Professor of Politics at Macquarie University, Colin Tatz, teaches the third year Politics of Genocide course (POL340), at Macquarie from...

For a number of years Professor Tatz and Sandra Tatz raise funds to assist Australian students and teachers attend the...

The Council of Macquarie University formally establishes the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies (CCGS) under the leadership of Professor Tatz....

CCGS foundation staff, students, tutors and lecturers. L-R front: Jennifer Balint, Darren O’Brien, Lara Esam, Avigail Abarbanel. Back: Stuart Walton,...

The CCGS publishes the first edition of its Newsletter.

Foundation staff of the Armenian Genocide Research Unit of the CCGS and visitors. L-R Sylvia Iskenderian, Armen Gakavian, John Iskenderian,...

The CCGS publication ITNetwork, features at article on Australia’s Stolen generation.

Aerial photograph taken in 1990 of the uncovered mass grave at Serniki, Ukraine (top left of picture), shown by Professor...

The CCGS inherits Israel Charny's publication Internet on Holocaust and Genocide. Renamed International Network on Holocaust and Genocide to distinguish...

Professor Tatz delivers the first Abraham Wajnryb Memorial Lecture, entitled Reflections on the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting. The lecture...

This edition of the CCGS Newsletter featured an article on Nazi administration and the murder of Jews in the occupied...

Professor Wolfgang Benz, Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technische Universität Berlin between 1990 and 2011 visits the CCGS. L-R:...

Deputy Director of the CCGS Professor Konrad Kwiet and Wolfgang Benz at the CCGS symposium.

Professor Richard Wright, Detective Senior Sergeant David Hughes, Ex-Superintendent Bruce Huggett and Professor Konrad Kwiet at the CCGS sponsored Unearthing...

Professor Robert Wistrich of the Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism visits the CCGS and talks to Darren...

The CCGS Newsletter featured an article on Famine as a Weapon of Genocide.

The CCGS Newsletter featured an article on the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that had unfolded before Australian eyes...

Section of the CCGS reading room.

Professor Richard Hovanissian delivers the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Lecture at Macquarie.

Dr Sybil Milton and Professor Henry Friedlander of the Research Institute of the newly established United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...

The Politics of Genocide course (POL340) is taught at Macquarie from 1987 to 2003. Thousands of students from history, law,...

Genocide Perspectives Vol. I: Essays in Comparative Genocide, (365 pages), a peer reviewed journal is published by the CCGS in...

The CCGS Newsletter features an article on the strange claim of Donald Watt, a former Australian Serviceman, who purports to...

This issue of ITN focused on the Cambodian genocide. Staff from the CCGS assisted Helen Jarvis of the University of...

CCGS webmaster Mr Alexander Westwood.

A team of scholars from the CCGS including Professor Tatz, David Young, Richard Tidyman and Darren O’Brien deliver the public...

Professor Deborah Lipstadt visits the CCGS. L-R Professors Lipstadt and Konrad Kwiet, Dr Vera Ranki.

Rabbi Abraham Klausner, United States Army Captain and chaplain who became a “father figure” for the more than 30,000 emaciated...

The Pontian Greek Research Unit of the CCGS commences operation under the leadership of Panayiotis Diamadis.

Professor Tatz’s work Genocide in Australia is published by AIATSIS. In December, scholars of the CCGS send copies of the...

A new millenium brings a new direction. Core Members of the CCGS join to form an intervarsity institute “without walls”...

Students from the University of Technology Broadway, University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and Sydney University attend the UTS campus...

Students from all Sydney universities are able to attend the UTS campus in Ultimo to undertake our course. AIHGS Directors...

Professor Tatz’s work With Intent to Destroy: Reflecting on Genocide is published.

Darren O’Brien’s compilation of Volume 4 of Der Stuermer is published.

Students from all Sydney universities are able to attend the UTS campus in Ultimo to undertake our course. AIHGS Directors...

Meher Grigorian and Darren O’Brien convene one of the final courses held at Macquarie University.

The AIHGS and Brandl and Schlesinger publish Genocide Perspectives II. The volume features articles on the Armenian genocide by Professor...

The Genocide Studies Course Readings contain almost 500 pages of key articles and documents for students undertaking our course. 

POLS2096 Genocide Studies is introduced to the Australian National University in Canberra. Initially taught by Professor Tatz, Darren O’Brien and...

The AIHGS and Brandl and Schlesinger publish Genocide Perspectives III. The volume features articles on how Poles reacted to the...

POLS2100 Genocide Post 1945 is introduced to the Australian National University and taught by Professor Colin Tatz and Dr Darren...

Paul O’Shea’s work A Cross Too Heavy, on the role of the Pope during the Holocaust is published.

AIHGS Associate Dr Paul O’Shea speaks to ABC radio national about his new book. 

Dr Darren O’Brien’s work on the history of the blood libels is published by the Sassoon International Center for the...

Professor Tatz’s work Genocide in Australia by Accident or Design is published.

The AIHGS and UTSepress publish Genocide Perspectives IV. The volume features articles on genocidal dehumanisation by Rowan Savage, the role...

Dr Darren O’Brien is invited by the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and...

Professor Linda Shield’s coedited work with Susan Benedict, Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany is published.

AIHGS Associate Dr O’Brien convenes the Holocaust in Film and Document course, open to the public, in Caboolture, Queensland.

Drs Diamadis, O’Shea and O’Brien teach the final AIHGS 50251 Genocide Studies course at UTS after a continuous course run...

AIHGS Associate Dr Kirril Shields.

Professor Tatz and Professor Higgin’s work The Magnitude of Genocide is published.

AIHGS Associate Professor Winton Higgins.

Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley’s work Armenia, Australia & the Great War is published.

AIHGS Associate Mr Vicken Babkenian.

AIHGS Associate Nikki Marczak delivers the keynote address at the 100 Year Armenian Genocide Commemoration ceremony held in Melbourne, and...

Nikki Marczak arranges for Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide perpetrated by ISIS to visit Australia.

The AIHGS and University of Sydney provide a forum for Nadia Murad to tell her story of surviving ISIS.

AIHGS Associate Meher Grigorian calls out the Australian Human Rights Commission for accepting the Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance as an...

AIHGS Associates Sandra Tatz (front left) and Pam Tatz (front right) with Colin Tatz (front centre) at a Sutherland Library...

Yazidi genocide survivor Nadia Murad Basee Taha. Born in a small town in north-west Iraq, Nadia was captured by ISIS...

L-R: Professor Vrasidas Karalis, Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, Nadia Murad, Nikki Marczak, and three members of the Yazda International organisation.

Professor Tatz’s work Australia’s Unthinkable Genocide is published.

The AIHGS is involved in the annual  Armenian genocide memorial lecture held at NSW parliament house.

The AIHGS and UTSePress publish Genocide Perspectives V. The volume includes articles on the Bringing them Home report by Anna...

Genocide Perspectives V is launched at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Guests include, L-R, Tanya Plibersek, contributing authors: Geoffrey Robertson, Colin...

AIHGS Associates join with academics nationwide in petitioning SBS to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

The AIHGS co-sponsors the 13th Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars conference held at the University of Queensland.

The AIHGS becomes a foundation Member of the Australasian Association of Holocaust Organisations.

AIHGS Associate Professor Linda Shields.

The AIHGS partners with the AR2P to screen First they killed my Father, Angelina Jolie’s film on the Cambodian genocide.

The book First Into the Dark, is launched at UTS, Sydney. The work written by AIHGS Associates Clinical Associate Professor...

Dr Edwina Light and Associate Professor Michael Robertson sign copies of First Into the Dark at the launch held at...

Professor Colin Tatz sadly passes away at his home in Sydney aged 85 years. Nikki Marczak and Meher Grigorian write...

The University of Queensland genocide course is convened by Dr Kirril Shields.

The AIHGS and UTSePress publish Genocide Perspectives VI. The volume is dedicated to the life and work of Professor Tatz....

New logo and new projects for 2021 and beyond in a post COVID world.

In the midst of COVID, the AIHGS organises the registered, persecuted, annihilated. travelling exhibition from Germany, to be held at...

Dr Darren O’Brien and Mr Billy Cummings at the launch of the AIHGS organised registered, persecuted, annihilated. exhibition.

Launch of the registered, persecuted, annihilated. exhibition. L-R Member for Aspley, Mr Bart Mellish, Board of Queensland Museum chair and...

The AIHGS organises the registered, persecuted, annihilated. travelling exhibition from Germany, to be held at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s...

The AIHGS at the Qld Rwandan Association genocide commemorative ceremony. 

AIHGS Associate Dr Ray Kerkhove.

AIHGS Associate Captain Samuel White.

The first new online course via the new website is launched. The course accompanies Dr Kerkhove's new book How they...