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"

Sanford Levinson is a Professor of Law and Government at the University of Texas in Austin. He has also taught at the Harvard, Yale, NYU, Boston University, and Hebrew University Schools of Law. He is the author, among other works, of Constitutional Faith (1988); Written in stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998); and Wrestling With Diversity (2003). Most recently, he has edited Torture: A Collection (2004). He is, this coming semester (Spring 2005) teaching a reading course at Harvard Law School on "Torture, Law, and Lawyers."