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Genocide Studies Program
Director: Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History
Yale University has now hosted intensive work in the field of Genocide Studies
for eighteen years (1994-2012). First, the Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) was
established in 1994 at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), now
the MacMillan Center. Since January 1998, the Genocide Studies Program (GSP) has
expanded the CGP’s work into general, comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy issues
relating to genocide. An affiliate of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and
sponsored by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale
Law School, the GSP conducts six research projects, holds regular Thursday faculty
seminars and occasional conferences at Yale’s Institution on Social and Policy Studies,
and maintains an award-winning multi-lingual website www.yale.edu/gsp
As in previous years, a Google search for “genocide studies” (conducted June 28,
2012) continued to give the No. 1 ranking to “Genocide Studies Program/Yale
University,” among 2,070,000 results. Similarly, a June 28, 2012, Google search for
“Cambodian genocide” put the “Cambodian Genocide Program/Yale University” in first
place among 3,430,000 ranked links.
In Memoriam Paula Hyman
In December 2011, the Genocide Studies Program mourned the untimely loss of a
longstanding member of its Steering Committee, Professor Paula Hyman (Professor of
History and Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale). Prof. Hyman, an outstanding scholar
who published ten books about the Jewish experience focusing especially on Jewish
women’s history, contributed greatly to the GSP since she joined its first Steering
Committee in 1998. She is sadly missed.
Faculty Appointments
In 2012, Dr. David Simon, a member of Yale’s Political Science Department and
director of the GSP’s Rwandan Genocide Project, became GSP Associate Director, after
serving as Acting Director in 2010-11. The GSP also expanded its Steering Committee,
which now comprises faculty from Yale, Clark University, and Southern Connecticut
State University, representing ten disciplines:
Ben Kiernan (A.Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of
International and Area Studies, Yale), Director
Professor Dori Laub (Psychiatry, Yale), Deputy Director (Trauma Studies)
Dr. David Simon (Political Science, Yale), Associate Director
Professor Ivo Banac (History, Yale)
Dr. Jasmina Besirevic-Regan (Sociology, Yale)
Professor Ned Blackhawk (History/American Studies, Yale)
Professor Susan Cook (Anthropology, Phokeng, South Africa)
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Professor Debórah Dwork (Director, Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University)
Dr. Maryam Elahi (Director emerita, Human Rights Program, Trinity
College, Hartford, CT)
Professor Kai Erikson (Sociology, Yale)
Professor Harvey Feinberg (History, Southern Connecticut State
University)
Professor Geoffrey Hartman (Comparative Literature, Yale)
Professor Armen T. Marsoobian (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State
University)
Professor David Pettigrew (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State
University)
Professor Claude Rawson (English, Yale)
Professor James C. Scott (Political Science/Anthropology, Yale)
Professor Timothy Snyder (History, Yale)
Professor Adam Tooze (History, Yale)
Professor Jay Winter (History, Yale)
Staff, Consultants, and Sponsors
Staff and consultants during the academic year 2011-12 included Kristine
Mooseker (Business Manager), Abraham Parrish and Stacey Maples (mapping
databases), and Molly Simpson (website). We also wish to thank Frederick J. Iseman,
Esq., Marc Schlossman, Esq., and Prof. Ian Shapiro, the MacMillan Center’s Henry Luce
Director, for their support of the GSP’s work; and the Institution on Social and Policy
Studies for hosting the Thursday GSP seminars since 2001.
GSP Books and Other Publications
The Program is currently considering the publication of two new GSP Working
Papers. The thirty-six Working Papers published since 1998 are accessible online at
www.yale.edu/gsp/publications .
GSP Director Ben Kiernan’s prizewinning book Blood and Soil: A World History
of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale UP, 2007) is to be published
in Italian and Spanish translations, now in progress.
The Genocide Studies Seminar Series, 2011-12
During 2011-12, the GSP seminar series focused on the collection and use of different
types of testimony in genocide studies. The Thursday seminar program follows:
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Narratives of Genocide: The Collection and Use of Testimony in Genocide Studies
October 6
Collecting and Archiving Genocide Testimony: A Panel
Discussion
Featuring: Taylor Krauss (Founder, Voices of Rwanda), Socheata
Poeuv (CEO, Khmer Legacies; Yale SOM), Joanne Rudof
(Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale).
October 14
Friday 6.15 pm,
rm 202 Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Ave
Cambodian Genocide Memory Project
Presentations of summer 2011 video-testimony projects conducted
in Cambodia
by Jennifer Giang; Naima Sakande; Vina Seelam; Liza Starr;
Carol Te; Annie Yi; Hannah Zeavin.
October 27
Laura Iandola (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern
Illinois University)
Seen/Unseen: Visual Narratives of the Indonesian Genocide
November 10
Edina Becirevic (Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and
Security Studies at the University of Sarajevo; Founder of the
Center for Justice and Reconciliation, Sarajevo)
Searching for the Truth: The Reliability of Perpetrators',
Witnesses', and Victims' Testimony in Bosnia
November 16
7 PM, 208 Harkness
Screening of Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit followed by
discussion with Gilbert Ndahayo, Filmmaker.
November 30
6:10 PM, Rm 127
Law School
Film screening of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, followed by
discussion with Sandra Schulberg, Co-creator Producer (cosponsored with the Schell Center).
February 2
James Dawes (Department of English, Macalester College)
Confessions of a War Criminal
February 9
Rm A001 in ISPS,
77 Prospect St.
Kate Doyle (National Security Archive)
Documenting the Unthinkable: Official Records as Evidence
in Guatemala's Genocide
April 12
Sonja Knopp (Genocide Studies Fellow, Yale University)
History without Memory - Creating a `Trauma Narrative' out
of Video Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
April 26
Omer Bartov (Department of History, Brown University)
The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Testimonies of
Coexistence and Genocide from Buczacz, Galicia.
GSP Research Projects
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The GSP conducts these research projects on various cases or aspects of genocide:
The Cambodian Genocide Program (director: Kiernan)
The Yale East Timor Project (director: Kiernan)
The Rwandan Genocide Project (director: Simon),
The Colonial Genocides Project (director: Kiernan)
The Holocaust Trauma Project (director: Laub), and
The Genocide Rescuers’ Project
The GSP website includes products of these projects and other GSP work at
www.yale.edu/cgp and www.yale.edu/gsp , two of Yale’s most visited websites which
receive a total of over 1 million hits annually. These extensive GSP websites now include
homepages in twelve foreign languages.
Outreach
During the year 2011-12, former GSP Visiting Fellow Leora Kahn, director of Proof:
Media for Social Justice, toured a photography exhibit on rescuers (in Rwanda, Poland,
Cambodia, and Bosnia) that she had produced while at the GSP from 2007-2010. The
exhibit had premiered in Kigali, Rwanda, in January 2009. In July 2011, the Proof
exhibition opened in Sarajevo, co-sponsored by the International Committee of the Red
Cross and the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia. In November 2011, it opened in Phnom Penh in
combination with workshops conducted by the Cambodia-based NGO, Youth for Peace.
To accompany the exhibit, Youth for Peace and Proof co-published a bilingual 32-page
illustrated booklet, The Rescuers: picturing moral courage, in English and Khmer, which
details the stories of rescuers during the Holocaust and the genocides in Cambodia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda.
In July 2012, Leora Kahn opened the Rescuers exhibit in Melbourne, Australia. She
has received a U.S. Fulbright Award which she plans to take at the University of Haifa,
Israel.
New GSP Grants
In 2011-12, the Jocarno Fund renewed its longstanding generous support for the
GSP. We are extremely grateful to Mr. Marc Schlossman and the Jocarno Fund board.
With its help, the GSP website now features translations of our webpages in Armenian,
French, German, Bahasa Indonesia, Khmer, Portuguese, Spanish, Tetum, Thai, Italian,
and Japanese.
David Simon and Ben Kiernan’s proposal for a new GSP seminar series on
Video-Narratives in the Study of Genocide: Filming Perpetrators, Victims,
Survivors, Rescuers, and Witnesses received Kempf Grant funding from the MacMillan
Center for 2012-13.
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GSP Director’s Activities, 2011-12 (Kiernan)
GSP Director Ben Kiernan concurrently serves as Chair of the Council on
Southeast Asia Studies at the MacMillan Center.
In 2011, Kiernan was the subject of a chapter in the new book, Fifty Key Thinkers
on the Holocaust and Genocide, by Paul A. Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs
(Routledge, London and New York), pp. 159-164.
In June and July 2011, Kiernan was a Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub,
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. In 2012, he was appointed as a Research Affiliate at the
Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut. He continues to serve on the
Editorial Boards of the journals Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, Critical Asian Studies,
and Human Rights Review; and on the Advisory Boards of the Institute for Genocide
Awareness and Applied Research (Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida), and of Proof: Media for Social Justice.
Publications, 2011-12
Ben Kiernan, “Saiban ni chokumen suru Kumeeru Ruuju: Kambojia jenosaido o
megutte” (“The Khmer Rouge Faces the Court: On the Cambodian Genocide”), in Ishida
Yūji and Takeuchi Shinichi, eds., Jenosaido to gendai sekai (“Genocide and the Modern
World”), Tokyo, 2011, pp. 295-328 (in Japanese).
Ben Kiernan, “The Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979,” Chapter 9 in Centuries of
Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, ed. Samuel Totten and William S.
Parsons, revised and updated Fourth Edition, Routledge, New York, 2012, pp. 316-53.
In-press:
Spanish and Italian editions of Blood and Soil: Rome (Corbaccio Editore) and
Madrid (Laétoli), 2013.
“The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979,” in Genocide, to be published by the
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, Amsterdam University
Press, 2012 (English text and Dutch translation).
“Settler Colonies, Ethnoreligious Violence, and Historical Documentation:
Comparative Reflections on Southeast Asia and Ireland,” in Jane Ohlmeyer and Micheál
O'Siochrú, eds., Ireland 1641: Contexts and Reactions, Manchester University Press,
2012.
Public Presentations, 2011-12
“The Concept of Genocide and Early Modern Ireland,” invited commentary on the
papers presented at the colloquium, “Historicizing Human Rights in the Early British
Empire: Violence and Meaning in England and Ireland, 1500-1700,” Human Rights
Institute, University of Connecticut, November 4, 2011.
“The Global History of Genocide,” the George J. Mead Annual Lecture in History,
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, November 9, 2011.
Presentation on panel entitled “Criminal and Immigration Law: A Comprehensive
Analysis of Deportation in the Cambodian Refugee Community” at the 11th annual
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conference of the Penn Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Philadelphia,
February 4, 2012.
“Images of the Global History of Genocide,” invited lecture in the History Speaker
Series, The New School, New York, April 16, 2012.
Presentation on the Guatemalan genocide, in a concluding plenary roundtable entitled
“Beyond Holocaust Exceptionality: Theorizing Genocide Studies,” at the conference
History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, in honor of Prof. Saul
Friedlander, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, April 21-23, 2012.
“The Global History and Documentation of Genocide: Integrating Southeast Asian
Case Studies,” lecture at the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, NY, April 26, 2012.
GSP Deputy Director’s Activities, 2011-12 (Laub)
Publications, 2011-12
Laub, D. (2012). “The Place of Testimony in Holocaust Historiography” (in German). In
Gehrard Botz (ed.), Routes to Mauthausen. Koln, Germany: Böhlau publisher
Laub, D. (2012). “Testimony as Life Experience and as Legacy.” In Goodman, N. &
Meyers, M. (eds.), The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and
Traces of the Holocaust. New York, NY: Routledge
Laub, D. (2012). “Foreword.” In Pisano, N. G. (ed.), Granddaughters of the Holocaust:
Never forgetting what they didn’t experience. Boston, MA: Academic Studies
Press
Public Presentations, 2011-12
October 13th, 2011
November 11th, 2011
September 24th, 2011
April 17th, 2012
Laub, D. “Re-establishing the Internal “Thou” in
Testimony of Trauma.” Lecture Presentation at Boston
College's Center for Jewish-Christian Learning. Boston,
MA.
Laub, D. “Re-establishing the Internal “Thou” in
Testimony of Trauma.” Lecture Presentation at the
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA.
Laub, D. “Traumatic psychosis: Narrative form of the
muted witness.” Lecture Presentation at the Western New
England Institute of Psychoanalysis. New Haven, CT.
Laub, D. “The work of collecting Holocaust Testimony.”
Lecture presentation at Eliezer Society at Yale University.
New Haven, CT.
GSP Associate Director’s Activities, 2011-12 (Simon)
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Publications, 2011-12
“Can the Common African Defense and Security Policy Prevent Genocide?”
Forthcoming monograph to be published by the Institute for Security Studies (Addis
Ababa) in fall 2012. (With Jason Warner)
“Building State Capacity to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Implementing Pillars One and Two
of the R2P Framework” to be published by the Stanley Foundation as part of their Policy
Analysis Briefing series in fall 2012.
Public Presentations, 2011-12
“Analyzing and Responding to Mass Violence” for the United Nations Office of the
Special Advisors for the Prevention of Genocide and for the Responsibility to Protect,
New York, October 7, 2011. (With Adam Jones)
“The Challenges of Post-conflict, Transitional Governance” for UN Institute for Training
and Research/ United States Institute of Peace seminar on Governance in Transition
Environments, New York, May 17, 2012.
“A Framework for Preventing Genocide,” “The United Nations and the Prevention of
Genocide,” and “Case Study: Côte d’Ivoire” for the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and
Reconciliation’s Ralph Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention, in Auschwitz
(Oswieçim, Poland), May 30-31, 2012.
Yale classes on the subject of Genocide taught by GSP-affiliated faculty, 2011-12
Jasmina Besirevic, Sociology, “Genocide and Ethnic Conflict” (ER&M 362a/ GLBL
384a/INTS 384a/SOCY 363), Fall 2011.
Ben Kiernan, History, “Genocide in History and Theory,” History 980/International
Relations 652, Fall 2011.
David Simon, Political Science, “The Rwandan Genocide in Comparative Context,”
Political Science 447/African Studies 447, Fall 2011.
David Simon, “Post-Conflict Politics,” Political Science 347/African Studies 347, Spring
2012.

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