Registration

Welcoming Remarks by Dean Kenneth Vandevelde, Thomas Jefferson School of Law and David Haber, Co-Chair of Law and Humanities Institute

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"

Break

Narratives of Retributive and Non-Retributive Justice and Genocide
Professor William Schabas, "Challenges to Reconciliation: The Truth       Commission of Sierra Leone"
Professor Terry Phelps, "The Far Side of Revenge: Quilts, Plays,       Museums, and Truth Reports"
Wanda M. Akin, Esq., "Literary Realism and Is Justice 'On the       Cheap' Really Just?: A Report from the Defense on the Special       Court for Sierra Leone"
Raymond M. Brown, Esq., "You have 48 hours to Turn Yourself       In! A Meditation on Choice, 'Otherness' and Atrocities"
Allan Gerson, Esq., "Accountability: From Nazis to Facilitators of       9/11. The Banality of Evil Writ Large"

Lunch:
Keynote Speaker: Judge Theodor Meron, "Judging Atrocities at the Hague and in Shakespeare: Leaders and Executioners"

Stories Told and Written of the Holocaust
Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Ph. D., "The Story of My Experience As a Holocaust       Survivor: From Victimization to Empowerment"
Professor Randy Sturman, "Law, Narratives Through Medicine and       the Holocaust: The Influence of the Holocaust on End-of-Life       Decisions in Israel"
Lou Dunst, "The Story of a Holocaust Survivor in Auschwitz,       Matthausen, and My Near Escape from Death"
Merle Fischlowitz, Ph. D., "Poems about the Holocaust-A Reading"

Break

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

Cocktail Hour:
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Goldhagen, "On Producing An Accurate Narrative of the Holocaust and Other Genocides"

Banquet Dinner:
Keynote Speaker: Bernhard Schlink
Musical Interlude: David Marshman of the San Diego Opera

Theatre: One for the Road by Harold Pinter and Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Charles Siegel

Discussion of Theatrical Performance

Readers' Corner: Books on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations are available for your reading pleasure during this Conference by the generous gift of Professor Maureen Markey and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law library. These books include works by many of the participants in this Conference.

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Welcoming Remarks
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, President of Law and Humanities       Institute
Dan Tritter, Esq, Vice President of the Law and Humanities Institute

The Narratives of Women, Human Rights Violations, and Genocide
Judith Koffler, Esq., "Taliban Tales: Representations of Outrage to       Afghan Women"
Kelly Askin, "Ensuring Gender Crimes Are Not Ignored When       Prosecuting Genocide and Other International Crimes"
Kathi Anderson and Survivors of Torture, Inc., "Stories by       Survivors of Torture Around the World"
Professor Alison Brysk, "Birthrights: Imagining Argentina by Laurence Thornton, "Missing Children and Murdered Mothers"

Break

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 Kaladiouck, "Execution Before the Verdict: The       Schwartzbard Trial: A Ukrainian Jew in a French Court"
Professor Sandra Bermann, "Mourning, Poetry, Justice: The       War- Time Writings of René Char"
Alephonsion Deng and Judy A. Bernstein, A Story of My       Experiences as a Lost Boy of Sudan"

The Limits of Narrative
Professor Harriet Murav, "The Limits of Testimony on Genocide in       Dovid Bergelson's Yiddish Prose"
Professor Ellen Waldman, "The Limits of Narrative:Story-telling and       'Magical Thinking' in Restorative Justice Schemas"
Professor Ilene Durst, "Bearing False Witness: Genocide and       Narrative [Un]Reliability"
Professor Deborah Hertz, " The Lessons of Viktor Klemperer's       Unhappy Jewish Identity"

Luncheon:
Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Falk, "Remembering the Holocaust and the Geopolitical Persistence of Indifference"

Art, Film and Letters of the Holocaust:
Ann Kirschner, "The Last New Voices: A Case Study of A       Survivor's Inheritance"
Professor Gila Naveh, "Film and Fiction About the Holocaust"
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, " The film The Pianist: On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War"
Professor Andrea Liss, "Art of the Shoah as Documentation and       Post-Witnessing"
Leah Ollman: L.A. Times Art Critic, "Reckoning With the Past (and       Future) Through Art"

Concluding Remarks by Professor Richard Weisberg

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