It Can Happen Here: Great Replacement Fear & Polarization in the U.S.
with Alexander Laban Hinton
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Starts at 5:00 PM
Location: COB1-120
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For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speaker:
Alex Hinton (@AlexLHinton) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the award-winning author or editor of seventeen books, including, Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide(California, 2005), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016). In recognition of his work on genocide, the American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology. He was also just awarded the association’s 2022 Anthropology in the Media Award. Professor Hinton is a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13), a Member/Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2011-13), and co-convener of the Global Consortium on Bigotry and Hate (2019-24). His most recent books are Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford, 2023) and two interlinked texts, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021) and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022), which centers on his 2016 experience testifying as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.
