Genocide In Our Time: It Can Happen Here
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
