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"Standing Up to Denials and Deniers: Preserving A Genuine Sense of Tragedy and Moral Outrage about the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and All Genocides."
The Lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 18, at 7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow and copies of the Encyclopedia of Genocide will be available for purchase Click here for more information and directions
Teacher and Student Workshop
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
and the School of Education at Webster University
Thursday, April 20 was the one year anniversary of this tragic event. A Panel Discussion was created to address why this event and others like it have occurred and what can be done to prevent similar events in the future.
Michael Hulsizer - Behavioral and Social Sciences - The role of environmental factors such as the media (e.g., TV, Movies,
Music, Video).
Linda Woolf - Behavioral and Social Sciences - Pride and Prejudice: The role of artificially inflated self-esteem and hate.
Donna Campbell - Multidisciplinary Studies - The role that the schools have played in these tragedies. Are there structural
and cultural factors present in the current school system that have played a part in these tragedies?
Tracey McCarthy - Behavioral and Social Sciences/History, Politics, and Law - How have family dynamics have played a
role in these events? What does the law say about who is criminally responsible?
Sherry Falsetti - National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center - Medical University of South Carolina - Surviving
Trauma: The Aftermath of Tragedy. What are likely to be some of the struggles for the students, parents, and teachers who were directly affected by the shooting? This event has likely changed the way those affected view themselves, others and the world.
Tuesday, March 7th
Cosponsored by:
Tuesdays in February February 1, 7:00 PM (Dariusz Jablonski) (Esther Podemski) February 1, 9:00 PM (Robert Wise) February 8, 7:00 PM (Maria Fuglevaag Warsinski) February 8, 8:30 PM (John Anderson & Laura Harrison) (Zemira Alajbegovic) February 15, 7:00 PM (Santosh Sivan) February 15, 8:45 PM (Jasmine Dellal) February 22, 7:00 PM (Barbara Sonneborn) February 22, 8:30 PM (Nick Kurzon) February 29, 7:00 PM (Michael Chandler) (Slawomir Grunberg & Ben Crane) February 29, 9:10 PM (Chantal Akerman) Journey to a Hate Free Millenium February 23, 7:00 PM
Cosponsored by:
Students for a Free Tibet
Cosponsored by:
The Center for International Education
"More and more, civilians are becoming, not just casualties of
conflict but weapons of war, in flagrant violation of humanitarian law.
Especially vulnerable are women, children, the elderly, refugees and
displaced persons whose plight is often compounded by loss of the vital
necessities for survival such as security, shelter, medical care and
access to food and water." - Her Excellency, Mary Robinson, United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Past Events
Dr. Israel Charny
Winifred Moore Auditorium
Letters and Lessons of the Holocaust
Presented by Susan Shear
Stage III, Webster Hall
Webster University
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Noon - 4:00 p.m.
12:00-1:30
Sunnen Lounge
The War Trauma Recovery Project:
Outreach and Psychotherapy Services
Behavioral and Social Sciences Club
Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Presented by the Webster University Film Series and co-sponsored with HREP (Human Rights Education Project)
Photographer
With introduction by Webster University's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights
In 1987, in a Viennese Antique shop, about four hundred color slides were found in mint condition. As it turned out, they had been taken in the Lodz Ghetto by Walter Genwein, the Ghetto's Austrian chief accountant. So consumed by recording his job's achievements, Genwein never realized he was creating one of the most vivid pictorial documents to the "final solution." Genwein meticulously monitored the color and hue of his pictures (as to better reflect his achievements), yet never, not even once did he notice the human faces and suffering of his subjects. (1998, 56 min.)
with
House of the World
Tracing the history of an old family photograph, filmmaker Esther Podemski travels to Poland with a group of her parent's contemporaries. Holocaust survivors, these elders are returning to conduct a memorial service in the Jewish graveyard in their home town, Poddebice. Here they find a destroyed graveyard and eventually discover that all of Poland is all but cleansed of Jews.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Slater (Robert Ryan) is a hard-bitten, racist ex-con given to impulsive acts of violence and fits of depression and self-doubt. Less criminal than the rest of his gang, Ingram (Harry Belafonte) still exudes moral ambiguity. The organizer of the robbery, Burke (Ed Begley) is an ex-cop, ruined when he refused to cooperate with State Crime Investigators for the purpose of pulling off a bank heist, but their resolve is threatened by uncontrollable racial tension. (1956, 96 min.)
Crime and Punishment
With introduction by Webster University's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Nanjing, Mai Lai, Srebrenica...History sadly repeats itself. While the International Criminal Court in The Hague proceeds at its own pace, filmmaker Maria Fuglevaag Warsinski takes action, presenting a searing, moving visual indictment of Radovan Karadzic and General Radko Mladic, orchestrators of the destruction of Srebrenica, the sight of worst civilian massacre in Europe since WWII. Utilizing clandestine, startling footage of the town's final days, Warsinski unflinchingly documents Western guilt and the UN's final, bloody capitulation. Powerful interviews detailing the disparate views of combatants on both sides are woven together with vivid descriptions of the impossible journeys faced by the few civilians who made it out alive. (1998, 75 min.)
Secret People
Secret People recounts the shocking past and present of leprosy in America. It explores the incessant damage of a powerful stigma that destroyed the lives of many in our nation's only remaining leprosarium, but mobilized others to accomplish the remarkable act of transforming their prison into a home. (1998, 58 min.)
with
Within Four Walls
Within Four Walls explores the lives of women who have escaped from violence in their own families and sought help in local shelters in Slovenia. They speak of abuse, violence, rape, and isolation. Zemira Alabegovic paints a picture of hope for women who have come from the depths of despair. (1998, 34 min.)
The Terrorist
Set in present day India, against the backdrop of a mysterious revolutionary movement, the film focuses on Malli, a woman who has lost her entire family to this all-engulfing cause. Devastated and alone, she drowns herself in the rebellion, accepting the ultimate assignment: a suicide-assassination of a local politician. In the final days before the mission Malli rediscovers love, but is it in time? (1998, 95 min.)
American Gypsy
There are one million Gypsies, or Rom, in America, who most people know nothing about. American Gypsy is a feature length documentary which, for the first time, takes a camera in to explore this secretive Romani world and the history it came from. (1998, 85 min.)
Regret to Inform
Regret to Inform presents a unique perspective of a shared bond between women from opposite sides who have survived the emotional aftermath of personal loss in Vietnam. From the Vietnamese women, whose culture seeks to bury personal suffering, to the US women whose culture has collectively buried this tragedy, the filmmaker manages to connect with all on the most intimate level. Stunning archival footage and singular interviews with war widows from both North and South Vietnam and the US present a haunting and decisive clarity that illuminates the soul of emotion, memory, and loss. In Vietnamese and English with English subtitles. (1998, 72 min.)
1998 Academy Award Nominee
Super Chief
Super Chief is a documentary that chronicles an Ojibwa tribal election at the White Earth Indian Reservation in western Minnesota. Filmmaker Nick Kurzon focuses his camera on the drama surrounding the tribe's upcoming election for tribal chairman. With a cast of characters that Hollywood could hardly dream up, the Capraesque story is less an expose of insider politics than a life-affirming character study where democracy prevails. (1998, 75 min.)
Forgotten Fires
Forgotten Fires investigates the burning of two black churches near Manning, South Carolina, by a young convert to the Ku Klux Klan. Frank interviews with the victims, the perpetrators, their families, and people who live in the community transform a simple black and white news item into a complex account of racism, poverty, denial, repentance, and forgiveness. (1997, 57 min.)
with
School Prayer: A Community at War
School prayer is as much a part of us as baseball, apple pie, and mama, says one resident of Potonoc County in Mississippi. So when newly arrived Lisa Herdahl set out to challenge this policy on grounds of religious freedom the whole community turned against her. (1998, 57 min.)
South (Sud)
Originally conceived as a meditation on the American South and inspired by her love of William Faulkner and James Baldwin, Sud was transformed by a racist crime that occured days before her arrival. James Byrd, Jr., a black family man, was severely beaten by three white men, then chained to their truck and dragged three miles through predominantly black parts of the county. Sud investigates this brutal slaying and examines its impact on the community. (1998, 78 min.)
(Brent Scarpo)
Journey to a Hate Free Millenium focuses on many of the recent hate crimes that have captured national attention. Interviews include family and friends of Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, and Columbine High School shooting victims along with well-known political, religious, and entertainment figures. (1999, 90 min.)
Brent Scarpo has worked in Hollywood for the past 15 years as an actor and casting director for such films as Air Force One, That Thing You Do, and The Shawshank Redemption.
presented by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and cosponsored by The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Palden Gyatso
Tibetan Monk
7 pm, Monday,
November 15, 1999 
Palden Gyatso spoke about the 33 years he spent in Chinese jails.
The Center for International Education
Faculty Speaker's Committee
Presented by Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., Behavioral & Social Sciences
Women's Studies Committee
General Studies Committee
Forum on East Timor
Noon
Tuesday September 14, 1999
Sunnen Lounge