In September 2022 our team has visited Boston and New England to meet with experts in the study of mass violence, to visit sites of relevance, and to examine their commemoration.
In January 2023, Vladimir Petrović presented the results of this fieldwork:
"The Road to Deer Island and Other Horrors of Southern New England"
Talk at the University of Massachusetts Boston
Troublesome aspect of early colonial experience stand out in our itinerary, which took us to multiple sites:
We discussed the state of the art with multiple experts studying mass violence, among them:
- Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston Applied Ethics Center
- Eckart Frahm, Yale University
- Ben Kiernan, Yale University
- Tomas Kuehne, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Clark University
- Steven Pinker, Harvard University
- Salem State Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Salem State University
- Richard Wilson, Human Rights Institute | University of Connecticut