2012-2013 ASCH SEMINARS

CANCELLED--TO BE RESCHEDULED
Monday 22 October 2012
"Helping Refugees and Displaced:
A Practitioner's View"
SHEPPIE GLASS ABRAMOWITZ BMC '57
BMC Bettws-y-coed 106
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Monday 8 October 2012
"Eye-witness Reports of Collective Damage:
Using Social Psychology to Describe the Impacts
of Violence in Colombia"
ARACELI GARCIA DEL SOTO
Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
BMC Bettws-y-coed 127
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Moshe Maoz
Monday 27 Feb 2012 4:15pm
"The Arab Spring in Syria:
Current Conflict and Future Scenarios"
MOSHE MAOZ
Professor (Emeritus) of Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
BMC Bettws-y-coed 239
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Monday 20 Feb 2012 4:15pm
"Introducing the United States Extremist Crime
Database (ECDB)"
JOSHUA FREILICH
Professor and Acting Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Criminal Justice, John Jay College, City Univ of NY
BMC Carpenter 21
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Monday 30 Jan 2012 4:15pm
"Narrative and Reconciliation in
the Karabakh Conflict"
RAUF GARAGOZOV
Leading Research Fellow
Center for Strategic Studies
Baku, Azerbaijan
BMC Carpenter 21

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Conflict and Visual Culture online galleries

Photographer Melanie Blanding is Asch's first featured artist. Learn more by clicking on one of her images at right.

Asch’s newest project is up and running!  Under the direction of Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman, the Asch network is expanding to include photographers, fine artists and filmmakers exploring the [...]

Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes

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From cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper to displays of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina statehouse, acts of cultural significance have set off political conflicts and sometimes violence. These and other expressions and enactments of culture–whether in music, graffiti, sculpture, flag displays, parades, religious [...]