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During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed through torture, execution, forced labor, and starvation. Two of the most infamous sites of torture and execution in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, remain today as sites of memory. Five Ohio […]

The Making and Breaking the Law theme launches in Fall 2014 with the new interdisciplinary seminar course CAS 2500: Breaking the Law. This innovative first-year seminar course involves four faculty members from Anthropology, History, Political Science, and Criminology, each teaching a seminar course section on Tuesday (30 students) and all […]

The Department of English announces for Fall 2014 a new course, ENG 3570: Law and Literature, of interest to students pursuing the Law, Justice, and Culture certificate, Pre-Law students from any major, and students with general interest in literature and social justice. ENG 3570: Law and Literature TTh 10:30-11:50 a.m. […]

Nearly four decades after the Khmer Rouge genocide, two Ohio University faculty and six undergraduate students are headed to Cambodia this summer to study how the society remembers and reconciles its history with its present. “In the late 1970s, Cambodian society was wracked by the rule of the Khmer Rouge […]

The Ohio University Anthropology Club and Students for Law, Justice & Culture present a student-led panel, Imagining International Justice, on Thursday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in Ellis 214. The panel focuses on the ways people around the world understand and seek justice, with special attention to the politics of […]

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, speaks at Ohio University on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 p.m. in Baker Theater. A reception and book signing follow. Alexander, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, will deliver a lecture on her groundbreaking work on mass incarceration in the […]

The Anthropology of International Justice spring series features Dr. Elizabeth Drexler on “Human Rights in East Timor and Indonesia” on Tuesday, April 15, at 5 p.m. in the Multicultural Center on the second floor of the Baker Center. Drexler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Peace […]