Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
by Dean Kenneth Vandevelde, Thomas Jefferson School of Law and
David Haber, Co-Chair of Law and Humanities Institute
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"
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"
"Judging Atrocities at the Hague and in Shakespeare: Leaders and Executioners"
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"
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"
"On Producing An Accurate Narrative of the Holocaust and Other Genocides"
Musical Interlude: David Marshman of the San Diego Opera
One for the Road by Harold Pinter and
Far Away by Caryl Churchill, directed by Charles Siegel
Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, President of Law and Humanities Institute
Dan Tritter, Esq., Vice President of the Law and Humanities Institute
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 with Cheri Attix, Esq. and Marianne Reiner, Esq of Survivors of Torture, Inc. And Doctors of the World - "Stories by Survivors of Torture Around the World"
Professor Alison Brysk - "Birthrights: Imagining Argentina by Laurence Thornton, Missing Children and Murdered Mothers"
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 Story of My experiences as a Lost Boy of Sudan"
Room 201 Court Yard Building
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"
"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"