Name: Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women.
Start: 2026-05-27T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-27T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Attenborough Building Room 101

Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women.

Dive into powerful stories of resilience from Armenian and Yezidi women who survived unimaginable hardships.
About this Event

On 3 August 2014, Islamic State forces invaded the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, and committed genocide against the Yezidi population. This talk will discuss the importance of survivors’ testimony , allowing us to understand the motives of the perpetrators, experience of captivity, and explore the context in which survivors give testimonies today.

This talk will be led Dr Rebecca Jinks, a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?, which examines the ways in which representations of the Holocaust have influenced how other genocides are understood and represented, focusing on the ‘canonical’ cases of genocide, Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.