ISG HAS A NEW WEB ADDRESS

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Our new email address is: info@instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org

March 16, 2009

MY NEIGHBOR MY KILLER

Screening of a film by Award-winner anne Aghion, followed by Q&A with Anne Aghion, Director and Producer, and jacqueline Murekatete, genocide survivor and founder of Miracle Corners of the World.

Sunday, March 29, 2009, 1pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY, NY

Full details here

March 16, 2009

HEALING THE WOUNDS: SPEECH, IDENTITY AND RECONCILIATION IN RWANDA

Conference at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY

Monday, March 30, 2009

Full details here

January 9, 2009

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

We are genocide scholars gravely concerned about signs of genocide and political murder in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe, through discrimination and terror, has created an economic catastrophe. State-created hyper-inflation has caused famine, though not for Mugabe's partisans. Now cholera is sweeping a country that lacks medicines...

Full text of this letter here.

December 29, 2008 - Now online: The ISG Newsletter, #41, Fall 2008.

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October 26, 2008

THE NEW FACE OF GENOCIDE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

8th Biennial Conference

June 7-10, 2009

Full details here

September 11, 2008

THEY SPOKE OUT: American Voices for Rescue from the Holocaust

The 6th National Conference of the David S. Wyman Institute of Holocaust Studies at Fordham University School of Law

September 21, 2008, 10am-4pm

Full details here

August 20, 2008

60 YEARS GENOCIDE CONVENTION

An Interdisciplinary conference at the Peace Palace, The Hague
Conference Dates: Dec 7-8, 2008

Deadline for registration: 21 November 2008.

July 20, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Conference Dates: 23-26 Apr 2009

Application Deadline: September 15, 2008 -- extended

June 30, 2008 - Now online: The ISG Newsletter, #40, Spring 2008.

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May 30, 2008

The Institute for the Study of Genocide is opening the nominations for the 2007-2008 Lemkin Book Award. The winner will be selected in 2009 and give a lecture on the book in New York City in the fall of 2009.

Nominations requested asap, preferably by July 1, 2008 for books published in 2007 and by November 1, 2008 for books published in 2008. All nominations must be received by December 31, 2008.

February 5, 2008

March 10-11, 2008
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: A FRAMEWORK FOR IDENTITY-BASED ATROCITIES

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, New York City
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January 7, 2008 - Now online: The ISG Newsletter, #39, Winter 2008.

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January 1, 2008

GENOCIDE WATCH: KENYA

Genocide Watch has called a Genocide Alert because of genocidal massacres that are increasing daily in Kenya in the wake of a disputed election between President Mwai Kibaki, who is a member of the Kikuyu ethnic group, and Mr. Raila Odinga, who is ethnically a Luo. -- More

November 9, 2007

Lemkin Award Ceremony -- Full description here

October 11, 2007

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW AND CAN DO ABOUT DARFUR

See Enough-- the project to abolish genocide and mass atrocities.

June 14, 2007 - Now online: The ISG Newsletter, #38, Spring 2007.

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New Publication, March 28, 2007

Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes, revised and updated edition, including new map. Ed. by Joyce Apsel. Published by the Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2007. Full description here.