WHEN: Monday, Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 20, 2002--Israel W. Charney, executive director of the Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, will deliver the talk "Denying the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, and Other Genocides: A Discussion and Classification of Types of Denial of Genocide" Nov. 25 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The talk is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25 at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Charney is a professor of psychology and psychotherapy at the Martin Buber Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the director of the Program of Advanced Studies in Integrative Psychotherapy in the department of psychology.
Charney is widely published on the subject of genocide. He was the executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Genocide" and was a co-author of "Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views." He is author of "How Can We Commit the Unthinkable? Genocide, the Human Cancer."
There will be a book signing after the presentation. The talk is sponsored by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the department of anthropology and geography at UNL, Nebraskans for Peace, and Amnesty International, UNL Chapter.
CONTACT: Robert Hitchcock, Professor, Anthropology & Geography, (402) 472-2480 (rhitchcock1@unl.edu)
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