A human-rights expert will discuss women surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide 7 p.m. April 12 in the Atwood Memorial Center Ballroom.
Theresa de Langis is a senior specialist on women’s rights during Asian Pacific conflicts. She is an independent researcher and creator of the Cambodian Women’s Oral History Project, which collects testimony about sexual- and gender-based crimes during the 1975-79 genocide.
She will lead a workshop for students titled “Oral History, Ethics and Practice” 2 p.m. April 11 in Atwood Memorial Center, Alumni Room.
Pol Pot (1925-98) and the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, following the Cambodian Civil War. About 2 million people died. Unmarried men and women were forced to marry partners chosen by the government.
De Langis has published a variety of academic and policy articles and is a frequent speaker at global and regional conferences.
She serves the American University of Phnom Penh as an associate professor and as senior technical adviser to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on Gender, Genocide and Oral History.
Her visit is made possible through a partnership with the Khmer Legacy Museum in St. Paul.
Her talks are sponsored by these St. Cloud State entities: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, Women’s Center, Department of Ethnic & Women’s Studies, and Department of History.
