Aegis is a genocide prevention and awareness organisation. We have various awareness raising nights in Oxford such as speaker and film events, and also various campaigns to help end the genocide in Darfur.
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Posted by Holly Morgan, Thursday 26th August 2010 @ 3:53pm Comrade Duch is appealing against his conviction and prison sentence. He was convicted in July of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years (reduced to 19 years because of time served). Prosecutors have already asked for a longer sentence, saying the judgment gave "insufficient weight to the gravity of his crimes". (Source: The Independent) E-mail newsletter sent by Holly Morgan, Wednesday 4th August 2010 @ 3:30pm "A blue-lit railway; a barbed-wire chair; a grey-streaked portrait of forgotten names. The theme is not mere survival, but life: the life of emotion and memory; the life to be found in one act of subversive self-expression - in one act of symbolism and hope."
If any of you are in Oxford this summer, you might like to check out the 'Journey' exhibition opening this Sunday. It features expressionist paintings by Polish artist Maciej Hoffman, and award-winning installations by Artes Mundi Nominee Nicola Tucker. Images of some of the works that will be on display can be seen here: http://www.nicolatucker.com/ and here: http://www.maciej-hoffman.com/
The exhibition opens on Sunday 8 August 2010, 7pm, at the Oxford Chabad Slager Centre, 61 George Street, Oxford. It will remain on display until 22 August 2010, and will be open to visitors from 10:30am to 4pm, Monday to Thursday. For more information, please write to journey.exhibition.oxford@gmail.com or call the Oxford Chabad Centre on 01865 204 757.
Best wishes,
Holly E-mail newsletter sent by Holly Morgan, Monday 2nd August 2010 @ 7:15pm Hello everyone,
First, an introduction. The co-presidents of the Oxford Aegis Society next term will be Lorna Forrester and myself, Holly Morgan. Lorna is very sweet and she really, really likes coffee. I really, really like dogs and I always bring lots of food for people at events/meetings (hint, hint). We can be contacted here: aegis@oxfordhub.org
Now for some news. You may be interested to know, particularly those of you who attended the Nic Dunlop event in 4th week last term, that Comrade Duch has now been sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment. Duch worked for the Khmer Rouge (the political party responsible for the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s) and was the head of a prison in which over 12 000 men, women and children were tortured and executed. For more details, see here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10757320
See you next term, when Lorna and I will be doing our best to follow in Janine's marvellous footsteps!
Holly E-mail newsletter sent by Janine DeFeo, Tuesday 8th June 2010 @ 2:35pm Hello everyone!
Trinity term isn't even over yet and Oxford Aegis Society is already looking ahead to next year. This week we're going to have a very friendly open committee meeting to plan out our next term - we already have a couple of really good ideas but we'd love your input. This is a great chance to get involved if you've come to any of our events or are at all curious about what we're doing!
This week's committee meeting is also going to be a small celebration of the all the hard work we've put in this year, so to reward ourselves, we're going to hold our meeting at the pub. So thats this Friday, 5 pm at the Turf. Please stop by to meet us and get a drink, we'd love to have you get involved!
See you Friday!
Janine DeFeo
president, Oxford Aegis Society E-mail newsletter sent by Janine DeFeo, Friday 28th May 2010 @ 10:32am Hello all, just a reminder of our screening of 'The Blue Book', new documentary examining Turkey's efforts to deny evidence of the Armenian genocide, with Oxford University Armenian Society tonight!
6.30 pm
Lecture Room 6, New College
'The Blue Book' focuses on Ara Sarafian's campaign to reject a petition by Turkish Grand National Assembly sent to the British parliament in 2005 asking the UK parliament to repudiate the veracity of the 1916 Blue Book, a collection of eyewitness accounts of the genocide. Sarafian worked until June 2009 with British parliamentarians to reject the Turkish position, and then took the argument to an Istanbul University conference in Turkish-Armenian relations, a mainstream Turkish current affairs programme on Turkish television, and eventually to released a Turkish translation of the Blue Book in Ankara. Following the film, there will be a discussion of the significance of Turkish denial of the genocide, featuring speakers Professor Theo Van Lint, and the filmmakers, Mr. Ara Sarafian and Mr. Gagik Karagheuzian.
See you there!
Janine
president, Oxford Aegis Society
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