Uighur Genocide and Cultural Memory

Political geographer Dr. Tamar Mayer presents her research on the mistreatment of the Muslim ethnic group in China's Xinjiang region.

Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor Emerita of Geosciences at Middlebury College and a Visiting Research Scholar at Brandeis University’s Research Consortium on Antisemitism. Formerly she was the director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. In 2023, the Tamar Mayer Professorship in Geography was endowed in her honor. Dr. Mayer’s research explores the intersections of nationalism, landscape, and memory of stateless nations.

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Co-sponsored by the David Posnack JCC

Host or Publisher The Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs