8:40-10:10 am Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
The Law and Literature of The Holocaust and Genocide
Professor Geoffrey Hartman - "Holocaust Testimony in a Genocidal Era"
Professor Penny Pether - "Ungovernable Subjects: Of Sex, Texts and Genocidal Practices in Post-invasion Australia"
Judge Fausto Pocar - "The Approach of the ICTY and the ICTR to Prosecuting Genocide Cases and the Role of Retributive Justice in the Ad hoc International Tribunals"
Professor Saul Mendlovitz - " The Prevention, Apprehension and Punishment of Genocide"

Penelope Pether is a Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at American University Washington College of Law, where she teaches Criminal Law and Legal Rhetoric. A General Editor of Law and Literature (University of California Press) and member of the Editorial Board of Law and Critique (Kluwer), she was a founding editor of Law/Text/Culture. Her scholarship focuses on legal discourses, institutions and subject formation, and is characteristically both feminist and poststructualist in methodology. She is currently working on the lawmaking practices of the U.S. judiciary. Her most recent article, "Inequitable Injunctions: the Scandal of Private Judging in the U.S. Courts" is published in 56(6) Stanford Law Review (2004).