To enhance its educational and cultural offerings, AUC's Distinguished Visiting Scholars program brings a number of eminent scholars, writers, and artists to campus for short-term lectureships or workshops. Leading scholars of religion, prominent historians, expert law professors, and world-renowned scientists are among the broad array of distinguished visiting professors who come to AUC each year to teach, conduct research and deliver public lectures. Through these visits, the University serves as a prime venue for the exchange of ideas, intellectual debate and cultural outreach.
To enhance its educational and cultural offerings, AUC's Distinguished Visiting Professor program brings a number of eminent scholars, writers, and artists to campus for short-term lectureships or workshops. Leading scholars of religion, prominent historians, expert law professors, and world-renowned scientists are among the broad array of distinguished visiting professors who come to AUC each year to teach, conduct research and deliver public lectures. Through these visits, the University serves as a prime venue for the exchange of ideas, intellectual debate and cultural outreach.
Published on 17 December 2020
Save Darfur activists from Orange County. Credit: Genocide Intervention Network (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
The roundtable, which included parliamentarians, civil servants, researchers and NGO representatives, heard from the following speakers:
Archbishop Angaelos, Founder and Director of Refcemi
Professor Mohammed Ihsan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and former senior official with the Iraqi Government
Dr Enver Tohti, former surgeon in China, advocate on human rights violations against religious minorities in China
Ewelina Ochab, Deputy Director of Refcemi and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response.
During the event, Archbishop Angaelos reminded the participants about the recent mass atrocities based on religion or belief that may be classified as genocide under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. These include those perpetrat