KEENE STATE GENOCIDE AWARENESS LECTURE: ‘GENOCIDES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE’
Targeted News Service
October 20, 2008 Monday 7:47 AM EST
Keene State College issued the following news release:
Professor Donald Bloxham will give Keene State College Cohen Center for
Holocaust Studies’ 2nd Annual Genocide Awareness Lecture: "Genocides
in Comparative Perspective: Does the Holocaust Fit?" on Monday,
October 27. The lecture is free and open to the public and will
start at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of Keene State College’s
L. P. Young Student Center.
An expert in Holocaust and genocide studies, with focused work on
the Armenian genocide, Bloxham is professor of modern history at
the University of Edinburgh and has authored nearly 50 articles and
book chapters. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of
Genocide and serves on the editorial board of the journals Holocaust
Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, and the Journal of Genocide Research.
Professor Bloxham was the 2007-08 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro
Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, where he completed his forthcoming book, The Final Solution:
A Genocide and Its Contexts. He is the recipient of the 2007 Raphael
Lemkin Award for genocide scholarship.
The Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, recognized as a "center of
excellence" by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, has a strong
collection of print and media resources, holds a biennial residential
summer institute for educators, and supports a minor in Holocaust
studies at Keene State College.
One of the nation’s oldest Holocaust resource centers, it is a
nonsectarian organization dedicated to teaching the lessons of the
Holocaust. It fulfills founder Dr. Charles Hildebrandt’s charge,
"to remember … and to teach," through annual community programming
and educational outreach activities.
For a schedule of workshops, in-service training, classroom
presentations, and individual curriculum consultations, visit
For more information, contact Margaret Barney,
[email protected], or call the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies
at 603-358-2490.