MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Penn State Harrisburg's Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome James Waller, the Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice at the University of Connecticut, at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 4, via webinar. The discussion will center on his latest book, titled "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing."

This event is free and open to the public, and registration is requested. Click here to register.

Waller also serves as the acting director for the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute and is a professor of literatures, cultures, languages and human rights. In addition, he is a visiting scholar at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University in Belfast. He has authored seven books, including "Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide," and "A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland."

In 2017, Waller was the inaugural recipient of the Engaged Scholarship Prize from the International Association of Genocide Scholars in recognition of his exemplary engagement in advancing genocide awareness and prevention. Waller has written for the Washington Post, the Irish News, and the Conversation and is frequently interviewed by broadcast and print media, including PBS, CNN, CBC, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, National Geographic, Scientific American and the New York Times.

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