Timothy Snyder: The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present

15th Annual Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture and Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Symposium Keynote Address by Distinguished Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna), with response by Gary Cohen (University of Minnesota, History): "The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present" Timothy Snyder is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern East European political history, and is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Gary B. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota and former Director of the Center for Austrian Studies. Cohen's research has focused on social development, ethnic group relations, and education in modern Austria and the Czech lands. His publications include two monographs, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (1981; 2006) and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (1996); five co-edited volumes of essays; articles in The Journal of Modern History, Central European History, The Austrian History Yearbook, Český časopis historický, The East European Quarterly, Jewish History, and The Social Science Quarterly; and numerous book chapters. 15th Annual Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair Lecture and Keynote address organized by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies, and the University of St. Thomas' Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, and Grants and Research Office. Made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation. "Comparative Genocide Studies and the Holocaust: Conflict and Convergence," an International Symposium, co-organized by Alejandro Baer and Joachim Savelsberg, the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.