Alexandru Balas. “When Good People Do Something: Actions During the Holocaust.”

February 6, 2019. PARCC Conversations in Conflict Studies Series. Guest Speaker: Alexandru Balas. Associate Professor of International Studies at SUNY Cortland and Director of the Clark Center for Global Engagement. What can regular people do in face of evil? What can mid-level bureaucrats do to fight against a regime which discriminates, oppresses and kills people that it doesn’t like? These are the driving questions that underline Professor Balas’ presentation on the actions taken by George Mantello, Florian Manoliu, and Jose Arturo Castellanos, three regular, mid-level bureaucrats, during the Holocaust.