Sam Totten to Lecture on Rwandan Genocide on Feb. 26
Posted on 2/25/2009
Professor Samuel Totten will give a lecture titled "The Suffering Doesn’t End Once the Killing has Stopped: The Plight and Fate of the Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Helen Robson Walton Reading Room of Mullins Library. Copies of Totten's recent book The Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide will be available for sale on site by the University of Arkansas Bookstore.
Totten, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Arkansas, received a Fulbright Fellowship last year to work in Rwanda, where he helped establish a genocide studies program at the National University of Rwanda and interviewed survivors of the 1994 "machete genocide" there. He is writing a book from the interviews. He and a colleague have established a scholarship fund to raise money for survivors of genocide around the world to attend college. The Post Genocide Education Fund can be found at http://www.postgen.org/. Totten has written and edited numerous books about genocide and is the editor or co-editor of several journals on the subject.
This lecture is co-hosted by the University of Arkansas Bookstore, the university chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), the department of curriculum and instruction and the University of Arkansas Libraries.
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