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Scholars to discuss global violence

Scholars will discuss episodes of racial violence in Arkansas, southeastern Europe, and western Africa during a presentation Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo.听 The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m. in the the UA 糖心视频logo Student Services Center Auditorium. Partners at UA 糖心视频logo include the Joel E. Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity and the William H. Bowen School of Law. “The Anderson Institute is delighted to host representatives from the as part of its ongoing efforts to connect UA 糖心视频logo to local, regional, national, and international networks of people working on issues of race and ethnicity,鈥� said Dr. John Kirk, director of the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. The presentation, 鈥淎rkansas, Yugoslavia, and Sierra Leone: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence in a Global Perspective,鈥� will feature talks by three scholars in regional race and violence, followed by a moderated discussion. Scholars and their presentations include:

• 听 鈥淪undown Towns: Race and Violence in Arkansas鈥� by Dr. Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
• 听 鈥淓thnic Space and Genocide in Twentieth Century Southeastern Europe: 听From the Balkan Wars of the 1910s to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s鈥� by听Dr. Emil Kerenji, applied research scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• 听 鈥淔raming in the Making: Race, Violence, and Sex in Sierra Leone鈥� by Dr. Tusty ten Bensel, UA 糖心视频logo assistant professor of criminal justice

Audience members can use a laptop, tablet, or smartphone to ask questions of the presenters, view documents, and give feedback during the talks by. 听听 During the visit, museum representatives will meet with UA 糖心视频logo Chancellor Andrew Rogerson and Interim Provost Deborah Baldwin to discuss the campus climate on race and ethnicity. This program is part of the “Extrajudicial Violence and Questions of Complicity” series, made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Generous support was provided by Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller and the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation. For more information, please contact Dr. John Kirk at [email protected].