Dr. O’Brien is visiting professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens and includes extensive research on the Armenian Genocide conducted in Armenia and Turkey.
Panel Discussion & Reception
Prof. Jan Wouters (Jan Monnet Chair & Professor of International Law, KU Leuven)
Prof. Harold Honkju Koh (Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School)
Consul-General Filip Vanden Bulcke (Belgian Consul-General to NYC, 2022-Present)
Ambassador Dirk Wouters (Belgian Ambassador to the US (2016-2020)
Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School)
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY: “MY LANGUAGE IS NOT MY LANGUAGE. THIS IS WHY IT IS CALLED MY LANGUAGE.”
READING + CONVERSATION
APRIL 2 2024, 53 WALL ST, RM. 208
Low levels of social trust are widely seen as an impediment to economic development and social cohesion. Trust is measured mainly via surveys: metrics are used extensively in cross-national studies and percolate back to inform societal debates. However, the way in which trust is empirically approached is subject to two problems: measurement bias and the relation between attitudes and behavior. We address both problems focusing on Greece, currently ranked as one of Europe’s least trusting societies.
Dr. Anna Kruglova is Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. Anna has a PhD in International studies from Queen’s University Belfast. She also holds an MA in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London and MSc in Security Studies from UCL.
George Syrimis grew up on the island of Cyprus. After completing his military service, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Cornell University where he completed his B.Sc. in Education in 1990. He subsequently pursued graduate work at Harvard University where he studied Modern Greek, Classical Greek and Modern Spanish literature. His dissertation on the poetics of C.P. Cavafy’s love poems was entitled “”Try to Guard Them, Poet”: Homoeroticism and the Poetics of Opacity in C. P.
with panelists
Arman Tatoyan, Ph.D. (Law), Professor, Chair of the Master of Arts in Human Rights and Social Justice (HRSJ) Program, American University of Armenia
Armen Marsoobian, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University
Karnig Kerkonian, J.D., founding partner, Kerkonian Dajani LLP; Armenian delegation to the ICJ
Tamar Hayrikyan, J.D., Clinical Supervisor, University Network for Human Rights
The European Studies Council and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale present a talk by Dr. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes (Central European University; Austria / Federal University of Minas Gerais; Brazil) on “Gender in the Courtroom: Overlooked Factors in Decision-Making and Their Impact on Rights Adjudication.”
Lunch at 11:45am ET, talk at 12:00pm ET
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
Co-Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Please join us for a conversation to celebrate the publication of Maurice Samuels’s new book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and CEO/Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Janine was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in Iraq pre and post invasion, the Arab Spring, and finally Syria. Her field work for her most recent book took her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.
