December 17, 2025 • 12:30 pm
In Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars, Dr. Edward Westermann critically examines the parallels Hitler drew between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and the westward expansion of the United States known as Manifest Destiny. Westermann shows how both...
December 17, 2025 • 12:29 pm
Jim Waller, the Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College (New Hampshire), speaks on “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder,” also the title of one of his most influential and pathbreaking studies....
December 17, 2025 • 12:28 pm
Dr. John K. Roth, Edward Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, is a renowned and prolific scholar of philosophy, religion, and Holocaust Studies. He served as the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide,...
December 17, 2025 • 12:27 pm
In a public online lecture organized by the Center, Hasan Nuhanovic, a survivor of the Srebrenica Genocide in Bosnia and former UN translator for the Dutch Batallion stationed in this Bosnian town, speaks on “The Srebrenica Genocide, the Role...
December 17, 2025 • 12:20 pm
This panel served to honor the 1.5 million lives lost in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. April 24 marks the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the official Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. Globally recognized as committed by the Ottoman Empire and...
December 17, 2025 • 12:15 pm
Has Russia committed genocide in Ukraine? While Hinton provides his answer to this question through the conflict in Ukraine and other genocides, his presentation also explores the question of genocide itself in terms of the history of the concept and its political...
December 17, 2025 • 12:13 pm
Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Dr. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at MIT and a specialist in modern Turkish and Armenian history, gave a talk on the past and present denial of the Armenian...
December 17, 2025 • 12:12 pm
Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Professor Emerita in Native American Studies at California State University East Bay) speaks on “Settler Colonialism in Appalachia.” Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, memoirist, public speaker, and author of the...
December 17, 2025 • 12:10 pm
The Center invited members of the Appalachian State University community to its first research colloquium of the fall semester 2020. The event provided ample opportunities to discuss the translation and editing of Leonid Petrovich Bolotov’s memoir Twenty Years...
