The Darfur Genocide and Eyewitness Testimony

2019 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series - January 22-May 7, 2019

Study the nature of hate: Prevent the escalation of prejudice into genocide

January 22: THE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Professor Stephen Bittner, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

January 29: THE CONCEPT OF GENOCIDE
Professor Emerita Myrna Goodman, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

February 5: ORDINARY MEN AS PERPETRATORS: A REAPPRAISAL AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Professor Christopher Browning, Ph.D., Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Robert L. Harris Memorial Lecture

February 12: MAKING HUNGARY GREAT AGAIN: STATE BUILDING, MASS VIOLENCE, AND THE IRONIES OF GLOBAL HOLOCAUST MEMORY
Professor Raz Segal, Ph.D., Stockton University
Underwritten by Ivan Barta and Miriam Susan Dregéy

February 19: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Professor Sergio La Porta, Ph.D., CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program
Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture

February 26: CROWS OF THE DESERT: A HERO’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (Film)
Marta Houske, Emmy award-winning filmmaker with
Levon Parian, Armenian Genocide descendant, and Saud Attrache, Druze rescuer descendant
Presented in partnership with the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Underwritten by Carl Van Dyke

March 5: REFUGEES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICT
Professor Alex Alvarez, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
Underwritten by Dennis Judd and by Carol & Ralph Swanson

March 12: ISLAMOPHOBIA AND ANTISEMITISM: DIFFERENCES, PARALLELS, AND CHALLENGES
Professor Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D., Director, The Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan College

March 19: SPRING BREAK (campus closed)

March 26: WHY? EXPLAINING THE HOLOCAUST
Professor Emeritus Peter Hayes, Ph. D., Northwestern University
Underwritten by Pearl & David Furman in memory of Murray & Ruth Mruvka and Gussie & Edward Furman

April 2: THE SECOND GENERATION: A Panel Discussion
Christyne Davidian, Sanders Feldhorn, Dennis Judd, John Kornfeld, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor,
Sonoma State University; and Elaine Leeder, Ph.D., Emerita Professor, Sonoma State University
Sylvia G. Sucher Memorial Lecture

April 9: BECOMING EVIL
Professor James Waller, Ph.D., Cohen Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

April 16th: GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA
Irfan Mirza, Voices of the Bosnian Genocide

April 23: GENOCIDE IN SYRIA
Professor David McCuan, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

April 30: THE DARFUR GENOCIDE AND EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
Alexis Herr, Ph.D., Associate Director,
Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco
Underwritten by Arline Thomas & Myrna Goodman in memory of Lillian Judd

May 7: THE GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA
Her Excellency Mathilde Mukantabana, Rwandan Ambassador to the United States;
Simon Mudahogora, Genocide Survivor; and Ndahiro Bazimya, Genocide Descendant
Alexandre Kimenyi Memorial Lecture
Underwritten by Her Excellency Mathilde Mukantabana & Chiaya Rawlins

Interests: Arts & Culture, Israel, Meetings
Date: 
April 30, 2019
TIME: 
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Location: 
Ives Hall (Warren Auditorium, ground floor)
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Avenue
City: 
Rohnert Park
Cost: 
All lectures are free and open to the public. A daily parking permit ($5.00) is required at all times, but it is not valid in reserved lots. Permit machines accept cash and major credit cards.

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Organized By: 
Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide,
Event Contact Person: 
Barbara Lesch McCaffry
707.585.2291
alliance@sonoma.edu
Speakers: 
Alexis Herr, Ph.D
Alexis Herr, Ph.D., Pearl Resnik Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will speak on The Darfur Genocide and Eyewitness Testimony. Her lecture has been underwritten by Myrna Goodman & Arline Thomas in memory of Lillian Judd.

Dr. Herr received a Ph.D. from Clark University. A native speaker of English, Professor Herr also has proficiency in Italian, German, and Spanish. She held prestigious post-docs fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Professor Herr conducted research that resulted in her study, The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli de Carpi, 1942-1952 (2016). She taught as a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire from 2014-2016. She is currently the Associate Director of the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center in San Francisco.