Incitement to Genocide Freedom of Expression and Social Media: The Balance of the Unbalanced?
7:00-9:00 pm, Sunday, December 8, 2019
Harvard University, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium
On the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, AGBU NE and NAASR invite you to a panel discussion with world experts on Dec. 8th 7:00PM to 9:00PM at Harvard University.
Panel Participants
Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. He current serves as the Coordinator of the Krikor Guerguerian Online Archive Project at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Dr. Kılıçdağı’s special interests are inter-communal interaction in multi-ethnoreligious societies, citizenship and minorities, non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, the history of citizenship and military service, historical sociology, and philosophy of history.
Dr. Jermaine O. McCalpin is Assistant Professor, Chair of African and African–American Studies Program, New Jersey City University. He is an internationally recognized expert and consultant on transitional justice, genocides and reparations. Dr. McCalpin research interests include truth commissions, commissions of enquiry and political accountability, reparations for historic injustice such as slavery, Native American and Armenian genocides.
Dr. Henry Theriault is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University. He is founding co-editor of the peer-reviewed Genocide Studies International (International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies and University of Toronto Press). Dr. Theriault serves as the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Moderated by Marc A. Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).
CO-SPONSORS
AGBU New England
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)