| 4:30-6:00 P.M. | Conference Registration at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
| 6:00-8:00 P.M. | Wine & Cheese Reception hosted by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
| 8:00-9:00 A.M. | Conference Registration at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
| 9:00-9:15 A.M. | Welcoming Remarks by Frank Chalk, President, AGS and Co-Director,
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia
University, and Stephen Feinstein, Local Arrangements Chair and Director,
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota |
| 9:15-11:00 A.M. | Panel 1: Strategies for Preventing Genocide and Mobilizing Publics
Levene, Mark. Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry. ãA Dissenting Voice, or How Current Assumptions of Deterring and Preventing Genocide May Be Looking At the Problem Through the Wrong End of the Telescope.ä Hirsch, Herbert. Department of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University. "Building A Movement to Stop Genocide." Huttenbach, Henry. Department of History, City University of New York, and Journal of Genocide Research. ãSeparating Preventable from Unpreventable Genocide: Towards A Methodology of Classification.ä Heidenrich, John G. Senior Analyst for Genocide and Instability Warning Issues, Open Source Solutions (OSS), Inc. "American Conservatives and Humanitarian Intervention." |
| 11:00-11:15 A.M. | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:30 A.M. | Panel 2: Definition and Policy
Fein, Helen. Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Genocide; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Past President, Association of Genocide Scholars. "Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: Definitional Evasion, Fog, Morass or Opportunity?" Theriault, Henry. Department of Philosophy ,Worcester State College, and Center for Holocaust Studies, Clark University. "The Prevention and Punishment of Genocide: Toward A Flexible Definition of the Act." |
| 12:30-2:00 P.M. | AGS Lunch, Announcement of the winner of the Institute for the Study of Genocide Raphael Lemkin Book Award, and Presentation by Prof. Ervin Staub on ãBreaking the Cycle of Violence: Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda" |
| 2:00-3:30 P.M. | Panel 3: The Pros and Cons of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Sanford, Victoria. Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. "Coming to Terms with Genocide in Guatemala: The Chilling Effect of Army Impunity and Local Prosecution." Snyman, Johan. Department of Philosophy, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesbug, South Africa. "The Politics of Memory, Truth Commissions and Crimes Against Humanity." Panel 4: Rwanda: Mass Participation in Killing and Western Indifference Straus, Scott. Doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. "Institutions, Ideology and War: Towards A Theory of Participatory Genocide in Rwanda." Mironko, Charles K. Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, and Associate Director, Council on International Studies, Yale University. ãIgitero (Mob Culture) during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.ä Wagner, Michele. Department of History, University of Minnesota. ãTumbling Down the 'Slippery Slope': From Collective Politics to Collective Violence in Nyakizu Commune, Southern Rwanda.ä Kotek, Joel. Free University of Brussels and Ecole superieure de Journalisme of Lille. "The Lesson of Rwanda, A Genocide That Could Have Been Prevented." Panel 5: Genocide and the Oromo People Hassen, Mohammed. Department of History, Georgia State University, Atlanta. "Is Genocide Against the Oromo People Possible in Ethiopia?" Trueman, Dr. Trevor. Medical practitioner in Internal Medicine and Family Practice, Chair, Oromia Support Group, United Kingdom. "Genocide Against the Oromo People in Ethiopia? Western Influence." |
| 3:30-3:45 P.M. | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-5:45 P.M. | Panel 6: Representation and Misrepresentation: The Armenian Case.
Joyce Apsel, Convener. Apsel, Joyce. Director, Rights Works; New York University. "Official Denial: The Armenian Genocide, Genocide Studies and the Internet." Dolabjian, Vartkes. Montreal. "The Armenian Genocide in the Encyclopedia Britanica." Peroomian, Rubina. Associate Researcher, UCLA. "The Truth of the Armenian Genocide in Edgar Hilsenrath's Fiction." Kimura, Akio. Doctoral candidate, English Literature, Drew University. "Genocide and the Modern Mind: Intention and Structure." Panel 7: Building an International Campaign to Prevent and Punish Genocide Gregory Stanton, Convener. Stanton, Gregory H. Director, Genocide Watch and Coordinator, International Campaign to End Genocide. "Genocide Watch: Coordinating the International Campaign to End Genocide." Fussell, James. Education Director, Prevent Genocide International. "Group Classifications on National Identity Cards as a Facilitating Factor in Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Massive Violations of Human Rights." O'Brien, Richard. President, Genocide Prevention Center. "Genocide Monitoring and Proof Using Satellite Imaging." Cook, Susan E. Director, Cambodia Genocide Program, Yale University. "Prosecuting Genocide in Cambodia: The Cambodia Genocide Programâs Contributions." |
| 7:00-9:00 P.M. | Reception and Banquet (Keynote speech by Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald) |
| 8:30-10:00 A.M. |
Panel 8: The Function of Cruelty Alvarez, Alex. Department of Criminal Justice. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. "Cruelty in the Camps." Jonassohn, Kurt. Department of Sociology and Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University. ãThe Culture of Brutality.ä Turcotte, Kerry. Doctoral student in Sociology, McMaster University. "Independent Torture or Ordinary Crime? A Rethinking of Torture Scholarship in Light of Somalia, 1993." |
| 10:00-10:15 A.M. | Coffee Break |
| 10:15-11:45 A.M. | Panel 9: Yugoslavia
Besirevic Regan, Jasmina. Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Yale University. "What Happened in Banja Luka? The Stories of Bosnian Muslim Refugees." Georgakis, Angelo. Doctoral candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota. "The Reactions of Serbs in Serbia to the Charge of Genocide." Discussant: Anthony Oberschall, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina Panel 10: The Range of Shoah Remembrance: From Concentration Camp to Cybertourism. William Miles, Convener. Miles, William. Department of Political Science and Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Northeastern University. "Dark and 'Darker' Tourism." Feinstein, Stephen. Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota. "Remembering or Repelling? Reflections on Misguided Artistic and Monument Projects about the Holocaust." Huttenbach, Henry. Department of History, City University of New York. "A Tale of Four Cities: Berlin, Jerusalem, Washington, New York." Panel 11: Children, Gender and Genocide Smith, Roger. Department of Government, College of William & Mary; Past President, Association of Genocide Scholars. "Children As Victim-Perpetrators of Genocide: A Comparative Study." Jones, Adam. International Studies, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City. ãGenocide and Humanitarian Intervention: Incorporating the Gender Variable.ä Carpenter, R. Charli. Doctoral student, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, Eugene. ãBeyond Gendercide: Theory, Concepts and Method on Gender in Comparative Genocide Studies.ä |
| 12:00-1:30 P.M. | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30-3:00 P.M. | Panel 12: Perpetrators, Coercive Dynamics and the Social Psychology of
Genocide
Lang, Berel. Humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, CN. ãThe Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Genocide.ä Charny, Executive Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem. ãA Genocide Scholar Returns to His Home Discipline: What Does the Study of Genocide Teach Us About Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind.ä Sallach, David L. Director, Social Science Research Computing, University of Chicago. ãGenocide and Coercive Field Dynamics.ä Panel 13: Avoiders and Deniers: Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia and East Timor Cribb, Robert. Department of History, University of Queensland, Australia. "Legacies of Fear: Impacts of the 1965-66 Killings on Recent Indonesian Politics." Tatz, Colin. Director, Center for Comparative Genocide Studies, Macquarie University, N. Ryde, Australia. "The Denial of Black Armband History." Kiernan, Ben. Department of History and Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University. "High-Stakes Controversies Over Genocides in Small Countries." Panel 14: Kosovo and Macedonians in Greece Semelin, Jacques. CNRS, Paris, and Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. ãSome ÎLessonsâ from Kosovo.ä Riemer, Neal. Department of Political Science, Drew University, Madison, NJ. ãJust Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Long-Range Success: Kosovo.ä Ortakovski, Vladamir T. Faculty for Security and Criminology, SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje; Undersecretary for Higher Education, Republic of Macedonia. "Macedonians in Greece in the Twentieth Century: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Denationalization, Assimilation and Non-Recognition." |
| 3:00-3:15 P.M. | Coffee break |
| 3:15-5:15 P.M. | Panel 15: Issues Confronting the Directors of Centers for Holocaust and/or
Genocide Studies. Eric Markusen, Convener. Eric Markusen, Department of Social Sciences, Southwest State University, Marshall, MN, and Research Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen Israel Charny, Executive Director, The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem Uffe Ostergard, Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Stephen Feinstein, Director, University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Harald Runblom, Director, Uppsala Program for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sweden Colin Tatz, Director, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Panel 16: Parting the Curtains on Hidden Histories, Influences and Patterns Robins, Nicholas. Visiting Scholar, Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Executive Director, Fundacion Amistad; and President, Bolivian Studies Assoc. ãGenocide and the Great Rebellion of 1780-1782 in Peru and Upper Peru.ä Jonassohn, Kurt. Department of Sociology and Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University. ãOn A Neglected Aspect of Western Racism." Jacobs, Rabbi Steven L. Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. "Raphael Lemkin and the Journey to Genocide." Eells, Jonathan. Doctoral student, Department of Political Science, UCLA. ãOn the Fence÷Both Sides: Diaspora Politics.ä |
| 5:15-7:30 P.M. | Free time and dinner on your own |
| 7:30-9:30 P.M. | Holocaust Witnesses: The Historical Significance of the Victimâs Voice.
Video and Discussion
Wiederhorn, Jessica. Senior Associate for Academic Relations, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. "Memories of the Sonderkommando Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Segments from the Shoah Foundation Archive of Videotaped Testimonies." Sinnreich, Helene. Doctoral candidate, Comparative History, Brandeis University. ãTestimony Disregarded: Holocaust Victims and Historians.ä |
| 8:00-9:00 A.M. | Panel 17: Community Values, Rescue, and Memory
Jensen, Mette Bastholm. Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, Yale University. "Collective Identity in Action: The 1943 Rescue of the Danish- Jewish Community." Rosmus, Anna E. Freelance writer, Washington, DC. "Where Hitler Used to Live: Post-Holocaust Pocking and Passau." |
| 9:00-9:15 A.M. | Coffee break |
| 9:15-10:45 A.M. | Panel 18: Prejudice, Realpolitik and Genocide
Bendersky, Joseph W. Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University. "National Security Rationalizations in the U.S. Army's Response to the Holocaust: New Evidence and Cautionary Lessons." Midlarsky, Manus. International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Rutgers University. ãRaison dâŽtat, raison dâŽglise: Realpolitik and the Onset of Genocide.ä Nagy, Thomas. Management Science Department, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University. "The Role of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Document on 'Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities' in Halting One Genocide and Preventing Another." Panel 19: Propagating Genocide: Borrowing and Permitting Weitz, Eric. History Department. University of Minnesota. ãAre Genocides Modular? Assessing the Transmission of Genocidal Practices." Hiebert, Maureen. Doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. ãThe Role of a ÎPermissiveâ Political Culture in Genocide.ä Hinton, Alex. Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University. "Global Flows and Local Realities: Khmer Rouge Ideology in the Cambodian Genocide." Panel 20: Rebuilding and Reconciling Bustillo, Camilo Perez, Media Studies and Law, State of Mexico campus, Monterrey Institute of Technology, and Hans Egil Offerdal, International and Intercultural Communication, and Theology, Monterrey Institute of Technology. "Truth and Reconciliation in the Face of Genocide." Oberschall, Anthony, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Ken Palmer, Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "After Genocide and Civil Strife: Can Power Sharing Work." Asgede Hagos. Department of Communications, Delaware State University. "The Role and Potential of Peace Radio in Peace Building: The Cases of Burundi, Uganda and Somalia." |
| 11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. | AGS Business Meeting and Lunch |
| 1:00-3:00 P.M. | Panel 21: Teaching About Genocide
Auron, Yair. Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. ãTeaching About the Holocaust and Genocide in Israel.ä Linn, Ruth. Department of Education, University of Haifa. ãBetween the ÎKnownâ and the ÎCould Be Knownâ: The Vrba/Wetzler Escape from Auschwitz and Israeli Historiography.ä Bartrop, Paul R. Deakin University and Bialik College, Toorak, Victoria, Australia. ãEducation As A Tool for Combating Genocide Denial.ä Herman, Lisa. Doctoral candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies. ãHow Do We React to Genocideä Panel 22: Genocide Law, Its Uses and Compensation for Survivors Markusen, Eric. Department of Social Sciences, Southwest State University, Marshall, MN, and Research Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. "The Meaning of Genocide as Expressed in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda." Schabas, William. Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway. ãThe ad hoc Tribunals: Developments in the Law of Genocide.ä Bazyler, Michael J. Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California. ãThe Holocaust Restitution Movement in Comparative Perspective.ä |
| 3:00-3:15 P.M. | Coffee break |
| 3:15-4:30 P.M. | The AGS: Future Directions? Next Conference. |