7th Annual International Conference on Genocide September 26th – October 3rd, 2020 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Tweet Using #INoGSOnline CONTENTS Schedule at a Glance..........................................................3 Welcome……………….……………………………………….4 About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ..................... 5 INoGS Executive Board ………………………………...........6 Awards.................................................................................9 Conference Program...........................................................10 Blog Posts and Poser…………………………………………11 Presenter Abstracts and Biographies……………………….16 2 SCHEDULE AT AGLANCE AT SCHEDULE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Saturday, OCTOBER 3 Saturday, SEPTEMBER 26 9:00 am – 9:30 am 9:00 am – 10:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks Fourth Parallel Session Panel 9 – Genocide in the Ottoman 9:45 am – 11:15 am Empire First Parallel Session Panel 10 – Truth and Panel 1 – The Shoah: Reconciliation? Perspectives and Persons Panel 11 – Rethinking Panel 2 – Killing Fields and Remembrance, and Reluctance Nigeria: Past, Present, and 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Philosophies Fifth Parallel Session 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel 12 – Outlawing the Truth: Second Parallel Session Memory Laws and State Panel 4 – Ungendering and Violence in the United States, Reframing Sexual Violence and Poland, and Israel/Palestine Mass Atrocities in the Balkans Panel 13 – Guatemala and the Panel 5 – Culture and the Child Possibility of Prevention in Genocide Panel 3 – Political Ideologies and 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Political Identities in Post-Atrocity Transitions (RESCHEDULED) Lunch 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm Third Parallel Session Lunch Panel 6 – Collective Reburial in 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Post-Genocide and Mass- Violence Contexts: Collectively Second Roundtable Reshaping Mass Death and its Roundtable 2 – The Changing Aftermath Landscape of Studying Panel 7 – Hate Speech and Hate Perpetrators in Rwanda Practices 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm Sixth Parallel Session First Roundtable Panel 14 – US Holocaust Roundtable 1 – Genocide Memorial Museum: Inquiries and Scholarship: Publishing and the Initiatives Future of Genocide Research Panel 15 – Sexual Violence in Mass Atrocity (Note all times in GMT Minus 4:00) 3 Welcome Welcome to the 7th International Conference on Genocide of the International Conference of Genocide Scholars. We are living in an exceptional time and this is an exceptional conference. Firstly, let me begin by thanking you for being here today, for your generosity, and for your patience. But mostly, I thank you for your research. Never before in this technological age has research in the humanities and social sciences generally faced so many challenges. Travel is limited, archives are closed, funding is cut, jobs are lost, opportunities for research are closed. And in this closing, a darkness appears where human security and indeed human life become secondary, where atrocity against the body and the mind can thrive. Indeed, as we will hear throughout this conference, despite this global pandemic, genocide continues. It makes me think back to our 6th Conference, in Marseille in 2018, which linked genocide studies and medicine; how human insecurity and mass atrocity has direct links to human health and how genocide is as much an attack against the body and the physical and mental health of a community as it is direct killing. Your continued work and dedication bring a light into the struggles of this extraordinary time. Thank you for persevering and joining us here today. INoGS has never had a conference like this one. To be virtual gives us the chance to be truly global. On the downside, we’re not able to see each other face-to-face and have that camaraderie that we all value and miss. On the upside, you can participate in some way at any time any place in the world. In your pajamas, in your living room, outside while you have a cup of tea – we’ll have something going on at some point all week. At every conference, we take a moment to think back over the history of our meetings, right back fifteen years ago when INoGS was founded in Berlin in 2005. My first introduction to INoGS was at our first conference in Sheffield, England. Now, I have to admit, this conference was a bit of a disaster – as some of you might remember. It was held in the North of England in January. The weather was terrible, cold, and rainy – but what else would you expect? That would all have been fine, however, if the heating hadn’t gone out across the university on the second day of the conference which, of course, was a Saturday, and no one could be found willing to come out and fix the boiler. So there we were, freezing in the dark and cold in the middle of an English winter, trying to talk about genocide – Disaster! Or, at least, that’s how Jürgen Zimmerer, our President at the time, remembers it. I don’t remember it that way. I do remember slipping into my coat at one point, true. But I also remember hot cider being passed around in the final plenary and the sense of camaraderie. I remember meeting Jürgen, Henning Melber, Nigel Eltringham, and so many other people key to the early days of INoGS; I remember being so terrified of giving my first conference paper to a panel filled with a whopping five people in the audience who were so kind to a young PhD student. I remember that conference as the first time I ever met any other students with the same passion for the study of mass violence I felt. That conference, despite the struggles with the weather and heating, remains one of the seminal moments of my professional career. I can only hope that this conference impacts at least one of you in a similar way – it’s certainly been a challenging ride! 4 There are certain people who deserve a resounding thanks for bringing this conference to fruition. Firstly, to my executive board – Elisabeth Anstett, Rachel McGinnis, Raz Segal, and Umit Kurt – Thank you so much for your support and help over the past few months. To the people at the College of Arts and Sciences at Embry-Riddle, especially Dean Karen Gaines and our Department Chair, Bill Lahneman – thank you for giving us the support necessary for this conference to be successful. I have to say a big thank you to Chip Wolfe and Jesper Jensen, our tech team. Without the two of them we would have had no website and indeed, no conference. Thank you for your expertise and your kindness working with a tech-newbie like me. And, last but very much not least, a thank you to INoGS’ interns, Willow Kelly and Gavin Olson. Before I finish, a final word on the conference webpage. Along with key information about the panels, you’ll also find interviews with our Lifetime Achievement and Impact Award winners as well as very exciting information on our next conference, held in Mexico City, 2022! Thank you again and I hope you enjoy a wonderful – if unique! – INoGS 2020. Warm Wishes, Dr. Elisabeth Hope Murray, President 5 About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University In 1925, barnstormer John Paul Riddle met entrepreneur T. Higbee Embry, and together, they formed the Embry-Riddle Company to teach the adventurous to fly. Since then, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has emerged as a global leader in aerospace, engineering, and security studies. The College of Arts and Sciences, led by Dean Karen Gaines, is one of the fastest growing colleges on campus and comprises of five central areas of study, including security and conflict studies. Established in 2006, the Department of Security Studies and International Affairs highlights research and teaching in Global Conflict Studies, Homeland Security, Cyber Security, Terrorism Studies, and Emergency Management. Dr. William Lahneman is the current Chair of the SSIA Department. Karen F. Gaines William Lahneman Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Homeland Security and Chair of the Professor of Biology Department of Security Studies and International Affair 6 International Network of Genocide Scholars Executive Board President – Dr. Elisabeth Hope Murray Dr. Elisabeth Hope Murray is the President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars and Associate Professor of Security Studies and International Affairs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her work focuses on ideology, macro- level violence, gender security, genocide, environmental insecurity, and the process of radicalization in genocidal states. She has a wide range of published works including Disrupting Pathways to Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Environments of Security (American Meteorological Society, November 2019). Vice-President – Dr. Elisabeth Anstett Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist, senior tenured researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and member of Adès (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé), an interdisciplinary research unit at the Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences of Aix-Marseille University. Her research focuses on dead bodies and human remains management and care in genocide, mass violence and crisis contexts. She is co-editing the ‘Human Remains and Violence’ book series and interdisciplinary academic journal at Manchester University Press. 7 Treasurer – Dr. Rachel E. McGinnis Rachel E. McGinnis is the Director of the Peace and Conflict Program at RIT Kosovo and an Assistant Professor in Public Policy and International Relations. She is interdisciplinary scholar focusing on the fields of conflict science, sexual violence, and mass atrocities. Her research focal point is sexual violence during conflict concentrating specifically on male victimization. She holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a Master’s and a Bachelor’s of Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). In addition, over the last few years, she has spent time Volunteering in both Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Greece and the Balkans this summer on the Turk-Syrian border.