The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention regularly host guest speakers, panel discussions, and large-scale conferences at The American University of Paris. 

Topics include genocide, Jewish history, mass violence and human rights to colonialism, gender, democracy and acts of resistance. Conversations are often held within the context of education and research, as well as collective and individual memory, as well as historical, ideological or psychological narratives, and more. The centers events have incorporated a multitude of cultural contexts and national backgrounds, including France, Germany, Armenia, Ukraine, Poland, Armenia, Rwanda and more.

Below, you can find some of our most recent events, including conferences, workshops, lectures, and more. You can also find a list of replays we have available.

Past Events
at the Schaeffer Center

2024

PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE SHOAH WORKSHOP II

Monday and Tuesday, October 7-8, 2024

 

GUEST LECTURE WITH IBRAHIM SALAMA

Friday, October 4, 2024

 

ACTS OF WITNESSING ON FILM

Monday, June 17, 2024

 

ETHICAL USE OF DIGITAL ARCHIVES

Friday, May 17, 2024

 

FAITH, HUMAN RIGHTS & CO-EXISTENCE

Thursday, May 2, 2024

 

SYRIA ROUND TABLE II: SYRIAN GULAG: INSIDE ASSAD’S PRISONS

Monday, April 8, 2024

 

GENOCIDE AND GENEALOGY: HOW ARMENIAN FAMILY TREES SPEAK OF 1915

Friday, April 5, 2024

 

A CONVERSATION WITH PEACE ACTIVISTS ABOUT THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN WAR IN GAZA

Thursday, March 28, 2024

 

SYRIA ROUND TABLE I: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPUNITY IN SYRIA

Thursday, February 29, 2024

 

PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE SHOAH WORKSHOP

Thursday February 1st to Friday, February 2nd, 2024

2019
2018
2017

ROGER FRIE: WITNESSING THE CRIMES OF OUR GRANDPARENTS: REMEMBERING AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE WAKE OF THE HOLOCAUST

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE: RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017 - 14:15

 

MARK ROSEMAN SPEAKS ON "RESISTANCE AND RESCUE IN NAZI GERMANY"

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017 - 16:00

 

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR NETWORKS: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 - 09:30

 

VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 - 09:00

 

THE BRAINS THAT PULL THE TRIGGERS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017 - 09:00

 

HELIOS AZOULAY CONCERT

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 - 19:00

 

ORAL HISTORY OF A BI-NATIONAL COMMUNITY: CHALLENGING FACTORS AND UNIQUE OUTCOMES WITH AMIA LIEBLICH

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 - 17:30

 

CLIMATE CHANGE GUEST LECTURE

TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND THE REASSEMBLING OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, WITH MIKAEL RASK MADSEN

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017 - 18:00

 

OLIVIER LECOUR GRANDMAISON DISCUSSES "COLONIAL MASS VIOLENCE AND/OR COLONIAL GENOCIDE?

TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017 - 18:00

 

BOOK LAUNCH & LECTURE: WHOSE STORY? WHOSE WORLD? LIFE & NARRATIVE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 - 18:30

 

STEPHANIE WOLFE: PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE WITH NEVER AGAIN RWANDA

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 - 14:30

 

BUILDING PEACE AFTER GENOCIDE: LESSONS FROM RWANDA WITH DR STEPHANIE WOLFE

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 - 17:30

 

BECOMING EVIL: HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE COMMIT GENOCIDE AND MASS KILLING, WITH JIM WALLER

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 - 17:30

 

GENS DE PARIS / PEOPLE OF PARIS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2017 - 17:30

 

THE HOLOCAUST BY BULLETS, THE PROTOTYPE FOR MODERN GENOCIDES: YAHAD - IN UNUM’S RESEARCH AND TEACHING RESOURCES

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 - 17:30

Event Replays
to Watch Again

Several of the events hosted and organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris are captured on video and shared via the University’s YouTube channel.

You can find the most recent event replays below and a complete list of replays on the Center’s youtube playlist.

Over Yet Unresolved: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, From Self Determination to Ethnic Cleansing
"Impudent Jews" The Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Hitler's Germany | with Wolf Gruner
The Rhetoric of Hate | with Gérard Noiriel
AUP Talk: Armenian Feminists’ Post-Genocide Expectations from their Turkish Counterparts
AUP Events | “The Diarist as Witness to Catastrophe” | with Vahé Tachjian
AUP Events | "Gendered Aspects Of The Armenian Genocide" | with Anna Aleksanyan
AUP Events | "Intergenerational Memories of Important Events" | with William Hirst