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"

Judge for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Judge Fausto Pocar was born in 1939 in Italy. He 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. Judge Fausto Pocar served several times as a member of the Italian delegation to the General Assembly in New York and to the Commission of Human Rights in Geneva. He was also a member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He is a member of the Institut de droit international and of several academic associations. 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.