We know that the world is a dangerous place and that human beings are capable of horrific acts. After the most destructive war in world history and the coordinated decimation of 6 million European Jews, humanity said “never again.” But it did happen again—in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in Bosnia, and in Sudan. In fact, it was happening for centuries before WW II against Armenians, Haitians, and Native Americans, and the indigenous populations of Latin and South America. Genocide is even happening today in Myanmar. Why is it that humans are so prone to committing genocide, and can we change?
Seventh Annual Global Citizenship Conference:
The Faces of Genocide
Film Series
2018
Location: Upper Viking Lounge, Campus Center
Monday 9 April at 12:30
Hotel Rwanda, a 2004 British-Italian-South African historical drama based on the Rwandan genocide of 1994
Tuesday 10 April at 12:30
Older than America, a 2008 American suspense drama about American Indian boarding schools and the genocide of Native Americans in the USA
Wednesday 11 April at 12:30
The Promise, a 2016 American historical drama based on the 1915 genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
Thursday 12 April from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM—on the day of the conference
Shoah, a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust
This free event is organized by faculty members in the Library and the Global Citizenship Committee; it is funded by the WVC Library.
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