KSC Genocide Awareness Lecture: The Eight Stages of Genocide

KEENE, N.H., 3/15/10 - Dr. Gregory Stanton will present Keene State College’s Genocide Awareness Lecture on Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center.

Gregory Stanton is founder and president of Genocide Watch, the founder and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the founder and chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide. He is past president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. A former member of the State Department, he has been actively involved in human rights since the 1960s, when he was a voting rights worker in Mississippi.

Admission is free and the event is open to the public. For more information, please visit www.keene.edu/cchs, or contact Michele Kuiawa at 603-358-2490; mkuiawa@keene.edu.

The Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is one of the nation’s oldest Holocaust Resource Centers. Fulfilling founder Dr. Charles Hildebrandt’s charge, “to remember … and to teach” through annual community programming and educational outreach activities, it has been recognized as a “Center of Excellence” by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. Keene State College has established a new baccalaureate degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies that began in 2009-10 academic year.