Panelists
Panelists
Panel Two. New Approaches to Education and Art
about Genocide and its Prevention
about Genocide and its Prevention
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is the Marsha Raticoff Grossman Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she also founded the world’s first academic, graduate-level Genocide Prevention Certificate Program. She is former President of Genocide Watch and is former First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She received her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Columbia University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on the Holocaust, comparative genocide, gender, sexual violence, war, human rights, imperialism and genocide prevention and has lectured and published widely on these topics. She has a background in practical genocide prevention work and has presented at the Lemkin Seminars in Genocide More
Prevention, hosted by the Auschwitz Institute of Peace and Reconciliation, as well as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mass Atrocity Education Workshops. She has spoken on a number of ocassions at the United Nations, including at the inaugural Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of This Crime. Her book on the subject of gender and genocide prevention is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is the Marsha Raticoff Grossman Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she also founded the world’s first academic, graduate-level Genocide Prevention Certificate Program. She is former President of Genocide Watch and is former First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She received her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Columbia University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on the Holocaust, comparative genocide, gender, sexual violence, war, human rights, imperialism and genocide prevention and has lectured and published widely on these topics. She has a background in practical genocide prevention work and has presented at the Lemkin Seminars in Genocide More
Prevention, hosted by the Auschwitz Institute of Peace and Reconciliation, as well as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mass Atrocity Education Workshops. She has spoken on a number of ocassions at the United Nations, including at the inaugural Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of This Crime. Her book on the subject of gender and genocide prevention is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Alexander Hinton
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University
Alexander Hinton is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including, most recently the Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016) and The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018). In recognition of his work on genocide, the American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Professor Hinton is also a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13) and was a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2011-13). In 2016, he served as an expert More
witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
Alexander Hinton
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University
Alexander Hinton is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including, most recently the Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016) and The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018). In recognition of his work on genocide, the American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. Professor Hinton is also a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13) and was a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2011-13). In 2016, he served as an expert More
witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
Tali Nates
Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at many conferences including at the United Nations in New York in 2016 and is also a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books, among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015) and Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science, Monash University, South Africa. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler.
Tali Nates
Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at many conferences including at the United Nations in New York in 2016 and is also a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. She published many articles and contributed chapters to different books, among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015) and Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social Science, Monash University, South Africa. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, Tali’s father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler.
Rachel Killean
Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast
Rachel Killean is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests center responses to international crimes and mass human rights violations. She is currently an investigator on two projects researching transitional justice issues within Cambodia. The first: ‘Restoring Cultural Property and Communities after Conflict, examines the destruction of the Cham group’s cultural heritage during the Khmer Rouge regime. The second: ‘Whose Voices are Heard?‘ examines representations of victimhood within sites of dark tourism in Cambodia. Rachel is also interested in responses to environmental harm and sexualized and gender-based violence, and in particular in the ways in which international criminal law has addressed these specific forms of violence. Her book, ‘Victims, Atrocity and Justice: Lessons from Cambodia’ was published by More
Routledge in July 2018.
Rachel Killean
Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast
Rachel Killean is a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests center responses to international crimes and mass human rights violations. She is currently an investigator on two projects researching transitional justice issues within Cambodia. The first: ‘Restoring Cultural Property and Communities after Conflict, examines the destruction of the Cham group’s cultural heritage during the Khmer Rouge regime. The second: ‘Whose Voices are Heard?‘ examines representations of victimhood within sites of dark tourism in Cambodia. Rachel is also interested in responses to environmental harm and sexualized and gender-based violence, and in particular in the ways in which international criminal law has addressed these specific forms of violence. Her book, ‘Victims, Atrocity and Justice: Lessons from Cambodia’ was published by More
Routledge in July 2018.
Björn Krondorfer
Director of Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University
Björn Krondorfer is the Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. His field of expertise is religion, gender and culture, Holocaust studies and reconciliation studies. Publications include Reconciliation in Global Context (2018); Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (2010); Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism (2009); and Remembrance and Reconciliation (1995). Krondorfer facilitates intercultural encounters on issues of conflict, memory, and reconciliation, and he has presented his research and facilitated workshops around the globe. Serving on several editorial and advisory boards, he was guest professor at the Freie University Berlin, Germany, and a visiting FacultyMore
Affiliate at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He created and designed exhibits on the Jewish Ghetto in Bedzin (Poland) and the Berlin Wall, and curated the art exhibits Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018).
Björn Krondorfer
Director of Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University
Björn Krondorfer is the Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. His field of expertise is religion, gender and culture, Holocaust studies and reconciliation studies. Publications include Reconciliation in Global Context (2018); Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (2010); Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism (2009); and Remembrance and Reconciliation (1995). Krondorfer facilitates intercultural encounters on issues of conflict, memory, and reconciliation, and he has presented his research and facilitated workshops around the globe. Serving on several editorial and advisory boards, he was guest professor at the Freie University Berlin, Germany, and a visiting FacultyMore
Affiliate at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He created and designed exhibits on the Jewish Ghetto in Bedzin (Poland) and the Berlin Wall, and curated the art exhibits Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018).
Sara Elise Brown
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Sara E. Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education where she manages post-secondary education initiatives, outreach, and activism around the globe. She holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Brown has published articles in IFjP, Genocide Studies International, and the Armenian Weekly and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Brown has worked and conducted research in Rwanda since 2004 and is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers.
Sara Elise Brown
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
Sara E. Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education where she manages post-secondary education initiatives, outreach, and activism around the globe. She holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Brown has published articles in IFjP, Genocide Studies International, and the Armenian Weekly and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Brown has worked and conducted research in Rwanda since 2004 and is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers.