In keeping with its mission, the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is pleased to offer an online educational platform to engage students, scholars and the general public in research and publication in the field of Genocide and Human Rights.
Webinars in the Fall 2020 series will be led by leading Genocide and Human Rights Studies scholars and will cover a range of conceptual themes and specific case studies.
Browse the sessions below and register through Zoom to reserve your place!
Week One: November 3rd @ 2:00 pm EST
Future war: the legal and civil-military implications of military artificial intelligence, lethal autonomous weapons, and enhanced ‘super soldiers’
Scholar: Maureen Hiebert
This webinar will discuss how AI and autonomous weapons are likely to be used in the not-so-distant future, the drive to enhance soldiers’ performance through technology, and what the fielding of these technologies might mean for the legal regulation of war, civil-military relations, and the prevention and perpetration of genocide.
Week Two:November 10th @ 2:00 PM EST
Indigenous Peoples of Brazil: A Case for Genocide?
Scholar: Flávio de Leão Bastos Pereira
Indigenous nations in Brazil are facing worsening violations of their human rights such as invasions of their traditional lands which is a fundamental basis of their lives and cultures; fires that destroy biomes caused by invaders; state violence and government proposals that restrict their rights. Is it possible to identify a genocidal process?
Week Three:November 17th @ 2:00 PM EST
Immigrant Rights are Human Rights
Scholar: Tanya Golash-Boza
This webinar details a wide variety of human rights violations ensconced in U.S. immigration policy as well as lays out the steps we need to take to align U.S. immigration policy with international human rights standards.
Week Four: November 24th @ 3:30 PM EST
Oral History, Human Rights, and the Law: the importance of preserving testimony for justice efforts
Scholar: Anoush Baghdassarian
Join Anoush Baghdassarian, Harvard Law student and Co-founder of the Rerooted Archive, to learn more about how oral history is increasingly used in human rights work, and particularly how it can contribute to both restorative and retributive justice efforts in post-conflict societies.
Week Five: December 1st @ 4:00 PM EST
The Yazidi Genocide – Children’s Experience of a 21st Century Genocide
Scholar: Caroline Schneider
This webinar will shed light on the Yazidi genocide, especially on the forcible transfer of children during this event. It will also explore the role of researchers when studying a contemporary genocide.
