3:15-5:00 pm Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
Understanding the Limits of Representations of Catastrophe: The Case of the Holocaust: Panel Discussion
Daniel Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader
Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham and Second Hand Smoke
Richard Weisberg, author of Failure of the Word, and Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France
Ed Rothstein, N.Y. Times Critic at Large - "The Role of Literary and Artistic Works on the Holocaust"

6:00-7:45 pm Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
Banquet Dinner: Keynote Speaker: Bernhard Schlink
Musical Interlude: David Marshman of the San Diego Opera

Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy
Humbold University of Berlin

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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