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The Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies (School of History, Philosophy & Politics, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia) publishes the "ITNetwork: International Network on Holocaust and Genocide."

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, 105 Jones Hall, 27 Pleasant Street Southeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 http://www.chgs.umn.edu

The Institute for the Study of Genocide (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019, USA) publishes "The ISG Newsletter". ISG Newsletter #24 now available on the Internet at http://www.isg-ags.org/newsletters/24/index.html

The International Center for Ethnonationalism and Ethnopolitics (The City College of the City University of New York, History Department, Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, N.Y. 10031, USA) publishes "The Genocide Forum: A Platform for post-Holocaust Commentary."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (9760 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA) publishes "Response: The Wiesenthal Center World Report."
www.wiesenthal.com

The Struggle for Reconciliation in Norway:

Lectures by Berit Reisel

November 17 - 19, 2004

Dr. Berit Reisel’s leadership and vision led the Government of Norway to restore assets stolen from the Norwegian Jewish community and to establish the Norwegian Holocaust History Museum and the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Norway. She is a member of the Executive Board of the European Council of Jewish Communities representing all four Nordic countries and works in Oslo as a professor, a writer, and a psychoanalyst.

Lecture 1: Remedying Injustice and Nurturing Diversity: The Struggle for Post-Holocaust Reconciliation in Norway
A lecture by Dr. Berit Reisel

Wednesday, 17 November 18h00-20h15
D.B. Clark Theater, Hall Bldg., 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Lecture 2: The History of the Holocaust in Norway
A lecture by Dr. Berit Reisel

Thursday, 18 November 16h15-17h30
Room H-415, Hall Bldg. 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Lecture 3: Planning Oslo's New Holocaust Museum: Issues and Dilemmas in Human Rights Education
A workshop by Dr. Berit Reisel

Friday, 19 November 12h00-13h30
Room LB-608, Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Co-sponsored by Concordia University’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Department of History and Department of Political Science

Genocide, Millennialism, and Symbolic Expression in New Mexico (1680-1694) and Upper Peru (1780-1782)
Nicholas Robins, Ph.D, Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University

Wednesday, October 6, 2004
8:30 P.M.
ROOM H-820
THE HENRY F. HALL BUILDING

The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University invites you to attend a lecture presentation by Nicholas Robins, Ph.D. , Visiting Scholar , Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina who will speak on 'Genocide, Millennialism, and Symbolic Expression in New Mexico (1680-1694) and Upper Peru (1780-1782)'

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Leadership, Charisma and Exterminatory Movements: Case Studies of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Great Rebellion of 1780-1782
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Symbolic Discourse and Exterminatory Movements:
The 1680 and 1696 Pueblo Revolts of New Mexico and the 1780-1782 Great Rebellion of Peru and Upper Peru
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The role of Justice and Accountability in Cambodian Reconciliation

Youk Chhang, Director, Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Tuesday, February 10, 2004
8:30pm
Room H-110, Hall Building.
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Press conference: Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, 1932-1933: Western Archives, Testimonies and New Research

Monday, November 10, 2004
11.00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Faculty Lounge H-767, Hall Building,
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Press conference launching the new book, Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, 1932-1933: Western Archives, Testimonies and New Research (Toronto: Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, 2003), Wsevolod W. Isajiw, editor

"Lacking Conviction."

An article written by Juliet O'Neill appearing in the Ottawa Citizen, April 13, 2002.

"After losing a high-profile court case in 1994, the federal government developed a new strategy to go after killers, torturers and other fugitives from brutal foreign regimes who live in Canada. The results, admits one expert, have been 'extremely disappointing."

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Karin Doerr, a Research Associate of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the co-author, with Robert Michael, of the just published volume, Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich (Greenwood Press, February 2002) ISBN 0-313-32106-X; 504 pages; US$79.95.

This book is the first comprehensive English dictionary of this kind for research, study, and reading about Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Robert Michael is Professor of European History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he has taught the Holocaust for 25 years. He has published over 50 articles on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, and several books, including The Holocaust Chronicle (1999) and The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary (1998). He is recipient of the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson prize for the "most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field" (1997).

MIGS Research Associate Karin Doerr teaches German at Concordia University in Montreal and is a teacher in its Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Women's Studies. She is a consultant to the web site Women and the Holocaust and has published educational material on integrating the Holocaust into the university curriculum of German in Shedding Light on the Darkness: A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust (2000) and Hearing the Voices: Teaching the Holocaust to Future Generations (1999). Her research into the use and impact of the language of the Third Reich includes survivors' recollections of this language.

IN THE NEWS

ABC-CLIO announces the publication in December 1999 of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Genocide edited by Israel W. Charny. ca. 700p. US$ 150.00. ISBN 0-87436-928-2. The more than 200 entries represent the work of more than 90 renowned authorities from countries around the world. Orders may be sent to: ABC-CLIO, 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA, 93116-1911
USA, or: www.abc-clio.com

United States Institute of Peace, East Timor Peace Agreements. Includes additional documents from the United Nations.

PAST EVENTS

23 November 2001, MIGS Workshop

Conceptions of Justice and Moral Regeneration: The Treaty of Versailles Revisited

Paper presented by Prof. Catherine Lu, Department of Political Science, McGill University

16 November 2001, MIGS Workshop

France and Operation Turquoise Reconsidered: Accomplice to the Rwanda Genocide or Defender of Le Devoir d'Ingérence?

Paper presented by Carol McQueen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Group in International Security, Departments of Political Science, McGill University and University of Montreal

2 November 2001, MIGS Workshop

Preliminary Observations on the Nature of Genocidal Massacres: Indonesian Borneo, February-March 2001
Paper presented by Michael Innes, M.A. Candidate in History and Graduate Research Fellow, MIGS.

9 November 2001, MIGS Workshop

Minorities, Expulsions and State Persecution: A Comparative Analysis of the Expulsion of Jews from 15th Century Spain and the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972.
Paper presented by Professor Meir Amor, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Concordia University

June 2001

International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference
The fourth global was held at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) from 10 to 12 June 2001.

List of Papers: http://www.isg-ags.org/conferences/200ags-schedule.html\

List of presenters emails: http://www.isg-ags.org/conferences/conf_emails.html

23 March 2001, MIGS Workshop

CHALLENGES FACING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: THE LEGACY OF SOMALIA FOR RWANDA AND BURUNDI TODAY (Original Version, 2000)
Paper presented by Professor Frank Chalk, History Department, Concordia University, and Co-Director of MIGS.

6 February 2001, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Committee on Conscience

CHALLENGES FACING THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION: THE LEGACY OF SOMALIA FOR RWANDA AND BURUNDI TODAY

Paper presented by Professor Frank Chalk, History Department, Concordia University, and Co-Director of MIGS.
http:www.ushmm.org/conscience/events

International Affairs and Human Rights Reading Group

13 February 2002
LB 614-1
Noon

Rwanda and The New Banality:
Bystanders, Bureaucracy, and the Structure-Agency Debate

"Bureaucracy" served as both shield and sieve for the international community before, during, and after April 1994. Arguments have been made that bureaucratic pathologies altered the flow and texture of intelligence, diverted or reframed personal ethics, aided in deferring to their institutional mandates the accountability of individuals who could have made a difference, or were even causally linked to conditions within Rwanda. What lessons have we learned? Where might further evidence take us? To what extent can the debate be considered analogous to similar arguments in Holocaust historiography? The crossover between the old functionalist-intentionalist paradigm and the role of bystanders would seem to suggest the need for a revised approach to legal accountability that satisfies a liberal internationalist agenda.

FEATURED READINGS

Barnett, Michael, and Finnemore, Martha. "The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations." International Organization. Vol. 53, No. 4 (Autumn 1999): 699-732. Available through J-STOR.

Barnett, Michael N. "The U.N. Security Council, Indifference, and Genocide in
Rwanda." Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 4, No. 4 (1997): 551-578.