Uighur Genocide, in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, political geographer Dr. Tamar Mayer will present her research on the Uighur genocide and cultural memory and then will be joined in conversation with a researcher from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum specializing in international genocides.

Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College and the former director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. Her research focuses on the interplay among nationalism, landscape, and memory in stateless nations, including Palestinians, Jews before Statehood, and Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. She is also interested in other global issues that have caused insecurities and which resulted in forced migration and increased refugee flows.

Over her career, she has written about these issues and edited seven volumes, including Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation (2000), The Politics of Fresh Water (2017), and Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival (2020) and Displacement, Belonging and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power (2022). A believer in exploring the global in the liberal arts, she co-organized and presented at the “Globalizing the Liberal Arts” conference at Soka University of America in 2018.

Dr. Mayer holds a BA from the University of Haifa, Israel, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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