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Apsel is the author of a number of articles, including "The Complexity of Genocide in Darfur: Historical Perspectives and Ongoing Processes of. Destruction" in Human Rights Review and "On our Watch: The Genocide Convention and the Deadly, Ongoing... He also wrote Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia: Documentation, Denial and Justice in Cambodia and East Timor, How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975 , and The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power... Krauss has worked on various human rights films on subjects ranging from refugee issues, healthcare, illegal immigration, sexual violence, global human smuggling and trafficking, and the genocide in Darfur. More disturbing perhaps than the human impulse for war, in which nations seek military dominion over other nations, are the historically recurrent campaigns by ethnic or cultural groups to systematically annihilate other ethnic or cultural groups. Benedict Kiernan is the Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies, and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. He is the author of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur , which won the 2008 gold medal for the best book in History awarded by the Independent Publishers Association. editor of Darfur: Genocide before our Eyes and Teaching about Human Rights. Joyce Apsel is Master Teacher of Humanities in the Liberal Studies Program at NYU and the 2008-09 LSP Nominee for the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. The prevalent examples of genocide in the 20th century have come to symbolize mankind's darkest impulses, the worst excesses of human aggression, synonymous with our very conception of evil. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Voices of Rwanda, a non-profit organization dedicated to filming testimonies of Rwandans for research and use in genocide education curriculum. Apsel is founder and director of RightsWorks International, a human rights education project. He trained under Ken Burns while working as an associate producer on the seven-part series, The War , about the American experience of the Second World War. and past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. and co-editor, with Helen Fein, of Teaching about Genocide. While war can be explained in terms of politics, territorial ambition, and even economics, the genocidal impulse taps into unparalleled notions of the primal and the irrational. A historian, a filmmaker, a writer, and a psychiatrist will examine the subject from a variety of perspectives, from first-hand accounts as witnesses of human atrocity, to historical and psychological interpretation. Taylor Krauss is an independent documentary filmmaker who has worked for various media networks including the Associated Press, BBC, PBS, CNN, and HBO, among others. President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide....

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On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Sex and Violence

Roundtable discussion with Jessica Benjamin, Anthony Di Fiore, James Gilligan, Allan Siegel, Larry Siever, and Neal Simon.





Why biology degrees are still worthwhile

As university fees are set to rise to a staggering £9,000 a year, many people fear that out higher education institutions are going to revert to their elitist past. Yet this may not be the case and the rise in fees could actually have a beneficial impact on Britain’s educational system – leading to a decline in degree courses which offer few merits and making worthwhile courses more popular.

One such example of a worthwhile course is the study of a biology degree. Back in 2001 the recognition of this degree’s merits was high with a report in The Independent naming it the “ultimate twenty-first century degree.” Eleven years on and the subject has not fell from favour, with numerous celebrities and public icons holding a degree in this subject. Even celebrities thought to epitomise ‘cool’ are found to have useful degrees such as this with the lead singer of Californian punk-rock band The Offspring holding a masters degree in molecular biology and Friends star Lisa Kudrow holding a bachelors degree in Psychobiology.

Psychobiology?

What can you do with a psychobiology degree? Thank you for your time :)


You can do whatever you want to do. A few things I can think of are: forensic work; forensic autopsy (where one works backward to try to understand what occurred before a homocide and/or suicide; studying animal behavior (remember Lucy the signing


You can do whatever you want to do. A few things I can think of are: forensic work; forensic autopsy (where one works backward to try to understand what occurred before a homocide and/or suicide; studying animal behavior (remember Lucy the signing

psychobiology?

what are some good universities along the east coast that have majors in psychobiology?


Lafayette College! They have an awesome neuroscience/psychobiolgy program. They're located in Pennsylvania. Other schools with excellent programs: University of Rochester, Cornell University, Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Brown, Columbia,



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