Human Rights and the Armenian Genocide

A conversation with Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

Monday, April 13, 2015
12:15 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357

ABOUT THE TALK

How did the United States respond to the Armenian genocide? What were the prospects for war crimes trials for the perpetrators of the killing campaign? In an event marking the centenary of the genocide—which began in April 1915—Gary Bass, a leading expert on the politics of human rights, will discuss the Armenian genocide as a landmark event in ongoing debates over intervention and international justice.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Gary Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide; Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention; and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. The Blood Telegram was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award, the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize. It was also a New York Times and Washington Post notable book of the year and a best book of the year in The Economist, Financial Times, and The New Republic. A former reporter for The Economist, Bass has written often for The New York Times, as well as writing for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other publications.

Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA International and Comparative Law Program, Armenian Law Students Association