Something that came across my desk - if you'll be in the New Jersey area, this looks like a good event to attend. More information at the Rutgers website.

The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life invites you to:

The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights

A symposium addressing contemporary issues of genocide and human rights in Rwanda, Armenia and Darfur

Panelists
Manus I. Midlarsky, Rutgers University
Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota
Helen Fein, Institute for the Study of Genocide, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

(Please see participant bios below)

Wednesday, February 7, 7:00 p.m.
Trayes Hall, Douglass College Center
100 George Street, New Brunswick

The symposium is the Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program supported by the Leon and Toby Cooperman Fund and is presented in cooperation
with Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity.
------------------------------------------------------------------------Participant Bios:

Manus I. Midlarsky is the Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at Rutgers University. His publications
include The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century and The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative
Perspective. His current book, The Origins of Political Extremism: Fascism, Communism, and Radical Islamism, is under contract with Cambridge
University Press. In addition, he was an invited participant at the Conference on War Crimes sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and
Central Intelligence Agency, March 2006.

Eric Weitz is a professor of history and German and European studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include A Century of
Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation and Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe. He is also the project organizer
for “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of the European Empires, 1848-Present,” an international, multidisciplinary
graduate student and faculty research project on the origins and manifestations of ethnic conflict.

Helen Fein is the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of
New York. Her forthcoming book, Human Rights and wrongs: Slavery, Terror and Genocide, will be published by Paradigm Publishers in April 2007 and
addresses the persistence of crimes against humanity since the Holocaust.