The International Association of Genocide Scholars Fourth International Biennial Conference Program

The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 9-12 June 2001

Note: E-Mail Addresses of authors you may wish to contact for abstracts or papers are noted after their paper

Saturday, June 9

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


Sunday, June 10
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
Chair and Discussant: Helen Fein  

Levene, Mark. Department of History, University of Warwick, UK  "A Dissenting Voice, or How Current Assumptions of Deterring and Preventing Genocide May Be Looking At the Problem Through the Wrong End of the Telescope." MLEVENE@SOTON.AC.UK

Hirsch, Herbert. Department of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, US. "Building A Movement to Stop Genocide." HERBHIRSCH@YAHOO.COM

Huttenbach, Henry. Department of History, City University of New York, US and Journal of Genocide Research. "Separating Preventable from Unpreventable Genocide: Towards A Methodology of Classification." HUTTENBACH@AOL.COM

Heidenrich, John G. Senior Analyst for Genocide and Instability Warning Issues, Open Source Solutions (OSS), Inc., US "American Conservatives and Humanitarian Intervention." JOHNHEIDEN@AOL.COM 

 

11:00-11:15 A.M. Coffee break
11:15-12:30 A.M. Panel 2: Definition and Policy
Chair and
Discussant: William Schabas

Fein, Helen. Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Genocide; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US, and Past President, Association of Genocide Scholars. "Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: Definitional Evasion, Fog, Morass or Opportunity?" HELENFEIN@MEDIAONE.NET 

Theriault, Henry. Department of Philosophy ,Worcester State College, and Center for Holocaust Studies, Clark University, US. "The Prevention and Punishment of Genocide: Toward A Flexible Definition of the Act."
HTHERIAULT@WORCESTER.EDU 

 

12:30-2:00 P.M. AGS Luncheon and Presentation. Ervin Staub (Department of Psychology, U. of Mass., Amherst, US), "Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda"  ESTAUB@PSYCH.UMASS.EDU 

 

2:00-3:30 P.M. Panel 3: The Pros and Cons of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Chair and Discussant: Alex Alvarez

Sanford, Victoria. Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, US. "Coming to Terms with Genocide in Guatemala: The Chilling Effect of Army Impunity and Local Prosecution." VICTORIASANFORD.13@ND.EDU 

Snyman, Johan. Department of Philosophy, Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa. "The Politics of Memory, Truth Commissions and Crimes Against Humanity."
JLS@LW.RAU.AC.ZA 

Panel 4: Rwanda: Mass Participation in Killing and Western Indifference
Chair and Discussant: Frank Chalk  

Straus, Scott. Doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, US. "Institutions, Ideology and War: Towards A Theory of Participatory Genocide in Rwanda." SSTRAUS@SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU 

Mironko, Charles K. Doctoral candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, US. "Igitero (Mob Culture) during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide." CHARLES.MIRONKO@YALE.EDU 

Wagner, Michele. Department of History, University of Minnesota, US. "Tumbling Down the 'Slippery Slope': From Collective Politics to Collective Violence in Nyakizu Commune, Southern Rwanda." MDWAGNER@UMN.EDU 

Kotek, Joel. Free University of Brussels, Belgium; Ecole superieure de Journalisme of Lille. "The Lesson of Rwanda, A Genocide That Could Have Been Prevented." JOEL.KOTEK@TVD.BE 

Panel 5: Genocide and the Oromo People
Chair and Discussant: Kurt Jonassohn  

Hassen, Mohammed. Department of History, Georgia State University, US. "Is Genocide Against the Oromo People Possible in Ethiopia?" HISMHA@LANGATE.GSU.EDU

Trueman, Trevor. M.D. in Internal Medicine and Family Practice; Chair, Oromia Support Group, UK. "Genocide Against the Oromo People in Ethiopia? Western Influence." TREVTRUERMAN@CS.COM 

 

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.
Discussant: Henry Theriault

Apsel, Joyce. Director, Rights Works; New York University, US. "Official Denial: The Armenian Genocide, Genocide Studies and the Internet." JOYCEAPSEL@HOTMAIL.COM 

Dolabjian, Vartkes. Independent researcher, Montreal, Canada. "The Armenian Genocide in the Encyclopedia Britannica." Address: 25 Linton Avenue, Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec H9B 1P2, Canada

Peroomian, Rubina. Associate Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, US. "The Truth of the Armenian Genocide in Edgar Hilsenrath's Fiction." RUBINAPA@AOL.COM 

Kimura, Akio. Doctoral candidate, English Literature, Drew University, US. "Genocide and the Modern Mind: Intention and Structure." AKIMURA@DREW.EDU 

Panel 7: Building an International Campaign to Prevent and Punish Genocide
Gregory Stanton, Convener.
Discussant: Herbert Hirsch

Stanton, Gregory H. Director, Genocide Watch and Coordinator, International Campaign to End Genocide. "Genocide Watch: Coordinating the International Campaign to End Genocide." GREGORYHSTANTON@AOL.COM 

Fussell, James. Education Director, Prevent Genocide International, US. "Group Classifications on National Identity Cards as a Facilitating Factor in Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Massive Violations of Human Rights." JIMFUSSELL@PREVENTGENOCIDE.ORG 

Cook, Susan E. Director, Cambodia Genocide Program, Yale University, US. "Prosecuting Genocide in Cambodia: The Cambodia Genocide Program's Contributions." SUSANCOOK@YALE.EDU 

 

7:00-9:00 P.M. Reception and Banquet. Keynote speech, Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, US: "Reflections on Genocide and the Ad Hoc Tribunals." GABRIELLE_MCDONALD@FMI.COM 


Monday, June 11
8:30-10:00 A.M. Panel 8: The Function of Cruelty
Chair and Discussant: Roger Smith

Alvarez, Alex. Department of Criminal Justice. Northern Arizona University, US. "Cruelty in the Camps." ALEX.ALVAREZ@NAU.EDU 

Jonassohn, Kurt. Department of Sociology and Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University, Canada. "The Culture of Brutality." KURTJ@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA 

Turcotte, Kerry. Doctoral student in Sociology, McMaster University, Canada. "Independent Torture or Ordinary Crime? A Rethinking of Torture Scholarship in Light of Somalia, 1993." TURCOTK@MCMASTER.CA 

 

10:00-10:15 A.M. Coffee Break
10:15-11:45 A.M. Panel 9: Yugoslavia
Discussant: Anthony Oberschall

Besirevic Regan, Jasmina. Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Yale University, US. "What Happened in Banja Luka? The Stories of Bosnian Muslim Refugees." JASMINA.BESIREVIC@YALE.EDU 

Georgakis, Angelo. Doctoral candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota, US. "The Reactions of Serbs in Serbia to the Charge of Genocide." GEOROO90@TC.UMN.EDU 

Panel 10: The Range of Shoah Remembrance: From Concentration Camp to Cybertourism.
William Miles, Convener.
Discussant: Berel Lang.

Miles, William. Department of Political Science and Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, Northeastern University, US. "Dark and 'Darker' Tourism." B.MILES@NUNET.NEU.EDU 

Feinstein, Stephen. Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, US. "Remembering or Repelling? Reflections on Misguided Artistic and Monument Projects about the Holocaust." FEINS001@TC.UMN.EDU 

Huttenbach, Henry. Department of History, City University of New York, US. "A Tale of Four Cities: Berlin, Jerusalem, Washington, New York." HUTTENBACH@AOL.COM 

Panel 11: Children, Gender and Genocide
Chair and Discussant: Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

Smith, Roger. Department of Government, College of William & Mary, US; Past President, Association of Genocide Scholars. "Children As Victim-Perpetrators of Genocide: A Comparative Study." RWSMIT@FACSTAFF.WM.EDU 

Jones, Adam. International Studies, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico. "Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention: Incorporating the Gender Variable." ADAM.JONES@CIDE.EDU 

Carpenter, R. Charli. Doctoral student, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, US. "Beyond Gendercide: Operationalizing Gender in Comparative Genocide Studies." ROCARPEN@DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU 

 

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
Chair and Discussant: Eric Weitz

Lang, Berel. Humanities, Trinity College, US. "The Nazi as Criminal: Inside and Outside the Genocide." BEREL.LANG@TRINCOLL.EDU 

Charny, Israel. Executive Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, Israel. "A Genocide Scholar Returns to His Home Discipline: What Does the Study of Genocide Teach Us About Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind." ENCYGENO@MAIL.COM 

Panel 13: Avoiders and Deniers: Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia and East Timor
Chair and Discussant: Gregory Stanton  

Cribb, Robert. Department of History, University of Queensland, Australia. "Legacies of Fear: Impacts of the 1965-66 Killings on Recent Indonesian Politics." RCRIBB@HOTMAIL.COM 

Tatz, Colin. Director, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Australia. "The Denial of Black Armband History." CTATZ@LAUREL.OCS.MQ.EDU.AU 

Kiernan, Ben. Department of History and Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, US. "High-Stakes Controversies Over Genocides in Small Countries." BEN.KIERNAN@YALE.EDU

Panel 14: Kosovo and Macedonians in Greece
Chair and Discussant: Mark Levene

Semelin, Jacques. CNRS, Paris, and Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France. "Some 'Lessons' from Kosovo: How Mass Crime Was Limited." JSEMELIN@MAGIC.FR 

Riemer, Neal. Department of Political Science, Drew University, US. "Just Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Long-Range Success: Kosovo." NRIEMER@AOL.COM 

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." ORTAK@ASI.NET.MK

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, US; Research Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark MARKUSEN@SSU.SOUTHWEST.MSUS.ED 

Charny, Israel. Executive Director, The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, Israel. ENCYGENO@MAIL.COM 

Feinstein, Stephen. Director, University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, US. FEINS001@TC.UMN.EDU 

Runblom, Harald. Director, Uppsala Program for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sweden. HARALD.RUNBLOM@MULTIETHN.UU.SE 

Tatz, Colin. Director, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Australia. CTATZ@LAUREL.OCS.MQ.EDU.AU

Rapporteur: Torben Jorgensen, Research Assistant, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Panel 16: Parting the Curtains on Hidden Histories, Influences and Patterns
Chair and Discussant: Scott Straus

Robins, Nicholas. Visiting Scholar, Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, US. "Genocide and the Great Rebellion of 1780-1782 in Peru and Upper Peru." NROBINS@DUKE.EDU 

Jonassohn, Kurt. Department of Sociology and Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University, Canada. "On A Neglected Aspect of Western Racism." KURTJ@ALCOR.CONCORDIA.CA 

Jacobs, Rabbi Steven L. Judaic Studies, University of Alabama, US. "Raphael Lemkin and the Journey to Genocide." SJACOBS@BAMA.UA.EDU 

Eells, Jonathan. Doctoral student, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, US. "On the Fence-Both Sides: Diaspora Politics." EELS@UCLA.EDU 

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
Chair: Jessica Wiederhorn

Wiederhorn, Jessica. Senior Associate for Academic Relations, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, US. "Memories of the Sonderkommando Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Segments from the Shoah Foundation Archive of Videotaped Testimonies." JWIEDER@VHF.ORG 

Sinnreich, Helene. Doctoral candidate, Comparative History, Brandeis University, US. "Testimony Disregarded: Holocaust Victims and Historians." ANOTHER_IDEA@HOTMAIL.COM 



Tuesday, June 12
8:00-9:00 A.M. Panel 17: Community Values, Rescue, and Memory
Chair and Discussant: Eric Markusen

Jensen, Mette Bastholm. Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, Yale University, US. "Collective Identity in Action: The 1943 Rescue of the Danish-Jewish Community." METTE.BASTHOLM@YALE.EDU 

Rosmus, Anna E. Freelance writer, Washington, DC. "Where Hitler Used to Live: Post-Holocaust Pocking and Passau." AERSEARCH@AOL.COM 

 

9:00-9:15 A.M. Coffee break
9:15-10:45 A.M. Panel 18: Prejudice, Realpolitik and Genocide
Chair and Discussant: Robert Melson

Bendersky, Joseph W. Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, US. "National Security Rationalizations in the U.S. Army's Response to the Holocaust: New Evidence and Cautionary Lessons." JBENDERS@ATLAS.VCU.EDU 

Midlarsky, Manus. International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Rutgers University, US. "Raison d'Žtat, raison d'Žglise: Realpolitik and the Onset of Genocide." MIDLARSK@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU 

Nagy, Thomas. Management Science Department, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University, US. "The Role of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Document on 'Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities' in Halting One Genocide and Preventing Another." NAGY@GWU.EDU 

Panel 19: Propagating Genocide: Borrowing and Permitting
Chair and Discussant: Ben Kiernan  

Weitz, Eric. History Department. University of Minnesota, US. "Are Genocides Modular? Assessing the Transmission of Genocidal Practices." WEITZ004@TC.UMN.EDU 

Hiebert, Maureen. Doctoral candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada. "The Role of a 'Permissive' Political Culture in Genocide." MHIEBERT@CHASS.UTORONTO.CA 

Hinton, Alex. Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, US. "Global Flows and Local Realities: Khmer Rouge Ideology in the Cambodian Genocide." VZE253WP@VERIZON.NET 

Panel 20: Rebuilding and Reconciling
Chair and Discussant: Michele Wagner

Oberschall, Anthony, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US and Ken Palmer, Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US. "After Genocide and Civil Strife: Can Power Sharing Work." TONOB@EMAIL.UNC.EDU 

Asgede Hagos. Department of Communications, Delaware State University, US. "The Role and Potential of Peace Radio in Peace Building: The Cases of Burundi, Uganda and Somalia." ERE21ST@AOL.COM

 

11:00 A.M.-12:45 P.M. AGS Business Meeting and Lunch
1:00-3:00 P.M. Panel 21: Teaching About Genocide
Chair and Discussant: Joyce Apsel

Auron, Yair. Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. "Teaching About the Holocaust and Genocide in Israel." YAIRAU@OUMAIL.OPENU.AC.IL 

Bartrop, Paul R. Deakin University and Bialik College, Toorak, Victoria, Australia. "Education As A Tool for Combating Genocide Denial." PBARTROP@HOTMAIL.COM 

Herman, Lisa. Doctoral candidate, California Institute of Integral Studies, US. "How Do We Respond to Genocide" LHERMAN@ICAN.NET 

Panel 22: Genocide Law, Its Uses and Compensation for Survivors
Chair and Discussant: Judge Gabrielle Kirk 

McDonald Markusen, Eric. Department of Social Sciences, Southwest State University, US and Research Director, Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark. "The Meaning of Genocide as Expressed in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda." MARKUSEN@SSU.SOUTHWEST.MSUS.ED

Schabas, William. Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, Ireland. "The ad hoc Tribunals: Developments in the Law of Genocide." WILLIAM.SCHABAS@NUIGAWAY.IE 

Bazyler, Michael J. Whittier Law School, US. "The Holocaust Restitution Movement in Comparative Perspective." BAZYLER@AOL.COM 

 

3:00-3:15 P.M. Coffee break
3:15-4:30 P.M. The AGS: Future Directions? Next Conference.



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