The Zoryan Webinars

In this episode, guest editor Dr. Sarah Wilson discusses the Zoryan Institute’s newly released special issue of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies , titled "The Republic of Armenia: Migration and Diaspora in Times of Threat and Uncertainty." Dr. Wilson brings a global migration lens to the evolving questions of Armenian identity, displacement, and belonging. Drawing on both historical an...

In this webinar, hosted as part of the Zoryan Institute’s 2022 Climate Change, Human Rights & Genocide Webinar Series, Professor Deborah McGregor examines the relationships between indigenous peoples, rights, and colonialism that perpetuates injustice. She also explains why Indigenous leadership and knowledges are critical for advancing climate justice goals, and how climate impacts render Ind...

In this webinar, hosted as part of the Zoryan Institute’s 2022 Climate Change, Human Rights & Genocide Webinar Series, Professor Lauren Eichler of Old Dominion University explores topics such as ecocide, the colonial ideologies behind it, and the impacts on Indigenous Peoples. This presentation explores how the dualistic and racist Western-colonial conceptions of "human" and "nature" have harm...

In this webinar, hosted as part of the Zoryan Institute’s 2020 Genocide and Human Rights Webinar Series, Professor Flávio de Leão Bastos Pereira discusses: Indigenous nations in Brazil are facing worsening violations of their human rights such as invasions of their traditional lands which is a fundamental basis of their lives and cultures; fires that destroy biomes caused by invaders; state violen...

In this webinar, hosted as part of the Zoryan Institute’s 2020 Genocide and Human Rights Webinar Series , Professor Lorena Fontaine discusses the impact of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples in North America, with a focus on the loss of Indigenous languages. She explores how language is deeply tied to identity, culture, and rights, and why its revitalization is essential to reconciliation and justi...