Past Events & Replays

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The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention regularly host guest speakers, panel discussions, and large-scale conferences at The American University of Paris. 

Topics include genocide, Jewish history, mass violence and human rights to colonialism, gender, democracy and acts of resistance. Conversations are often held within the context of education and research, as well as collective and individual memory, as well as historical, ideological or psychological narratives, and more. The centers events have incorporated a multitude of cultural contexts and national backgrounds, including France, Germany, Armenia, Ukraine, Poland, Armenia, Rwanda and more.

Below, you can find some of our most recent events, including conferences, workshops, lectures, and more. You can also find a list of replays we have available.

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Past Events
at the Schaeffer Center

2024

PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE SHOAH WORKSHOP II

Monday and Tuesday, October 7-8, 2024

 

GUEST LECTURE WITH IBRAHIM SALAMA

Friday, October 4, 2024

 

ACTS OF WITNESSING ON FILM

Monday, June 17, 2024

 

ETHICAL USE OF DIGITAL ARCHIVES

Friday, May 17, 2024

 

FAITH, HUMAN RIGHTS & CO-EXISTENCE

Thursday, May 2, 2024

 

SYRIA ROUND TABLE II: SYRIAN GULAG: INSIDE ASSAD’S PRISONS

Monday, April 8, 2024

 

GENOCIDE AND GENEALOGY: HOW ARMENIAN FAMILY TREES SPEAK OF 1915

Friday, April 5, 2024

 

A CONVERSATION WITH PEACE ACTIVISTS ABOUT THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN WAR IN GAZA

Thursday, March 28, 2024

 

SYRIA ROUND TABLE I: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPUNITY IN SYRIA

Thursday, February 29, 2024

 

PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE SHOAH WORKSHOP

Thursday February 1st to Friday, February 2nd, 2024

2023

AFTER THE DARKNESS? HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS’ EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL JOURNEYS IN THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD

Thursday November 30, 2023

 

JUSTICE LAB PRESENTS: LAW IN ACTION

Wednesday November 22, 2023

 

ARCHIVE TESTIMONY USE IN THE CLASSROOM: A WORKSHOP FOR FACULTY AND STAFF

Wednesday November 22, 2023

 

OVER YET UNRESOLVED: THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT, FROM SELF DETERMINATION TO ETHNIC CLEANSING

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

 

VIOLENT TURNS: SOURCES, INTERPRETATIONS, RESPONSES

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

 

GUEST LECTURE: CAROLINE IBOS AND ERIC FASSIN

Friday, April 14, 2023

2022

FABRICATING THE PAST: SYMBOLIC TOPOGRAPHY OF THE FORMER WARSAW GHETTO

Monday, December 5, 2022

 

GUEST LECTURE: DR. SEAMUS POWER ON FIELD SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Monday, October 10, 2022

 

THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF PERSECUTION: PICTURES OF THE HOLOCAUST

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

 

REINVENTING/RECONSTRUCTING COSMOPOLITANISM IN CONTESTED SPACES AND POST-CONFLICT ZONES

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

 

COLLECTING LIFE STORIES IN THE JEWISH WORLD, 19TH-21ST CENTURIES

Thursday, May 19, 2022

 

VIRTUAL FORUM: UNDERSTANDING THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

 

WOMEN, POWER AND VIOLENCE: RESEARCHING SEXUAL CRIOMES DURING THE HOLOCAUST IN TIME OF RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE (ONLINE)

Friday, April 22, 2022

 

FRANCOPHONIE THROUGH DECOLONIALITY

Tuesday April 12, 2022

 

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH JOANNA WAWRZYNIAK

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

 

LE REFORMISME ET LA PLACE DE LA FEMME DANS L’ISLAM CONTEMPORAIN

REFORM AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAM (HYBRID)

Thursday, March 10, 2022

 

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH DR TOM PETTINGER

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

 

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH CHANA TEEGER

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

2021

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH THOMAS VAN DE PUTTE

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

 

GUEST LECTURE: BETA UMUBYEYI MAIRESSE AND JAKUTA ALIKAVAZOVIC ON SPECTERS OF VIOLENCE

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

 

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH LEA DAVID

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

 

GUEST LECTURE: CLIMATE JUSTICE AND HISTORICAL EMISSIONS WITH PROF. DR. LUKAS. H. MEYER

Friday, October 29, 2021

 

FIGURING MEMORY: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION WITH REBECCA HALE

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

 

GUEST LECTURE: PROF. WOLF GRUNER ON “IMPUDENT JEWS” THE FORGOTTEN INDIVIDUAL JEWISH RESISTANCE IN HITLERS GERMANY (ONLINE)

Thursday, June 10, 2021

 

EMANCIPATION AND THE UNJUST PAST (ONLINE)

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

 

PART II OF NARRATING VIOLENCE: MAKING RACE, MAKING DIFFERENCE (ONLINE)

Monday, March 29, 2021

 

PART I OF NARRATING VIOLENCE: MAKING RACE, MAKING DIFFERENCE

Monday, March 15, 2021

 

GUEST LECTURE: PROF. LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU ON “USING CONSOLING WORDS FOR OUR BUTCHERED NATION”: ARMENIAN FEMINISTS’ POST-GENOCIDE EXPECTATIONS FROM THEIR TURKISH COUNTERPARTS

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

2020

SHAPES, LEGITIMATION, AND LEGACIES OF VIOLENCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND TURKEY: FROM ABDULHAMID II TO ERDOGAN

Monday, November 22, 2020

 

OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS? HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS’ EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL JOURNEYS IN THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD (ONLINE)

Monday, September 21, 2020

 

GUEST LECTURE: VAHE TACHJIAN ON THE DIARIST AS A WITNESS TO CATASTROPHE

February 12, 2020

2019

INTERGENERATIONAL MEMORIES OF IMPORTANT EVENTS: THE INTERSECTION OF THE PERSONAL AND THE HISTORICAL - WILLIAM HIRST

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 - 18:30

 

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP: EARLY HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE IN THE JEWISH PRESS, FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE 1960S

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019 - 10:10

 

PATTERNS OF INVALIDATION IN AUGUSTINE'S PASTORAL CARE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 - 17:00

 

IS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE “MODEL” JUSTICE?

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 - 17:30

 

UNJUST BORDERS: MIGRATION TO AND WITHIN EUROPE AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019 - 18:30

 

A WORK OF MOURNING ALWAYS INCOMPLETE: CLAUDE LANZMANN’S ARCHIVE OF THE CATASTROPHE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2019 - 18:30

 

THE NINE: THE TRUE STORY OF FEMALE RESISTANCE FIGHTERS - GWEN STRAUSS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 - 18:30

 

COMPARATIVE LENSES: VIDEO TESTIMONIES OF SURVIVORS AND EYEWITNESSES ON GENOCIDE AND MASS VIOLENCE

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019 - 09:00

 

MUSLIMS IN NAZI EUROPE

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019 - 15:00

 

LATE SUICIDE AMONG HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN ISRAEL: TWO LIFE STORIES- AMIA LIEBLICH

TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019 - 18:30

 

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF THINKING ABOUT THE 1915 ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN TURKEY? - HAKAN SECKINELGIN

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 - 18:30

 

FRANCE, A LABORATORY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM(S)?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 - 18:00

 

JUSTICE AFTER GENOCIDE: PROSECUTING HUTU PERPETRATORS - ALAIN AND DRAFOZA GAUTHIER

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019 - 17:30

2018

THE ETHICAL POTENTIAL AND DANGERS OF NARRATIVES: SIX EVALUATIVE CONTINUUMS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 - 18:30

 

WHAT RESEARCH ON HMONG REFUGEE GIRLS IN THE U.S. AND THAILAND HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT GENDER IN HIGHER EDUCATION

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 - 18:30

 

REFUGEES AND THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE CALAIS JUNGLE AND BEYOND

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 - 18:30

 

WORDS THAT KILL CONFERENCE

MONDAY, MAY 28, 2018 - 00:00

FORCED CONFRONTATION: THE POLITICS OF DEAD BODIES IN GERMANY AT THE END OF WWII

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 - 18:00

ORDERS OF VIOLENCE

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2018 - 13:00

 

WHEN DENIAL BECOMES STATE POLICY

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2018 - 17:30

 

BIG DATA AND TESTIMONIES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2018 - 17:30

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: HOME AS A PLACE FOR ANTI-JEWISH PERSECUTION

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 - 09:00

2017

ROGER FRIE: WITNESSING THE CRIMES OF OUR GRANDPARENTS: REMEMBERING AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE WAKE OF THE HOLOCAUST

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE: RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017 - 14:15

 

MARK ROSEMAN SPEAKS ON "RESISTANCE AND RESCUE IN NAZI GERMANY"

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017 - 16:00

 

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR NETWORKS: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 - 09:30

 

VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 - 09:00

 

THE BRAINS THAT PULL THE TRIGGERS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 - 09:00

 

HELIOS AZOULAY CONCERT

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 - 19:00

 

ORAL HISTORY OF A BI-NATIONAL COMMUNITY: CHALLENGING FACTORS AND UNIQUE OUTCOMES WITH AMIA LIEBLICH

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 - 17:30

 

CLIMATE CHANGE GUEST LECTURE

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND THE REASSEMBLING OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, WITH MIKAEL RASK MADSEN

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017 - 18:00

 

OLIVIER LECOUR GRANDMAISON DISCUSSES "COLONIAL MASS VIOLENCE AND/OR COLONIAL GENOCIDE?

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017 - 18:00

 

BOOK LAUNCH & LECTURE: WHOSE STORY? WHOSE WORLD? LIFE & NARRATIVE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 - 18:30

 

STEPHANIE WOLFE: PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE WITH NEVER AGAIN RWANDA

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 - 14:30

 

BUILDING PEACE AFTER GENOCIDE: LESSONS FROM RWANDA WITH DR STEPHANIE WOLFE

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 - 17:30

 

BECOMING EVIL: HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE COMMIT GENOCIDE AND MASS KILLING, WITH JIM WALLER

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 - 17:30

 

GENS DE PARIS / PEOPLE OF PARIS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE HOLOCAUST BY BULLETS, THE PROTOTYPE FOR MODERN GENOCIDES: YAHAD - IN UNUM’S RESEARCH AND TEACHING RESOURCES

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 - 17:30

2016

FILM SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED RITHY PAHN

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016 - 18:30

 

LEGAL LEGACIES OF GENOCIDE: FROM NUREMBERG TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016 - 09:45

 

TEACHING WITH THE VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE TESTIMONIES

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 - 17:00

 

THE ARCHIVES IN PERSPECTIVE: A PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 - 18:00

 

INTRODUCING THE VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVES: WORKSHOPS LED BY USC

MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 - 17:00

 

FILM SCREENING AND LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF LE CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 - 18:30

 

LECTURE BY JEFFREY SHANDLER: "SEEING AS BELIEVING: WATCHING VIDEOTAPED INTERVIEWS WITH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS"

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016 - 18:30

Event Replays
to Watch Again

Several of the events hosted and organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris are captured on video and shared via the University’s YouTube channel.

You can find the most recent event replays below and a complete list of replays on the Center’s youtube playlist.

Over Yet Unresolved: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, From Self Determination to Ethnic Cleansing
"Impudent Jews" The Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Hitler's Germany | with Wolf Gruner
The Rhetoric of Hate | with Gérard Noiriel
AUP Talk: Armenian Feminists’ Post-Genocide Expectations from their Turkish Counterparts
AUP Events | “The Diarist as Witness to Catastrophe” | with Vahé Tachjian
AUP Events | "Gendered Aspects Of The Armenian Genocide" | with Anna Aleksanyan
AUP Events | "Intergenerational Memories of Important Events" | with William Hirst