SYMPOSIUM ‘IDENTIFYING AND COUNTERING HOLOCAUST DISTORTION: LESSONS FOR AND FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA’
23-26 November 2021
The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association, with support of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Heinrich Boell Foundation Cambodia, and in cooperation with American University of Phnom Penh and Balac Program of Chulalongkorn University, will hold an online Symposium ‘Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion: Lessons for and from Southeast Asia’. The Symposium is part of the project implemented by the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association with its partners. The project aims to identify the narratives around the Holocaust, elaborate strategies and counter-arguments against its distortion in the region, and inspire critical memory discourses about local instances of genocide and conflicts. The project focuses on Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Two keynote talks will be delivered by high-profile academics: Yehuda Bauer, who is the Honorary Chairman to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the founding editor of the journal ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’, and Ben Kiernan, the founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program as well as the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.
On the first day of the Symposium, Teun van Dijk, the founder of Critical Discourse Analysis will lead a research methodology workshop ‘Critical Discourse Analysis approach to study anti-minority discourses, racism, and genocide denial’.
The Symposium provides an opportunity to link the lessons of the Holocaust with regional and local instances of genocide and conflict, and discuss how to counter its denial and distortion. The program includes interesting presentations from colleagues from Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond.
Selected sessions will have simultaneous translation into Khmer language.
Symposium Program (in English, PDF)
Symposium Program (in Khmer, PDF)
The registration is required: HERE.
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