Video Archive
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 | Taner Akçam: Why is the Armenian Genocide Important?Taner Akçam, author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, discusses the importance of learning about the history of the Armenian Genocide today. | 23 weeks 3 days ago |
Andi G., Facing History TeacherAndi G., a Facing History teacher, speaks about the obligation of teachers and students to face the challenges that history brings to humanity. | 18 weeks 1 day ago | |
Redefining GenocideAllan Ryan, former Director of the Office of Special Investigations in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice, critiques the current definition of genocide as framed by the UN Genocide Convention. He suggests an alternative that is better suited for matters of international law, such as when perpetrators of genocide are brought to trial in international court. | 14 weeks 4 days ago | |
Clarifying the Definition of Genocide for International LawAllan Ryan, former Director of the Office of Special Investigations in the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice, advocates for a definition of genocide that does not include the reasons or various other factors that may accompany mass killings. | 17 weeks 22 hours ago | |
Literature and History: A Talk by Author Azar NafisiIn her talk, Azar Nafisi highlights some of the themes discussed in her best-selling memoir, Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. She speaks about the power of literature to build transnational communities, to liberate readers from the confines of their reality, and to imagine a better world. | 17 weeks 4 hours ago | |
From Slavery to Civil Rights: Impressions on Educational InequalityRobert Moses, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the lead strategist behind Freedom Summer, founder and president of the Algebra Project, was a keynote speaker at Pursuing Human Dignity, a conference sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Law School. In this excerpt, he reflects on the history of educational disenfranchisement of African Americans and considers how historical discrimination informs education today. | 17 weeks 4 hours ago | |
Educating for Human Dignity: Learning to ParticipateEducators from Iraq, Northern Ireland, South Africa and the United States discuss the challenges for education for human dignity in a globalized world at a Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Law School conference. | 17 weeks 4 hours ago | |
Martha Minow: What the Rule of Law Should Mean in Civics EducationMartha Minow, Harvard Law Professor and Chair of the Facing History and Ourselves Board of Scholars, discusses the relationship between war crimes, obedience, education and the law. | 17 weeks 3 hours ago | |
 | Rebecca Hamilton: Building a Permanent Anti-genocide ConstituencyIn this excerpt from a panel discussion at Facing History and Harvard Law School's November 2005 conference on the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, Rebecca Hamilton tells the story of how she helped mobilize the Harvard community to take action against the genocide in Sudan. She discusses the expansion of this work into building a wider, permanent anti-genocide constituency. Rebecca Hamilton is a joint degree student at John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School and Co-founder of Darfur Action Group. | 17 weeks 3 hours ago |
Samantha Power: Responding to Genocide in DarfurSamantha Power, journalist and founder of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, speaks at a Facing History and Ourselves/Harvard conference about the difference students can make in stopping gross violations of human rights. She uses the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, as an example of creative participation in the face of an ongoing genocide. | 17 weeks 2 hours ago |
