Please note that the list of presenters and contact information follows the list of panels-- a preliminary list.  The second list is scheduled for April and the final program will be available in May. TBA indicates:  to be announced. For subsequent lists, see the ISG-IAGS web-site: WWW.ISG-IAGS.ORG.  For registration and other information for the IAGS Conference to be held at the Irish Human Rights Centre, Galway, Ireland June 7-10, 2003, see www.nuiglway.ie/human_rights/ 
GENOCIDE AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY and the ISG-IAGS web-site: WWW.ISG-IAGS.ORG/2003iags-conf.html 


For abstracts or papers, contact presenters directly.  For presenters wishing to make changes, contact IAGS Vice-President Robert Melson, melson@polsci.purdue.edu 

Panels 

1. Survivor Testimony-The Armenian and Rwandan Cases 

Richard G. Hovannisian, "Rewards and Pitfalls of Armenian Oral History: The UCLA Collection." 

Rubina Peroomian, "To Build a Normal Life Beyond a Traumatic Past:  The Case of the Survivors of the Smyrna Tragedy." 

Donald E. Miller and Lorna T. Miller, "The Armenian and Rwandan Genocides: Comparisons of Two Oral History Projects with Survivors." 

2. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples [A] 
       
Conveners: Eric Markusen and Chris Mato Nunpa 

Moderator: Eric Markusen 

Ben Madley, "Patterns of frontier genocide, 1903-1910: The aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia." 

Alan Jacobs, "The Lingering Effects of Genocide on the Reservation: Current Conditions, Attitudes and Conflicts of the Blackfoot People." 

Chris Mato Nunpa, "Genocide, the Bible, and the Indigenous Peoples of the  United States." 

Colin Tatz, "Can good colonists commit genocide? The Australian case." 


3. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples [B] 

Conveners: Eric Markusen and Chris Mato Nunpa 

Moderator: Chris Mato Nunpa 

Mark Levene, "Historiography, States, Frontiers, and Indigenous Peoples." 

Stephen Corry, "'Development' as destroyer: Cases from South America, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean." 

Ben Kiernan, "Native Americans and Australian aboriginals: A study in  comparative indigenous genocides." 

Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong, "Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries." 

4. Definitionalism in Genocide Studies 

Thomas Cushman, "A Critique of Definitionalism in Genocide Studies." 

Israel W. Charny, "Making Constructive Use of the High Recognition Factor of  Lemkin's Term, 'Genocide,' in a Comparative Classification of Multiple Types of Genocide." 

Discussant: Erik Markusen 

5.Life after Death: Rebuilding Genocide Survivors' Lives: Challenges and Opportunities. [Plenary #3] 

Conveners: Yael Danieli and Francois Ngarambe 

Lea Balint, Director, Dept. of Children with Lost Identity, The Ghetto Fighters House, Israel 

Yael Danieli, Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their  Children, Co-Pres., International Network for Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their Friends. 

Gerry Caplan,  organizer of "Remember Rwanda Initiative." 

Carole Anne Reed, University of Toronto, Canada 

Hedi Fried, Psychologist, Stockholm Jewish Community, Director of Cafˇ 84,  Stockholm, Sweden. 

Lorna Miller 

Chris Mato Nunpa 

Irfanka Pasagic, Tuzlanska Amica, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 

6. When Protection Fails: Surviving Srebrenica and the Aftermath 

Convener: Yael Danieli, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their  Children, NY, NY. 

Irfanka Pasagic, Tozlanska Amica, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Elizabeth Neuffer, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, USA.  
Author of The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda. 

Jos M. P. Weerts, Centre for Expertise and Research of the National Institute for Veterans, the Netherlands. 

Discussant: Yael Danieli 

7. Proving the intent element of genocide in international prosecutions. 

Convener: Suzanne L. Schairer 

Torunn Salmonsen, "Proving the intent of an accomplice to commit genocide." 

Suzanne Schairer, "Using pattern evidence of the destruction of cultural property to prove the intent element of genocide." 

Susana Sacouto, "Sexual violence and the intent to commit genocide." 

8. Psychological Perspectives on Genocide 

Convener: James Waller, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 

Linda Woolf, "An interactive contextual psychosocial model of genocide." 

James E. Waller, "Becoming evil: How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing." 

Israel Charny, "Acknowledging and transcending the dark sides of our human nature-such as power, dehumanization, persecution, and sacrificing-with renewed commitments to the protection of human life." 

Discussant: Herbert Hirsch 

9. Reparations to Victims of Genocide and Other Gross Violations of  Human Rights. Convener: Sam Garkawe 

Michael Bazyler, "Using American courts to respond to genocide:  The lessons  learned from Holocaust restitution litigation." 

Sam Garkawe,  "What makes governments pay up? State funded reparations schemes for victims of gross violations of human rights." 

Paul Hoffman, "Litigating genocide and crimes against humanity in US courts." 

10.International Regimes and Genocide: Legal and Moral Issues 

Conveners and discussants: Maryann Cusimano Love and Louis Klarevas 

Louis Klarevas, "American cooperation with international tribunals." 

Gregory P. Noone, "Proving a 'partial' genocide in a judicial forum." 

Paolo Tripodi and George Lucas, "Genocide, international regimes, and  humanitarian intervention." 

Maryann Cusimano Love and Richard Love, "Genocide and the ICC: Legal and  moral considerations." 

11.Comparative and Regional Perspectives of German Genocide Perpetrators in  Wilhelmine Southwest Africa and Nazi Occupied Eastern Europe. 

Convener: Wendy Lower 

Wendy Lower, "German perpetrators of genocide in Southwest Africa  (1904-1907) and Ukraine (1941-1944): A comparative view from below." 

Michael Imort, "'A certain depopulation is very much desired.'  German foresters and the genocide in Eastern Europe, 1939-1945." 

Alexander Prusin, "The Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Kiev, 1941-1943:  The role of the local SS, police and army branches." 

Erich Haberer, "History and justice: Judicial investigations of genocide perpetrated by German district officials and police in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944)." 

Jurgen Matthaeus, "Us and them-Historiographic images of Holocaust perpetrators." 

12. Genocide, Reparations and the Forced Removal of Indigenous Children from  their Families in Australia.   Convener: Chris Cunneen 

Chris Cunneen, "The limitations of litigation in responding to gross violations of human rights." 

Jason Field, "Indigenous peoples and genocide in Australia: Historical experiences, contemporary responses." 

Cleonie Quayle, "When the law in incapable of providing justice to indigenous  people." 

Colin Tatz, "Genocide and Australia's stolen generations." 

13. Genocide in Former Yugoslavia? 

Convener: Eric Markusen 

Moderator: Harald Runblom 

Henry Huttenbach, "Traditional goals, radical means: The genocide factor  in the Yugoslav wars of dismemberment." 

Eric Markusen, "Did genocide occur in Bosnia and Hercegovina? A critical  application of Helen Fein's paradigm for distinguishing genocide from other crimes." 

Martin Mennecke, "The question of genocide: Kosovo, 1999." 

Discussant: Helen Fein 

14. Teaching about Genocide: Challenges and Opportunities 

Convener: Oliver Griffen 

Frank Chalk 

Oliver Griffen, "Teaching genocide in a homogenous environment." 

Rubina Peroomian, Why teach and how to teach the Armenian genocide: Problems, challenges and accomplishments." 

Rene Lemarchand 

Linda Woolf, "Integration of genocide education across the undergraduate  and  psychology curricula." 

Discussant: Joyce Apsel 

15. Scientific Inquiry and Distant Voices: A Public Health Approach to Genocide Prevention 

Convener: Reva N. Adler 

Moderator: Eric B. Larson 

James Smith, "Genocide: A major threat to global health in the  21st century." 

Paul Fishman, "the Health economics of genocide: Direct costs and lost opportunities." 

Reva N. Adler, "Genocide prevention and public health: The health we are promoting." 

16. Genocide in Ethiopia 

Convener: Trevor Trueman 

Mohammed Hassen Ali, "Cultural genocide in Ethiopia." 

Mekuria Bulcha, "Genocide by slavery and colonialism." 

Seyoum Hameso, "Economic genocide in Ethiopia." 

Representative from Ogaden Human Rights Committee,  "Genocidal policies in  Ogaden." 

Trevor Trueman, "Is genocide in Ethiopia preventable?" 

17. The need for a UN Genocide Prevention Focal Point (GPFP) 

Convener: Bernie Hamilton 

Peter Hall 

Greg Stanton 

Bernie Hamilton 

18. The role of 'bystander' and 'accomplice' states and organizations in the Rwanda genocide of 1994.  Convener: Chiseche Mibenge 

Panel members to be announced. 

19. Human rights and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Convener: Smail Cekic 

Mustafa Imamovic, "Policy of human rights and genocide." 

Smail Cekic, "Genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995." 

Muharem Kreso, "The international community and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina." 

Becir Macic, "Genocide operations in the war against Bosnia and Herzegovina." 

Ismet Dizdarevic, "Psychosocial dimensions of genocide in Bosnia and  Herzegovina." 

20.Recent scholarship on Raphael Lemkin 

Convener: Jim Fussell 

Jim Fussell, "Lemkin at Nuremberg." 

Anton Weiss-Wendt, "Raphael Lemkin and the concept of 'Soviet genocide'." 

Steven L. Jacobs, "Lemkin and the Armenian genocide." 

Discussant: Jerry Fowler 

Presenters 

Odu Abiola, "Peace building and conflict resolution as a process of putting an end to terrorism, genocide and human rights abuse." 
Graduate student, Humanitarian and Refugee Studies, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Dabye2000@yahoo.com 

Lanfranco Aceti, "Digital horror: Is it real?"
Researcher, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK. L.Aceti1@csm.linst.ac.uk 

Reva N. Adler, Convener, panel #15 and presenter, "Genocide prevention and  public health: The health we are promoting." Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada rnadler@interchange.ubc.ca 

Aram Adjemian (with Vartkes S. Dolabjian), "The portrayal of the Armenian genocide in major encyclopedias." Executive Assistant, Armenian National Committee of Canada. aadjemi@hotmail.com 

Mohammed Hassen Ali, "Cultural genocide in Ethiopia." [panel #16]
Associate Professor, History Dept., Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 

Alex Alvarez, "Militias and other paramilitary organizations as perpetrators of genocide." Professor and Director, The Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Alex.alvarez@nau.edu 

Joyce Apsel, discussant, panel #14. President of IAGS, General Studies program, NYU, and Director, RightsWorks, NY, USA. Jaa5@nyu.edu 

Roberta Arnold, "The Mens Rea of Genocide Under the ICC Statute,"
PhD at the Public Law Department, University of Bern, Switzerland. Roberta.Arnold@oefre.unibe.ch

Yair Auron, "The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide." 
Associate Professor, Open University and Seminar Hakibbutzim, Israel. Yairau@oumail.openu.ac.il

Peter Balakian, "The Impact of the Abdul Hamid Massacres of the Armenians on American Culture of the 1890s." Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Colgate University, USA. Pbalakian@mail.colgate.edu 

Lea Balint, Director, Dept. of Children with Lost Identity, The Ghetto Fighters House, Israel [panel #5/plenary #3] Lebalint@netvision.net.il 

Paul R. Bartrop, "Assuming responsibility: The Srebrenica massacre and the resignation of the Dutch government, 16 April, 2002." Fellow, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia pbartrop@hotmail.com 

Steven K. Baum, "Hate: A Developmental Perspective," [psychology of genocide] Psychologist, Mercy Memorial Hospital, Monroe, MI, USA. Baum@jet2.net 

Michael J. Bazyler, "Using American courts to respond to genocide: The lessons learned from Holocaust restitution litigation." [panel #9] Professor of Law, Whittier Law School, California, USA. bazyler@aol.com 

Don Beachler, "The forgotten genocide? The case of Bangladesh." 
Instructor and Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY Beachler@ithaca.edu 

Alan Berger, "The landscape of memory: Ritual pilgrimage to Europe by sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors." Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University, USA. aberger@fau.edu 


Rupen Boyadjian, (with Dominik Schaller), "Herero, Nama and San under German colonial rule: Development of the German decision making towards genocide, contemporary reception and denial." Affiliation: rboyan@bluewin.ch 

William J. Brustein, "The Media and Genocide: The Negative Stereotyping of Jews in French Newspapers Preceding the Holocaust." Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the University Center for International Studies, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Brustein@ucis.pitt.edu 

Mekuria Bulcha, "Genocide by slavery and colonialism." [panel #16].
Associate Professor, Sociology Dept., Uppsala, University, Sweden.

Mervin Butovsky (with Kurt Jonassohn), "The publication of unpublished Holocaust survivor memoirs." 

David Stephen Calonne, "Children of the Genocide: Armenian History and the Literary Imagination." Independent scholar, author of William Saroyan: My Real Work  is Beginning.  Davecal@hotmail.com 

Gerry Caplan,  "Remembering Rwanda."[panel #5/plenary #3]
Organizer, "Remembering Rwanda" initiative Ontario, Canada.  caplang@rogers.com 

Smail Cekic, Convener, panel #19, and presenter,"Genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995." 
Professor, Law faculty of Political Sciences, Sarajevo and Director of the Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law in Sarajevo. Institut_zl@hotmail.com 

Frank Chalk, "British and American radio broadcasting to Hungary in 1944: Rescue, resistance and the clash of priorities." Former President of IAGS, Professor, Department of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. drfrank@alcor.concordia.ca 

Israel W. Charny, 1."Making Constructive Use of the High Recognition  Factor of Lemkin's Term'Genocide' in a Comparative Classification of Multiple Types of Genocide."[panel #4] 2. "Acknowledging and transcending the dark sides of our human nature-Such as power, dehumanization, persecution, and sacrificing-with renewed commitments to the protection of human life." [panel #8] Professor, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, Editor-in-Chief Encyclopedia of Genocide. Encygeno@mail.com 

Kenneth Cmiel, "Lemkin's vision: Genocide versus human rights at  mid-century." 
Professor, Department of History University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Kcmiel@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu, Kenneth-cmiel@uiowa.edu 

Stephen Corry, "'Development' as destroyer: Cases from South America,  Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean." [panel #3] 
Director General, Survival International. sc@survival-international.org 

Chris Cunneen, "The limitations of litigation in responding to gross  violations of human rights." [convener and presenter, panel #12] 
Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney Law School,  Sydney, Australia chriscu@law.usyd.edu.au 

Thomas Cushman, "A critique of definitionalism in genocide studies."[panel #4]  
Professor, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA. Tcushman@wellesley.edu 

Vahakn Dadrian, "Children as Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case."
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Geneseo, and Director of Genocide Research, Zoryan Institute. Hynek@jps.net 

Yael Danieli, 1. Convener and presenter, panel #5/plenary 3: "Life after death: Rebuilding genocide survivors' lives: Challenges and opportunities" 2. Convener and discussant, panel #6. 
Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, Co-Pres., International Network for Holocaust and Genocide Survivors and their Friends, NY, USA. yaeld@aol.com 

Panayiotis Diamadis, "Asia Minor's stolen generations." 
Director, Christian Asia Minor Research Unit, AIHGS, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Panayiotis_d@today.com.au   

Romesh Diwan, (see Bethea above)  Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.  518-272-8873 

Ismet Dizdarevic, "Psychosocial dimensions of genocide in Bosnia  and Herzegovina," [Panel #19] 
Professor of psychology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo University, Sarajevo. Institute_zl@hotmail.com 

Margorie Housepian Dobkin, "Varieties of denial, 1916-2003: Turkey and  the Armenian genocide." Professor Emerita, Barnard College, NY, mdobkin@barnard.edu 

Vartkes S. Dolabjian (with Aram Adjemian), "The portrayal of the Armenian genocide in major encyclopedias." Independent Scholar, formerly at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 

Mark Drumbl, "Justice on the grass: The Promise of Gachacha for postgenocide Rwanda." Assistant Professor, Washington & Lee University, School of Law Drumblm@wlu.edu 

Tomislav Dulic, "Did the Ustashe commit genocide?"
Ph.D candidate, Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Centre for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Tomislav.dulic@multietn.uu.se 

William Ejalu, "African freedom fighters or terrorists/war criminals? How does international law solve this controversy." Ph.D candidate, Department of International Law, Eotvos Lorand University Faculty of Law and Political Science, Budapest, Hungary. Wejalu@yahoo.com 

Nigel Eltringham, "Rwanda: Grappling with definitions of ethnicity." Research Associate, Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS,  University of London, UK Nigel.eltringham@ntlworld.com 

Helen Fein, discussant, panel #13. Former President of IAGS, Director Institute for the Study of Genocide,  NY, NY. Helenfein@attbi.com 

Stephen Feinstein, "'Hell is naked before him and destruction has no covering': Artists and the Rwandan genocide, with special reflections on the work of Alfredo Jaar." Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Feins001@tc.umn.edu 

Jason Field, "Indigenous peoples and genocide in Australia: Historical experiences, contemporary responses." [panel #12] 
Research and Policy Coordinator, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, NSW, Australia. Jason.Field-2@uts.edu.au 

Paul Fishman, "The health economics of genocide: Direct costs and lost opportunities." [panel #15] Senior Economist, Centre for Health Studies, Group Health Co-operative Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. 
 
Jerry Fowler,  "A Good Man in Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide." [video] [Discussant panel#20] Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.  Jfowler@ushmm.org 

Hedi Fried, Panelist, Panel #5/ Plenary #3.
Psychologist, Stockholm Jewish Community, Director of Cafˇ 84, Stockholm, Sweden. Hedi.fried@telia.com 

Jim Fussell, Panel Convener and presenter, "Lemkin at Nuremberg: From scholar to advocate." [panel #20] Executive Director, Prevent Genocide International. jimfussell@preventgenocide.org 

Sam Garkawe, "What makes governments pay up? State-funded reparations schemes for victims of gross violations of human rights." [panel #9] Associate  Professor, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia sgarkawe@scu.edu.au 

Gerald Gahima, Plenary TBA. Attorney General of Rwanda, Kigali. 

Stacey Gibson, "Warning signs for genocide in the Ottoman Empire and post-colonial Rwanda." [tentative title]                                     
PhD candidate, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.  

Matthew Goldfeder, "Radical or banal? Evil and the case of the bystander." PhD candidate, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Msg4e@virginia.edu 

Joy Gordon, "The Security Council's sanctions on Iraq and their human cost: Are there grounds for a claim under the Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions?" Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA jgordon@fair1.fairfield.edu 

Oliver Griffin, "Teaching genocide in a homogenous environment."
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. Ogriffin@weber.edu 

Meher Grigorian, "Seeking retributive justice: Impediments to criminal accountability for perpetrators of genocide." PhD candidate, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and Director, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shalom College, Univ. of New South Wales. mgrigorian@ozemail.com.au 

Erich Haberer, "History and justice: Judicial investigations of genocide perpetrated by German district officials and police in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944)." [panel #11] Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada. ehaberer@wlu.ca 

Yan Hairong (with Barry Sautman), "Cultural genocide and Asian state peripheries." [panel #3] Princeton University. 

Peter Hall, "Genocide consequences and prevention: The lessons from Rwanda." Chair, Physicians for Human Rights-UK.  phall@gn.apc.org 

Thea Halo, "Killing by consent: The role of media in winning hearts and minds." Author, Not Even My Name: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America (NY: Picador, 2000) Theahalo@notevenmyname.com 


Seyoum Hameso, "Economic genocide in Ethiopia." [panel #16].
Economist, Editor of Sidama Concern, Ilford, UK.

Bernie Hamilton, Convener and presentor, panel # 17.
Chair ICEG and President, Leo Kuper Foundation Bernie@west-end.demon.co.uk

Anders Hansen, "The colonial bystander: A study of the British inability to counter the genocidal violence during the 1947 partition of India." Historian, University of Copenhagen, Denmark andersbhansen@hotmail.com 


Herbert Hirsch, 1."Genocide and terrorism: comparison, analysis and critique." 2. Discussant, panel #8.  Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA herbhirsch@yahoo.com 

Paul Hoffman, "Litigating genocide and crimes against humanity in US  courts." [panel #9] Attorney and Chair, International Executive Committee of Amnesty International 

Ethan J. Hollander, "Swords or Shields: Implementing and Subverting the Final Solution in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe." PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, USA. Ejhollan@ucsd.edu 

Richard G. Hovannisian. "Rewards and Pitfalls of Armenian Oral History-The UCLA Collection." [Panel #1] Professor, Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History,  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Hovannis@history.ucla.edu 

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, "A truth commission for Africa?"
Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. rhodah@mcmaster.ca/ hassmann@mwc.edu 

Philippe Huneman, "Denials of genocides." Researcher, l'Institut de'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (CNRS), Paris. huneman@wanadoo.fr 

Alexandra Hurst, "The operation of justice discourses within the courtrooms of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda." PhD candidate, University of Newcastle, UK alexhurst@mauimail.com 

Henry Huttenbach, 1. "In search of the genocidal: A tool for genocide prevention." 2.  "Traditional goals, radical means: The genocide factor in the Yugoslav wars of dismemberment." [panel #13] 
Professor of Russian and East European History, City College of New York, NY and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Genocide Research. huttenbach@aol.com 

Mustafa Imamovic, "Policy of human rights and genocide." [panel #19]
Professor, Law Faculty, Sarajevo University, Sarajevo.  Institut_zl@hotmail.com

Michael Imort, "'A certain depopulation is very much desired.'  German foresters and the genocide in Eastern Europe, 1939-1945." 
[panel #11] Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada mimort@wlu.ca 

Alan Jacobs, 1."The Lingering Effects of Genocide on the Reservation:  
A personal observation of the Blackfoot Indian reservation in Browning, Montana." [panel #2] 2. "Speculations on motivation for genocide." Editor, H-Genocide Listserve, Chicago, IL. ajacobs@mail.h-net.msu.edu/ ajacobs@bravenewweb.com 

Steven Leonard Jacobs, 1."Language Death and Cultural Destruction:  Reflections on a Little Discussed Aspect of Genocide." 2. "Lemkin and the Armenian genocide" [panel #20] Treasurer of IAGS, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Sjacobs@bama.ua.edu 

Kurt Jonassohn (with Mervin Butovsky), "The publication of unpublished  holocaust survivor memoirs." Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. kurtj@alcor.concordia.ca 

Suzanne Kaplan, "Children in the Holocaust and in Rwanda: Dealing  with affects and memory images in trauma and generational linking." Psychoanalyst and Researcher, Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden. kaplanbohm@swipnet.se 

Myrna Karamanoukian, "The Ottoman Turkish genocide of the Armenians and issues of memory." M.Sc Political Science, Teacher, Sourp Hagop Armenian School, Montreal, Canada Myrmaid24@hotmail.com 

Mujeeb R. Khan, "Tyranny, the struggle for recognition, and genocide: Towards a theory of the Summum Malum." Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, DePaul University, Chicago, IL. Mujkhan5@yahoo.com 

Ben Kiernan, "Native Americans and Australian Aborigines: A study in comparative indigenous genocides." [panel #3] A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Ben.kiernan@yale.edu; magpie@pantheon.yale.edu 

Dong-Choon Kim, "Forgotten war, forgotten massacres: The Korean War massacres and long denial by Cold War politics." Professor of sociology, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, Korea, and visiting scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. kimdc@umich.edu 

Louis Klarevas, "American cooperation with international tribunals."  
[panel #10] Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK l.j.klarevas@lse.ac.uk 

Amelia Klein, "'Don't tell anyone:' The effect of the Holocaust on Sydney child survivors." Director, AIHGS, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. pixush@hotmail.com 

Richard Kloian, "The Armenian Genocide and the American Press-Reports from the Killing Fields: What Can They Tell Us? A Case Study" 
Director, Armenian Genocide Resource Center, Richmond, CA, USA Hynek@jps.net

Rebecca Knuth, "Libricide: The shadow phenomenon."
Associate Professor, Library & Information Science Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HA. knuth@hawaii.edu 

Joel Kotek, "Les caricatures de la haine: Le retour de l'antisemitisme graphique depuis la seconde intifada." Centre d'Etudies Juives Contemporaine, Paris, FR. Joel.kotek@chello.be 

Jacques Kornberg, TBA
Professor of History, Emeritus,  The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. JacquesK@istar.ca 

Muharem Kreso, "The international community and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina." [panel #19] Historian, Institute for Research on Crimes against Humanity and International Law, Sarajevo. Institut_zl@hotmail.com 

Eric B. Larson, Moderator, Panel #15.
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  

Mary Rose Leacy, 1."Occupation economics: The financing of genocide, the role of predatory international finance." Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Political Science and Economics, Wagner College, NY, NY mleacy@wagner.edu 

Rene Lemarchand, 1."Myth-Making and the Logic of Mass-Murder: Rwanda, Cambodia, and Bosnia." 2. Panel #14 TBA Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.  Renelemar@aol.com 

Brian D. Lepard, "Am I my brother's keeper? An inquiry into legal and ethical obligations to intervene militarily to prevent genocide." 
Associate Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law. blepard@unlserve.unl.edu 

Mark Levene, "Historiography, States, Frontiers, and Indigenous Peoples." [panel #3] Reader in Comparative History in the History Department and at the Parkes Centre for Jewish-non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK. Ml1@soton.ac.uk 

Ruth Linn, "Escaping Auschwitz: Holocaust Education and the Politics of Staging," Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel Rlinn@construct.haifa.ac.il 

Lew Livesay, "Genocidal beliefs in recent American and Irish novels depicting terrorism." Instructor, Department of English, Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ. Lew_Livesay@hotmail.com 

Staffan Lofving, "Genocide in Guatemala? Forget about it!"
Research Fellow, Centre for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Staffan.Lofving@antro.uu.se 

Maryann Cusimano Love, (and Richard Love),  Convener and presenter, "Genocide and the ICC: Legal and moral considerations." [panel #10] Associate Professor, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA mcusimanolove@erols.com 

Richard Love, "Genocide and the ICC: Legal and moral considerations." [panel #10] Professor, National Defense University, Washington, DC. LoveR@ndu.edu 

Wendy Lower, "German perpetrators of genocide in Southwest Africa (1904-1907) and Ukraine (1941-1944): A comparative view from below." [panel #11] Director, Visiting Scholars Program, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Wlower@ushmm.org 

George Lucas (with Paolo Tripodi), "Genocide, international regimes and humanitarian intervention." [panel #10] Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Leadership, ethics & Law, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. grlucas@usna.edu 

Becir Macic, "Genocide operations in the war against  Bosnia and Herzegovina" [panel #19]. Researcher, Institute for Research on Crimes against Humanity and International Law in Sarajevo. Institute_zl@hotmail.com  (Institute_zl@hotmail.com) 

Ben Madley, "Patterns of frontier genocide, 1903-1910: The aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia." 
[panel #2] PhD candidate, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Benjamin.madley@yale.edu 

Theophanis Malkidis, "Aspects of the genocide of Pontian Greeks (Greeks of the Black Sea) 1916-1923." Lecturer, Democritus University, Thrace, Greece fmalkidis@yahoo.com 

Erik Markusen, 1. Co-convener, panels #2 and 3. 2.Moderator, panel #2. 3. Discussant, panel #4. 4. Convener, panel #13 5.  Presenter, "Did genocide occur in Bosnia and Hercegovina? A critical application of Helen Fein's paradigm for distinguishing genocide from other crimes." [panel #13] Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Southwest State University and Research 
Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Markusen@southwest.msus.edu; markusen@dchf.dk 

Jurgen Matthaus, "Us and them-Historiographic images of Holocaust perpetrators." [panel #11] Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Matthaeus-berlin@t-online.de 

Robert Melson, TBA
First VP of IAGS, Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN.  Melson@polsci.purdue.edu 

Linda Melvern, "The media and the Rwandan genocide."
Honorary Fellow, Dept. of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales. Linda@melvern.co.uk 

Martin Mennecke, "The question of genocide: Kosovo, 1999." [panel#13]
Ph.D fellow (law), Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Institute of International Studies, Denmark. mmennecke@dchf.dk 

Chiseche Mibenge, Convener, Panel #18. Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht, the Netherlands. chiseche@yahoo.com 

Manus I. Midlarsky and Elizabeth R. Midlarsky, 1. "Understanding Himmler:  Altruistic Punishment and Genocide" 2. "Echoes of Genocide: Trauma and Ethnic Identity Among European Immigrants." 
Manus I. Midlarsky, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA midlarsk@rci.rutgers.edu/ Elizabeth R. Midlarsky Teachers College, Columbia University Em142@columbia.edu 

William F.S. Miles, "Third World Views of the Holocaust, "(video).
Professor, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. b.miles@neu.edu 

Donald Miller and Lorna T. Miller, "The Armenian and Rwandan Genocides:  Comparisons of Two Oral History Projects with Survivors" [Panel #1]. Donald E. Miller, Professor of Religion and Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California. Lorna Touryan Miller, Director of the Office of Creative Programs, All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, CA Demiller@usc.edu 

Charles K. Mironko, "Two Genocides in Burundi: What's in a Name?"  
Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 

James Fraser Moore, "The accountability of religion in genocide." 
Professor, Dept. of Theology, Valparaiso, IN. Jimus67809@aol.com 

Claudia Mora, "Interpreting and improving the legal definition of the Genocide Convention." [tentative title] M.S. Dublin City University. vittocla@yahoo.com 

Elizabeth Neuffer, panelist, panel # 6 The Boston Globe, Boston, MA. neuffer@compuserve.com 

Francois Ngarambe, Co-convener, Panel #5/Plenary #3. President, IBUKA, Rwanda. fxavier@rwanda1.com 

Raphael Nkaka, "The role of the mass media in the Rwandan genocide."  [tentative title] National University of Rwanda. R_nkaka@yahoo.fr 

Gregory P. Noone, "Proving a 'partial' genocide in a judicial forum."  [panel #10] Program Officer, U. S. Institute of Peace. gnoone@usip.org 

Chris Mato Nunpa, 1. Co-Convener, panels #2 and 3.
2. Moderator, panel #2. 3. Presenter, "Genocide, the Bible, and the Indigenous Peoples of the United States." [panel #2] 4. Participant, panel #5 Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and Dakota Studies, Southwest State University, MN. matonunpa@kilowatt.net 

Anthony Oberschall, "Collective Violence and  Peace Processes." 
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.   Tonob@email.unc.edu 

Irfanka Pasagic, panelist, panel #5/plenary #3 and panel #6.
M.D., Tozlanska Amica, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  ipasagic@inet.ba

Rubina Peroomian, 1."To Build a Normal Life Beyond a Traumatic Past: The Case of the Survivors of the Smyrna Tragedy"[panel #1] 2. 
 
"Why teach and how to teach the Armenian genocide:  Problems, challenges and accomplishments." [panel #14] Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Rubinap@aol.com 

Keith Pomakoy, Sr., "Rush to Rescue, Rush to Disaster: American  Intervention in the Spanish Extermination of Cubans." PhD candidate, Dept. of History, University of Albany, Albany, NY. Pomakkei@hvcc.edu 

Michael Popich, "The obligation and justification for intervention in  ongoing genocide." [tentative title] Professor, Philosophy and Religion Program, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT. Mpopich@westminstercollege.edu 

Jack Porter, "Towards a sociology and history of peace."
Adjunct lecturer in sociology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell,  Lowell, MA. jacknusan@earthlink.net 

Alexander Prusin, "The Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Kiev, 1941-1943:  The role of the local SS, police and army branches." Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM. aprusin@nmt.edu 

Cleonie Quayle, "When the law is incapable of providing justice to indigenous people." [panel #12] Coordinator, National Indigenous Legal Studies Diploma, Tranby Aboriginal College, Australia cleonie@tranby.com.au 

Gila Ramras-Rauch, "Facing the Holocaust: The second literary generation." Weinstein Professor of Jewish Literature, Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA. Ramras_rauch@hotmail.com  

Carole Anne Reed, University of Toronto, Canada (panel 5) 

Karen Riechert, "Disputing international legal standards: A comparative historical study." Independent scholar, Washington, D.C.. Kriechert@yahoo.de 

Francois Regis Rukundakuvuga, "Group Behavior and Gachacha" (Rwanda)
Councilor, Rwandan Supreme Court, Kigali, Rwanda. Fregis68@yahoo.fr 

Harald Runblom, Moderator, Panel #13. Director, Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sweden. Harald.runblom@multietn.uu.se 

Susana Sacouto, "Sexual violence and the intent to commit genocide." [panel #7] Director of Legal Services, Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. (WEAVE), Washington, D.C., USA  

Torunn Salmonsen, "Proving the intent of an accomplice to commit genocide." [panel #7] Researcher, international criminal law, Oslo, Norway 

Shimon T. Samuels, "From Holocaust to [h]olocausts-Semantic Theft and  Antisemitism in the United Nations Arena." Director, International Liaison, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris 101752.2126@compuserve.com 

Victoria Sanford, "Guatemala army campaigns of genocide."
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA. vdlsanford@aol.com 

Barry Sautman (with Yan Hairong), "Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries." [panel #3] Associate Professor in the Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. sobarrys@ust.uk 

William A. Schabas, TBA. Professor, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights and Chair in Human Rights Law at the National University, Galway, Ireland. Wschabas@nuigalway.ie 

Suzanne Schairer, "Using pattern evidence of the destruction of cultural property to prove the intent element of genocide." 
[Convener and presenter, panel # 7] Assistant State Public Defender, Office of State Public Defender, State of Wisconsin. schairerite@earthlink.net 

Dominik Schaller (with Rupen Boyadjian), "Herero, Nama and San under German colonial rule: Development of the German decision making towards genocide, contemporary reception and denial." rickscafe@bluemail.ch 

James Schechter, "Supposedly Lost and Supposedly Found: Sudanese Youth in an UNHCR Camp." PhD candidate, Cultural Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder. James.schechter@colorado.edu 

Christian Scherrer, 
1."Responses to Total Genocide: Gachacha Jurisdiction in Rwanda and the Failure of the ICTR."  2. "The Rwanda Genocide-in-Whole in Comparative Perspective" 
Professor, Hiroshima University and Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima, Japan. Scherrer@peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp,    c.scherrer@planet.nl 

Jacques Semelin, "Was There a Genocide in Bosnia?" 
Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Jsemelin@magic.fr 

Thomas W. Simon, "Evil Incorporated: Organized Violence" 
Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Northern Colorado,  Greeley, CO. Twsimon@ilstu.edu thomas.simon@unco.edu 

Helene J. Sinnreich, "...And we eat as on Yom Kippur: Food fantasy in the Ghetto." PhD candidate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, and Lecturer, University of Lodz, Poland Another_idea@hotmail.com

Robert Skloot, "A Theatre of Genocide: Texts and Points of View."
Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. rskloot@facstaff.wisc.edu 

Alyson Smith, "ICTR, rape and genocide." MSc, London School of Economics. Alyson.smith-alumni@lse.ac.uk 

James Smith, "Genocide: A major threat to global health in the 21st century."[panel #15] Executive Director, Aegis Trust, Laxton, Nottinghamshire, UK 

Roger W. Smith, TBA. Former President of IAGS, Professor, College of William and Mary, Virginina. Theseus51@MSN.com 

Jeannette Smyth, "The camp economy: Juvenilization, feminization and sexualization of camp stress." Independent Scholar, Washington, DC. smythj@earthlink.net 

Gregory Stanton, Panel #17. Secretary of the ICEG. gstanton@genocidewatch.org 

Peter Steenberg-Ornemark, "Danish initiatives to prevent genocide: A preliminary assessment." Research Assistant, Danish Centre of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark. Petersteenberg_dk@hotmail.com 

Barbara Strassberg. "On a global declaration of human accountability." Professor, Department of Sociology, Aurora University, Aurora, IL. Bstrass@aol.com 

Colin Tatz, 1. "Genocide and Australia's Stolen Generations." [panel #12]
2. "Can Good Colonists Commit Genocide? The Australian Case," [panel #2]
Second VP of IAGS, Adjunct Professor of Politics, Macquarie University,  Director, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sydney, Australia. Ctatz@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au 

Henry Theriault, "Justice or peace? The meanings, potentials and pitfalls of Armenian-Turkish dialogue." Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA. htheriault@worcester.edu 

John Torpey, "The past as future: Aporias of reparations politics."
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and  Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. torpey@interchange.ubc.ca 

Paolo Tripodi, "Genocide, international regimes, and humanitarian  intervention." [panel #10] Ethics Fellow, Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, and Assistant Professor, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. tripodi@usna.edu 

Trevor Trueman, Convener, panel #16 and presenter, "Is genocide in Ethiopia preventable?" Chair, Oromia Support Group, Malvern, Worcs, UK Oromiasg@waitrose.com 

Kerry Turcotte, "Toward an interpretive theory of genocide perpetration."
PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. siochain@rogers.com 

Ernesto Verdeja, "Justice and political violence: Evaluating the viability of truth commissions and tribunals after mass atrocity." PhD candidate, New School University, NY. Ven8202@mindspring.com 

Philip Verwimp, "Genocide and the Theory of Collective Action"
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and affiliated research fellow Genocide Studies Program, Yale University. Philip.Verwimp@econ.kuleuven.ac.be 

James E. Waller, "Becoming evil: How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing." [Convener and presentor, panel #8]. Edward B. Lindaman Chair and Professor of Psychology, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA, USA. jwaller@whitworth.edu 

Jos Weerts, panelist, panel #6.
M.D., Veterans Institute, Doorn, The Netherlands  jweerts@knmg.nl

Anton Weiss-Wendt, "Raphael Lemkin and the concept of 'Soviet genocide'."  [panel #20] PhD candidate, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. wendt@brandeis.edu 

Eric D. Weitz, "Versailles-Sevres-Lausanne: The post-World War I settlements and twentieth-century genocides." Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Weitz004@tc.umn.edu 

Howard Wolpe, TBA, Plenary. Former Congressman from Michigan and Special Presidential Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Africa Project Consulting Director, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. Wolpehe@wwic.si.edu 

Linda Woolf, 1. "An interactive contextual psychosocial model of genocide."  [panel #8] 2. "Integration of genocide education across the undergraduate and psychology curricula." [panel #14] Coordinator, Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights, Webster University, St. Louis, MO. woolflm@webster.edu 

Jennifer Zoltanski, "The construction of Rape as a Crime Against Humanity: Recognition and Legitimation within the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia." PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Zoltan@brandeis.edu