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The lecture you missed

Professor Lee Ann Fujii from the University of Toronto gave a talk titled “Deadly Ties: Neighbor-level Violence in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the United States” on Tuesday in the Indiana Memorial Union Dogwood Room.

She discussed her interviews with those involved in the Rwandan genocide, as well as her research methods for her previous and current book. Fujii said her research isn’t done to generalize attitudes about lethal ethnic and racial violence, but to reconstruct the social environments where the neighbor-level violence took place.

Why was she here?

The lecture was a “Making War, Making Peace” Themester event. Fujii’s current project compares three killings: the massacre of 100 Muslim men in a Serbian-controlled area of Bosnia in 1992, the murder of a prominent Tutsi family in Rwanda in 1994 and the lynching of George Armwood in Maryland in 1933.

Most surprising quote

“Our whole history is about racial violence.”

To learn more

Fujii’s first book, “Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda,” is available online through the IU Library.

— Kate Thacker