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Professor
Susan Tiefenbrun,Conference Organizer,is proud to presentthe:
Conference on Law and
the Humanities' Representation of the Holocaust, Genocide and Other Human
Rights Violations
January l6, 2005 Congregation Beth Israel, San Diego
January l7, 2005 Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego
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is imperative that we focus our attention now on the dangers of intolerance
and on the fear of the other since genocides are happening in the present
and anti-semitism is on the rise worldwide. It is time to examine the
role that the arts, the humanities in general, and narratives in particular
can play to raise the consciousness of our society to the root causes
of genocide. This unique and interdisciplinary conference will focus
on different ways in which narratives-stories told in literature, film,
theater, and art as well as the words used about genocide in lawsuits,
international law, histories by historians and tales recounted by victims
of genocide-help or hurt the development of truthful and sensitive memory
regarding hideous events in the past and present. These events include
the Armenian genocide, the American Indian genocide, the Holocaust in
Europe, the more recent Rwandan genocide, the Iraqi annihilation of
the Kurds, the ethnic-cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the genocide
in Darfur, Sudan to cite but a few of these horrific genocidal crimes.
More than 45 speakers
and experts from such diverse fields of law, literature, film, art,
journalism, and political science will gather together at this conference
to discuss the role of the arts in representing genocide. Some of the
distinguished speakers at the conference include: Daniel Goldhagen
(Hitler's Willing Executioners), Bernhard Schlink (The
Reader), Professor Richard Falk (Princeton University and
U.C. Santa Clara), Judge Theodor Meron (President of the International
Criminal Tribunal for Crimes Against the Former Yugoslavia), Judge
Fausto Pocar (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda), and Professor
Richard Weisberg (pioneer of the law and literature movement).
MCLE credit is available for this Conference.
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Alephonsion
Deng
A Story of My Experiences as a Lost Boy of Sudan
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Theatre Presentation of:
One for the Road
by Harold Pinter
Far Away
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Charles Siegel
8:00-9:15
pm
Sunday, January l6, 2005
at Congregation Beth Israel
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Judge
Theodor Meron |
Since his election to the Tribunal by
the U.N. General Assembly in March 2001, Judge Meron, a citizen
of the United States, has serviced on the Appeals Chamber,
which hears appeals from both the International Criminal Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). A leading scholar of international
humanitarian law, human rights, and international criminal
law, Judge Meron wrote some of the books and articles that
helped build the legal foundations for international criminal
tribunals. A Shakespeare enthusiast, he has also written articles
and books on the law of war and chivalry in Shakespeare's
historical plays.
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Bernhard
Schlink |
Professor Schlink is the author of the
best-selling novel The Reader, which The New York Times
described as "arresting, philosophically elegant, morally
complex." This past winter he co-authored Weimar:
A Jurisprudence of Crisis with Professor Arthur Jacobson.
He also has written several books on constitutional law, fundamental
rights, and the issue of separation of powers. In addition,
he sits on the Constitutional Law Court for the State of Nordhein-Westfalen,
Munster. Professor Schlink holds a Referendar and a J.D. from
Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg.
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Judge
Fausto Pocar
Judge Fausto Pocar is Professor of International
Law at the University of Milan (Italy). In 1984, he was elected
member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations,
a position he held until 2000; he was its chairman in 1991 and
1992. He took part in the world conference on Human Rights in
Vienna in 1993, and was special representative of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya in 1995
and in Russia in 1996. He was also a member of the United Nations
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He was appointed
a judge of the ICTY in 1999 and has been a member of the Appeals
Chamber of the ICTR since 14 February 2000.
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Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen |
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In Hitler's Willing Executioners,
the product of years of studying the Holocaust, Daniel Goldhagen
gives a radical new answer: Germans degraded, brutalized,
and slaughtered Jews not, as has previously been asserted,
because Germans were coerced, because of irresistible social
or psychological pressure, or because they were slavishly
obedient to their Führer and merely following
orders, but because a virulent form of antisemitism that had
been generations in the making permeated German society, leading
Germans to believe that the extermination was justified and
necessary.
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Richard
Falk |
Remembering the Holocaust and the
Geopolitical Persistence of Indifference
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International
Law and Practice at Princton University - Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs. He has authored more
than a dozen books including Law, War and Morality in the
Contemporary Work, and Legal Order in a Violent World.
He was counsel to the International Court of Justice; research
director of the Coming Global Civilization project; and honorary
Vice-President of the American Society of International Law
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Richard
Weisberg |
Professor Weisberg is involved in theoretical
and litigation-oriented approaches to the subject of his book
Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France. He also has
pioneered the worldwide "Law and Literature" movelment
and is the author or The Failure of the World; When
Lawyers Write and Poethics: And Other Strategies of
Law and Literature. An editor of the Columbia Law Review,
he was associated with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Professor Weisberg was a fellow of the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the Society for the Humanities and
the Society for the Humanities of Cornell University.
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