11/25/2021
Virtual event!
Symposium "Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion: Lessons for and from Southeast Asia", 23-26 November 2021
"Confronting Genocide Denial in Cambodia"
The NEVER AGAIN Association, in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia, Balac Chula the Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture (BALAC) program, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, American University of Phnom Penh, and with support of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - IHRA cordially invites you to attend lectures by
Speakers: Sopheap Chea, Executive Director at Bophana Center Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Sayana Ser, Peace Institute of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Rafal Pankowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland.
Moderator: Visal Sorn, Civil Peace Service/forumZFD International, Battambang, Cambodia
📅 November 24 (Wednesday), 2021
📌 Via Zoom
📌📌 Online registration is free of charge and available via the following link: https://lnkd.in/dwcz9TbX
This discussion is part of the Symposium "Identifying and countering Holocaust distortion: Lessons for and from Southeast Asia". Click on the following link for further details. https://holocausteducation-asia.org
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About the Speakers
Sopheap Chea is the executive director of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center and a project manager for the KR-App project in Cambodia. He has worked with the Bophana Center for more than a decade. He holds a critical view of knowledge-sharing in the digital era: With information from different sources being thrown onto various internet platforms, recognizing valid sources is difficult and makes some users susceptible to manipulation.
Sayana Ser - born in Phnom Penh to parents of Javanese and Cham descents, Sayana Ser grew up listening to her family’s stories of the suffering inflicted on them and other Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge. She lost three of her grandparents and many other relatives during the regime. Sayana started working for the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) in 1997 as a volunteer and has compiled an extensive collection of poems, songs, and slogans of the Khmer Rouge. She has also assisted in the production of DC-Cam’s magazine ‘Searching for the truth’, which has been distributed to villages around the country. She obtained a master degree from Wageningen University, the Netherlands in 2006.
Sayana has worked on museum exhibitions and history classroom at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museaum, performing arts with survivor artists and students, documentary films and radio program, teacher training on history of Democratic Kampuchea, and genocide educational tour program. She translated ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ into Khmer language.
Rafal Pankowski is a Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. Pankowski received his MA in Political Science from the University of Warsaw. He also studied at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate. Prof. Pankowski received his PhD and Habilitation in Sociology of Culture from the University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Social Sciences. He has published widely on racism, nationalism, populism, xenophobia and other issues including the books ‘Neo-Fascism in Western Europe: A Study in Ideology’ (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998), ‘Racism and Popular Culture’ (Trio, 2006), and ‘The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots’ (Routledge, 2010). Prof. Pankowski was a visiting professor at the Centre for European Studies of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and at the International Buddhist Studies College of Mahachulalongkonrajavidyalaya University, Ayutthaya, Thailand. He is a co-founder of the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association. He is also a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
About the Moderator:
Visal Sorn is a project officer for forum Civil Peace Service/forumZFD International in Cambodia. She is currently working to detect key people within rural communities and collect their personal narratives. By critically reflecting on individual and collective stories, people are motivated to share their life histories within and outside their local communities. The goal is to empower people and let their voices be heard to increase multicultural understanding and help prevent prejudice. From 2017 to 2019, Visal volunteered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist with the equitable development of Cambodia. Between 2009 and 2016, Visal worked as a research assistant and translator for Dr. Matthew J. Trew, an anthropologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this role, she organized events with local governments, conducted interviews, and helped with Dr. Trew’s ethnographic research. She also assisted with a year-long statistical analysis of tourist sites in Battambang, Cambodia, and performed archival research. Visal has worked for both national and international organizations in Cambodia and Bangladesh. She advocates for the rights of vulnerable populations such as women, children, LGBTQI+ communities, and the elderly.
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