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Jillian Carson
Monday, March 28, 2016

Congratulations to 2012 graduate Jillian Carson for her work on a Massachusetts bill to extend the statute of limitations for international human rights abuses. 

Carson currently in her second year at New England Law | Boston. She is also the research assistant at the school’s Center for International Law and Policy. The Center coordinates research projects for students in partnership with international organizations in various areas of international law.

Legacies of Slavery in Barcelona
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

As part of the Memory, Architecture, and Public Space Traveling Seminar, 2014 AHDA Fellow Oriol López-Badell and the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) launched the walking tour Legacies of slavery in Barcelona: Monuments and Public Spaces.

Nora Ahmetaj
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Congratulations to 2015 AHDA fellow Nora Ahmetaj who was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the Bournemouth University workshop Re-Imagining Conflict-Transformation: Making Memory Meaningful.
 
Nayla Hamadeh Shares Her AHDA Experiences
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

2015 Fellow Nayla Hamadeh recounted her time with the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) in a recent article for the European Association of History Educators.

Nayat Karaköseoglu
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
On January 29th, Nayat Karaköseoglu, a 2014 AHDA alumna and a program coordinator at the Hrant Dink Foundation, participated in a panel entitled, “Topographies of Memory: Exchanging Knowledge and Best Practices.” The aim of the panel was to look at memorialization projects that use and implement a variety of technological tools, with the goal of increasing the efficacy of efforts against social amnesia and the politics of oblivion: Online maps, websites, applications for smartphones and guided tours incorporating sites of memory are among ef