Thanks to a generous donation from a member of the NSU Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Board of Governors Marta Batmasian, Ph.D., a new lecture series that focuses on the issue of genocide was created. The first lecture of the series was held Fri., Feb. 7 in the Carl DeSantis Building and was attended by more than 80 individuals from both inside and outside of NSU.
The event, which is part of NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, featured guest lecturer Samuel Totten, Ph.D., a professor of Curriculum & Genocide Studies at the College of Education & Health Professions at the University of Arkansas. Totten’s work focuses on modern genocides and he has recently done important field research in Africa’s Nuba mountains on the Darfur genocide. He is the editor of several noteworthy texts on modern genocides including Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (1997), Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Testimony (1995), and First Person Accounts of Genocidal Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century (1991). He has also served as an editor and contributor for many academic journals and has written numerous articles and essays on various aspects of genocide as well as genocide and Holocaust education.
Also participating in the lecture was Jason J. Campbell, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Conflict Resolution and Genocide Studies in NSU’s SHSS. Campbell publishes primarily in the field of genocide awareness and prevention, and his most recent book is entitled Planning a Catastrophe: On the Nature of Genocidal Intent. His research interests include genocide studies and prevention, the problem of evil, state endorsed mass extermination and the theoretical understanding of exclusionary ideologies.