Past Conferences
VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict
International Conference
Northeastern University’s Egan Research Center
November 3, 2006
VIOLENCE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 9:30-10:00 | Framing the Problem Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic, Brudnick Center |
| 10:00-10:45 | Perspective: The Nature of Immigration in the 21st Century Vincent N. Parrillo, William Paterson University |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:45 | Views from the Field: Documenting Violence against Newcomers in the United States Samantha Friedman, Northeastern University: presider and moderator
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| 12:45 - 1:45 | Lunch Break |
| 1:45 – 2:00 | Coffee and Desert |
| 2:00-4:00 | Violence against Immigrants in Europe Silvia Dominguez, Northeastern University, presider and moderator
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| 4:-00-4:30 | Concluding Remarks: Where do we go from here? Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic, Brudnick Center |
April 1-2, 2005
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HATE CRIMES: PREVENTING HATE VIOLENCE
Convener: Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University
- Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State College (Bullying students who are different in schools and colleges); Range Hutson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Hate incidents in the medical field); Nihad Bunar, Southern University, Stockholm (Policing anti-immigrant hate crimes); Robert Hilliard, Emerson College (Internet hate crimes); Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh (Women in the Hate Movement)
Convener: Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center
- Nancy Kaufman, Jewish Community Relations Council (Inter-faith cooperation); Sasha Cohen O’Connell, Northeastern University and Preetmohan Singh, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) (Developing partnerships between law enforcement and the American Muslim, Arab, and Sikh communities); Donnie Perkins, Northeastern University (The Response to hate incidents in higher education); Paul Iganski, University of Essex (Reducing the New Anti-Semitism); Fred Lawrence, Boston University School of Law (Legal responses)
Convener: Tom Koenig, Northeastern University
- Steve Wessler, University of Southern Maine: Future of training; Jack McDevitt, Northeastern University: Future of Reporting; Mike Sutton, University of Nottingham, and Barbara Perry, University of Ontario: A New Research Agenda; Victoria Kielinger and Sue Peterson, Metropolitan Police, London: Policing Hate Crimes; Kevin Borgeson, St. Bonaventure University: Organized Hate
March 20-22, 2003
Second National Student Symposium:
Combating Hate and Prejudice on Campus
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November 2001
Ordinary people, extraordinary courage: lessons from Bulgaria
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During WWII, not a single Jewish resident of Bulgaria was deported to a death camp. This is despite the fact that Bulgaria was allied with the Nazis. There are two distinct goals of the conference. The first is to identify the factors which served as the impetus to such extraordinary action by Bulgarians on behalf of their Jewish neighbors. The second goal is to locate lessons from the Bulgarian experience that can serve to reduce inter-group conflict and violence in the contemporary world.
The Morning Panel: Petar-Emil Mitev, Professor: St. Kliment Ohridsky University Department of Politology. (Sofia Bulgaria); Emmy Barouh, Author, International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations (Sofia Bulgaria); Paul Bookbinder, Professor of History and Director of the European Studies program; UMASS Boston; Helen Fein, Author and expert in Genocide Studies; Gordana Rabrenovic (Moderator) Assoc. Director of the Brudnick Center for the study of Conflict and Violence, Assoc. Prof. of Sociology Northeastern University.
The Afternoon Panel: Nancy K. Kaufman, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston; Rev. Ray Hammond, Co-founder of the Ten-Point Coalition; Robin Chandler, Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Northeastern University; David Schmitt, Brooke Professor; Department of Political Science, Northeastern University; Deborah Ramirez, (Moderator)Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute on Race and Justice; Northeastern University.
April 18-20, 2001
Third World Views Of The Holocaust
- The long-term impact of the Holocaust is not confined to Western society. Half a century since the end of the Shoah, intellectuals, writers and scholars from Africa, Asia and Latin America have also come to ponder the significance of Europe’s quintessential evil for their own societies and worldviews.
Northeastern University is both honored and humbled to host the first international symposium on the Shoah to privilege voices from the Third World.
In an age in which genocide persists alongside globalization, it is necessary to acknowledge that the Holocaust does not “belong�? to the West alone.
March 23-24, 2000
Combating Prejudice and Hate on Campus: A National Student Conference
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