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SUMMARY:2026 Genocide Awareness Lecture - "Srebrenica: Genocide Gendered"
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DESCRIPTION:The Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will ho
 st Prof. Patricia Viseur Sellers\, an international criminal lawyer\, as 
 the 2026 Genocide Awareness Lecturer. In her talk\, which is entitled "Sre
 brenica: Genocide Gendered\," she will examine the gendered aspects of the
  jurisprudence of the Srebrenica cases as rendered by the International Cr
 iminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.  The adjudication of the Srebre
 nica genocide resides in the public's memory for the horrific killing of B
 osnian Muslim men and boys.  However\, the body of case law demonstrates t
 hat the trial chambers and appellate chambers observed and ruled upon evid
 ence of the gendered physical and psychological harms\, such as the dimini
 shed reproductive proclivity of the Srebrenica Muslim community. The Genoc
 ide Convention emerged from egregious events committed prior to and during
  World War II. Provisions of the Genocide Convention proscribe the destruc
 tion and any attempted destruction of a group by means\,  inclusive of inf
 lictions against the reproductive\, sexual capacities of a group. The Sreb
 renica genocide\, consonant in its complexity with the intended safeguards
  in the provisions of the Genocide Convention\, must be understood\, remem
 bered and memorialized as innately gendered.Speaker Bio:Patricia Viseur Se
 llers is an international criminal lawyer.  She teaches on the law faculty
  of the University of Oxford where she is a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg Col
 lege and a Fellow at the Bonavero Center for Human Rights. She is the form
 er Special Advisor for Slavery Crimes to the Prosecutor of the Internation
 al Criminal Court. She\, also\, served as the Special Advisor for Gender t
 o the previous Prosecutor.  From 1994-2007\, Prof. Sellers was the Legal A
 dvisor for Gender\, the Acting Head of the Legal Advisory Section and an A
 cting Senior Tial Attorney at the Yugoslav Tribunal (ICTY).  From 1995-200
 0\, she was the Legal Advisor for Gender at the Rwanda Tribunal (ICTR).   
 At these ad hoc tribunals\, she was on the trial teams of Akayesu\, Furund
 zija\, Kunarac\, Nikolic\, Oric and Stankovic where she developed the lega
 l strategies that led to landmark jurisprudence regarding sexual violence 
 as war crimes\, as crimes against humanity\, as genocide\, as torture and 
 as enslavement under international criminal law.Prof. Sellers advises Unit
 ed Nations’ agencies\, governments and civil society on matters concerni
 ng international criminal law.  She has lectured extensively and authored 
 numerous articles\, including\, ‘Missing in Action: The International Cr
 ime of the Slave Trade’\, 'Wartime Female Slavery: Enslavement?' and 'Th
 e International Crimes of Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Feminist Critique
 ."   She has testified as an expert witness before the Inter-American Cour
 t of Human Rights in the cases of J. v. Peru\, Favela Nova Brasilia v. Bra
 zil\, Albarracín v. Ecuador and Lima and Others v. Colombia. She is the r
 ecipient of the prestigious Goler T. Butcher Medal and the Prominent Women
  in International Law Award by the American Society of International Law. 
 She holds an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the City University of New Yor
 k\, as well as an Honorary Fellow for Lifetime Achievement from the Law Sc
 hool of the University of Pennsylvania\, her alma mater.Details and Regist
 ration Information:This lecture is made possible through donor funding. If
  you would like to make a gift to support this lecture or other Institute 
 offerings\, please visit our website. This year's Genocide Awareness Lect
 ure is part of a Spring 2026 series on Bosnia as well as a 2025-2026 serie
 s on "Gender and Genocide" being offered by the Cohen Institute. Speakers 
 in this series represent a wide range of scholarly research and views\; ou
 r guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen 
 Institute or Keene State College as a whole. This event is free and open 
 to everyone. REGISTER HERE.
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar
URL:http://www.keene.edu/news/events/detail/19968/
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