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Memory and Genocide

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 5:30pm to 7:15pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Lewis Auditorium
232 East Ave, Central Campus

The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives is an unparalleled resource of some 53,000 individual testimonies of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Nanjing massacre and the Armenian genocide. Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the archive Tuesday, Nov. 3, with a talk by noted New Yorker columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch ’86. The lecture, titled “Memory and Genocide,” will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. A public reception will follow at the A.D. White House.



Gourevitch’s lecture is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Cornell Library, and the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.
 

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Lecture

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NA

Contact Phone

607-255-6275

Speaker

Philip Gourevitch

Speaker Affiliation

The New Yorker Magazine

Reception

Reception to follow in A.D. White House

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public

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