Acknowledgements

The papers in this volume derive from a conference held at Mount Royal University in Calgary in February 2014. The conference was made possible by funding from the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic, the Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University, as well as the Students’ Association of Mount Royal University, the Calgary Jewish Federation, the History Education Network (THEN/HiER), and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. I would like to thank my co-convener, Tristan Smyth, for bringing me into this important project, as well as all of the conference participants, session chairs, conference organizers and volunteers who made “Understanding Atrocities” a success. For their particular contributions to the conference and to this volume, I especially thank Joe Anderson, Jennifer Pettit, Liam Haggarty, Jeff Keshen, Renae Watchman, Sabina Trimble, Glen Ryland, Natalie Meisner, Sharon Smulders, Penny Stratton, and Pat Proudfoot. I am also grateful to the Faculty of Arts at MRU and the University of Calgary Press for initiating the MRU Arts in Action Series, of which this is the first volume.