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SUMMARY:Our Walled World: Identity and Separation in Deeply Divided Societ
 ies
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DESCRIPTION:A central defining feature of deeply divided societies is bina
 ry division – “us” and “them.” These binary fault lines can aris
 e from class\, caste\, religion\, language\, race\, ethnicity\, clan\, or 
 political identity. These divisions breed walled communities of fear and i
 solation\, not only dividing populations but also uniting them in their fe
 ar of the “other.” Grounded in a global comparative analysis of the li
 teral and figurative notion of “walls” in deeply divided societies\, t
 his presentation will analyze physical walls of social separation\, symbol
 ic walls of identity separation\, and hidden or invisible walls of geograp
 hical separation. The presentation will conclude by emphasizing the need f
 or more integration in deeply divided societies and suggesting specific st
 rategies to address the physical\, symbolic\, and hidden or invisible wall
 s that separate and wound the lives of people in such societies.REGISTER H
 ERE---Speaker Bio: Dr. James Waller is the Gladstein Family Distinguished 
 Chair in Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. At UConn\, he also
  serves as the Director for the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute an
 d is a Professor of Literatures\, Cultures\, Languages\, and Human Rights.
  In addition\, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Peace\
 , Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. He has authored se
 ven books\, most notably his award-winning Becoming Evil: How Ordinary Peo
 ple Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press\, 2nd ed.\, 
 2007)\, Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide 
 (Oxford University Press\, 2016)\, and A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilien
 ce in Contemporary Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press\, 2021). In 2
 017\, Dr. Waller was the inaugural recipient of the Engaged Scholarship Pr
 ize from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in recognition
  of his exemplary engagement in advancing genocide awareness and preventio
 n. Dr. Wallerhas written for The Washington Post\, The Irish News\, and Th
 e Conversation and is frequently interviewed by broadcast and print media\
 , including PBS\, CNN\, CBC\, the Los Angeles Times\, Salon\, National Geo
 graphic\, Scientific American\, and The New York Times.This event is broug
 ht to you by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust\, Gen
 ocide\, and Crimes against Humanity at Western Washington University (WWU)
 . It is co-sponsored by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Stu
 dies at Keene State College and numerous other centers/programs. Speakers
  at co-sponsored events represent a wide range of scholarly research and v
 iews\; guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the C
 ohen Institute or Keene State College as a whole.
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
URL:http://www.keene.edu/news/events/detail/24038/
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