10:20-12:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 200 Court Yard Building
Narratives of Human Rights Violations and Genocide Then and Now
Professor Sanford Levinson - " 'Torture' or 'Inhuman and Degrading Activity'? Giving a Narrative Structure to U.S. Practice in the Abu Ghraib Prison"
Professor Bryan Wildenthal - "The Legacy of the American Genocide Against the Indians"
Professor Anna Kaladiouk - "A Ukrainian Jew in a French Court: The Sholom Schwartzbard Trial"
Professor Sandra Bermann - "Mourning, Poetry, Justice: The War-Time Writings of René Char"
Alephonsion Deng and Judy A. Bernstein - "A Sudanese Victim's Narrative of the Lost Boys: Human Rights Violations in the Sudan"

Professor of Comparative Literature

Sandra Bermann is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. In addition to articles and reviews in scholarly journals, she is the author of The Sonnet Over Time: Studies in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire, and translator of Manzoni's On the Historical Novel. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, coedited with Michael Wood, is scheduled to appear in spring 2005. Her current projects focus on lyric poetry, the intersections between twentieth-century historiography and literary theory, and new directions in the field of comparative literature. Her teaching interests include lyric poetry and translation, the history of literary theory, gender and sexuality, and ethical issues in literary study. A recipient of Whiting and Fulbright Fellowships, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris, she has served on the Advisory Board for the American Comparative Literature Association, chaired its Constitution Committee, and served on the Executive Committee for the Poetry Division of the Modern Language Association. At Princeton, she was Master of Stevenson Hall for eight years. She received her B.A. at Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University.