landscape of Contemporary Britain.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
4 – 5:15 PM
Mark Geraghty
New Rwanda’s Campaign Against “Genocide Ideology”
An examination of New Rwanda’s on-going campaign against “genocide ideology,” which is prohibited by law as “thoughts” of ethnic hatred that threaten the recurrence of genocide. Mark Geraghty’s work analyzes the narratives of those imprisoned for this crime and their inability to reconcile with this new apparatus of state terror.
About the Speaker:
Mark Geraghty is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago and has held doctoral research fellow positions at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
About the Series
Boston University’s Encounters with Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies is presented by the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies program and the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. The talks are free and open to the public.
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