"Labor Migration, Degrees of Privilege, and Politics of Hope in Turkey"
with Ayse Parla
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Sabanci Universitesi, Turkey
Monday, November 13, 2017 | 4:00 PM
Sheffield-Massey Room at Texas Law
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Fall 2017 Colloquium
Please join us this fall for a thought-provoking series on the rights of workers in a globalized economy marked by glaring inequalities.
"Labor Migration, Degrees of Privilege, and the Politics of Hope in Turkey"
Ayse Parla
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sabanci Universitesi, Turkey
Sponsored by the Rapoport Center and Center for European Studies.
"On Stalinist Denial of the Holodomor"
by Charters Wynn
("Notwithstanding the Evidence: Historians on Denialism" Series)
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | GAR 1.102 3:00 - 4:00 PM
The Soviet Union denied a mass famine occurred in 1932-1933, even though six to eight million people died due to the famine and associated hunger and disease. The famine, a result of Stalin's program of forced collectivization, was one of the most successful historical coverups in history. The influential
New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Soviet Union, played a key role in the coverup. Even though he knew about the famine, Duranty attacked any fellow Western correspondents who reported on it.
Charters Wynn, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Frank Denius Normandy Scholar Program. He has been awarded numerous teaching awards, including The President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award. The American Historical Association awarded Professor Wynn's book, Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms, the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for the best first book in European history. Professor Wynn is working on a biography entitled, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin." He is an IHS Fellow in 2017-2018.
"Notwithstanding the Evidence: Historians on Denialism" is a lecture series that aims to elucidate how denialist movements have worked - psychologically, rhetorically, sociologically - and to frame denialism in historical perspective. Read more about this series.
Sponsored by: Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History
"German and Jews" Film Screening & Discussion with Director Janina Quint
Thursday, November 16, 2017 | 7:00 PM POB 2.302
"Germans and Jews" (USA, 2016),
A film by Janina Quint and Tal Recanati
Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced story of reconciliation emerges. What began as a private conversation between the two filmmakers and friends,
Tal Recanati (Jewish) and
Janina Quint (non-Jewish German), grew into a cultural exchange among many and we realize that the two people are inextricably linked through the memory of the Holocaust. Germans and Jews is at once uncomfortable and provocative, unexpected and enlightening. (Source: First Run Features)
Thursday 11/16/2017 from 7-9 pm - film screening and Q & A with Janina Quint.
Janina Quint (Director and Producer): Janina Quint grew up in Germany. Her early video essays addressed the tension between technology and authenticity. She is the co-director of the film festival Senza Frontiere/without borders and serves on the board of Film Ohne Grenzen. She lives with her husband and three children and dog in New York City.
