 
This publicity image for the symposium includes two images showing incidents of ethnic cleansing: In the background is a depiction of the expulsion of Acadians at Grand Pre, near Windsor on the Bay of Fundy, in the 1760s. The Acadians were forced out of their houses and herded onto ships that carried them south. The photograph in the foreground was taken in Kosovo in 1999, when thousands of ethnic Albanians were driven from their homes. |
focus of Lamar Center's weekend symposium
Scholars will discuss the historical, political and social factors that give rise to ethnic cleansing at a symposium being sponsored by The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale.
Titled "Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontiers of Europe and America," the event will be held on the Yale campus Friday-Saturday, Sept. 14-15.
The program will begin on Friday at 5:15 p.m., with keynote presentations by Norman M. Naimark, a historian of Russia and Europe at Stanford University and author of the recently published "Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe," and by John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History at Yale and director of the Lamar Center. The talks will take place in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.
Naimark will present the view that ethnic cleansing is rooted in late-19th century European nationalism. Faragher, who is working on a study of the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, will argue that the phenomenon of modern state-sponsored ethnic cleansing has to be understood in the context of the dispossession process accompanying colonization.
Following the talks, there will be a public reception at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
On Saturday at 10 a.m., a panel of historians will deliberate about the two points of view, broadening their discussion to include frontiers in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. The discussion will take place in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.
The panel will be composed of noted biographer Robert Remini, professor at the University of Illinois; Carl Brasseaux, a scholar of Louisiana history at the University of Southwestern Louisiana; Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of the International Securities Studies Program at Yale, snf author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" among other acclaimed works; Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale; and Yale Ph.D. candidate Jeremy Mumford. The moderator will be Jennifer Baszile, assistant professor of history and of African American Studies.
No registration is required, and all events are free and open to the public. For more information about the symposium or other Lamar Center events, send e-mail to Jay Gitlin at bgbmusic@aol.com.
Named in honor of Howard Lamar, noted Yale historian and former president of the University, the Lamar Center promotes the study of the North American frontiers and borders, as well as the comparative study of the frontier experience throughout the world.
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