"The Future of Genocide"
Association of Genocide Scholars
Third International Conference
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
June 13-15, 1999

June 13
1-3 PM Registration

3-3:15 Welcome
Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roger Smith, President, AGS
Eric Markusen, Southwest State University, Minnesota
In Memoriam: Stig Hornshoj-Moller

3:15-5 Panel 1: Strategic Approaches to Genocide Prevention and the Failure to Deter in Kosovo:
What Should Be Done and What is to Be Done?
Helen Fein, Chair, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Howard Adelman, York University, Toronto
Barbara Harff, U.S. Naval Academy
John Heidenrich, Open Source Solutions, Inc.

5:15-7 Panel 2: Australia and the Question of Genocide
Roger Smith, Chair, College of William and Mary, Virginia

Colin Tatz, Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
The Removal of Children as Genocide

A. D. Moses, University of California, Berkeley
Genocide in Colonial Australia?

5:15-7 Panel 3: Lessons from the Past: The Holocaust and Rwanda
Frank Chalk, Chair, Concordia University, Montreal
Radio Broadcasting in the Incitement and Interdiction of Genocide: The Cases of the Holocaust and Rwanda

William Miles, Northeastern University, Boston
Hamites and Hebrews: Problems in "Judaizing" the Rwandan Genocide

Susan E. Cook, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University
Legacies of Genocide: Security, Justice, and Healing

June 14
8-10 AM Panel 4: Educating About Genocide in the 21st Century: Reassessment, Challenges and New Directions
Joyce Apsel, Chair, Anne Frank Center, USA
Looking Backward and Forward: Educating about Genocide and for Human Rights: Reappraisal and New Directions

Kathryn A. Poethig, California State University, Monterey Bay
Teaching the Dhammayietra: Cambodia's Engaged Buddhist Response to the Conflict

Carole A. Reed, Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre, Toronto
Survivors of the Holocaust and Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide in Dialogue

Nigel Young, Colgate University
Teaching about Genocide - Techniques and Challenge for the 21st Century

10:15-11:15 The International Criminal Court
Minna Schrag, attorney, former prosecutor U.N. International War Crimes Tribunal

11:30-12:30 Panel 5: Genocide, Art, and Popular Culture
Stephen Feinstein, Chair, University of Minnesota
Artistic Edges: Pop Art and Hard Satire about the Holocaust and Genocide by Recent Artists

Jeannette Smyth, Washington,D.C.
Anne Frank in Japan

Panel 6: Teaching About Genocide
Paul Bartrop, Chair, Deakin University, Australia
Teaching Genocide Studies in School and University: Differing Approaches, Similar Outcomes

Colin Tatz, Macquerie University, Australia
Teaching Comparative Genocide

Panel 7: Reflections on the Holocaust
Steven L. Jacobs, Chair, Temple B'Nai Sholom, Huntsville, Alabama
Genocide in the Twentieth Century: Responding to Omer Bartov's 1998 American Historical Review Essay 'Defining Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust'

Rachel M. MacNair, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Historical Evidence for Psychological Consequences of Killing for the Nazis

12:30-2 Lunch (in conference center) and Presentation
Robert Melson, Purdue University, Indiana
False Papers: Tension Between Testimony and Story in a Holocaust Memoir

2-4 Panel 8: The Genocide Convention
William Schabas, University of Quebec at Montreal
The Akeyesu Judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

4:15-6:15 Panel 9: Genocide in Rwanda and Burindi
Mark Levene, Chair, University of Warwick, UK

Christian P. Scherrer, Copenhagen Peace Research Institute
Ethnization and Genocide in Central Africa

David N. Smith, University of Kansas
Genocide and the Post-Patrimonial State: The Rwandan Example

Bjorn Willum, King's College, London
Legitimising Inaction Towards Mass Murder -- Decision or Failure?


Panel 10: Prevention of Genocide
Peter Ronayne, Chair, The Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA
The Reluctant Norm Entreprenuer: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide

Brian Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Overcoming the Effects of Ethnocide in the Former Soviet Union. Future Threats to the Exiled Crimean Tatar Community of the Ukraine

Neil Riemer, Drew University
Protection Against Genocide: Problems and Prospects in Kosovo

8-9:45 Triumph of Evil (film on the Rwandan genocide)
Discussion chairs, Robert Melson, Purdue University and Frank Chalk, Concordia University

June 15
8-9:45 AM Panel 11: Encyclopedia of Genocide
The panelists are senior editors of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Genocide, the first encyclopedia in the field of genocide studies, which will be published in the United States and England later this year. Each panelist will speak about the development of the work and its significance for the field, and will also discuss the following topics:

Israel W. Charny, Chair, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem (Editor-in-Chief)
"Holocaust": The Word "Holocaust" and Its Usage and Implications for the Classification of Genocide

Steven L. Jacobs, Temple B'nai Sholom, Huntsville, Alabama
The Drama of Raphael Lemkin; and Treatment of the Holocaust and Holocaust Denial in the Encyclopedia

Marc I. Sherman, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University
Information Systems and Genocide Research (with illustrations on the Web)

Eric Markusen, Southwest State University, Minnesota
The Genocides in the Former Yugoslavia

Panel 12: The Structure of Genocide
Herbert Hirsch, Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University

Mark Levene, University of Warwick, UK
Schizophrenia and Ambivalence: International Society and Genocide at the Millenium

Steph Lambert, Arizona State University
Internal Genocide during Nation-State Formation

David Sallach, University of Chicago
Freedom, Complexity and Genocide

10-12 Panel 13: Genocide, Rape, Conscience
Roger Smith, Chair, College of William and Mary, Virginia

Lisa Sharlach, University of California, Davis
Ethnic Conflict, the State, and Rape

Robyn Carpenter, University of Oregon
Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape Discourse

Ruth Linn, Haifa University, Israel
Soldiers with Conscience Never Die -- They are Just Ignored by Moral Researchers

Panel 14: Language, Genocide, and Denial
Kurt Jonassohn, Chair, and Karin Doerr, Concordia University, Montreal
The Persistence of Nazi German

Cheng-Chih Wang, Purdue University, Indiana
Language-Facilitated Genocide -- The Case of China (1949-1953)

12-1 Business Meeting
Presidential Address (brief)
Financial report
Elections
Resolutions

2:15-4 Panel 15: Origins of Genocide
Jack Nusan Porter, Chair, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Alex Hinton, Rutgers University, Newark
Genocide at the End of Time: Democratic Kampuchea as a 'Revitalization" Movement

Anthony Oberschall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
From Ethnic Cooperation to Xenophobic Nationalism and War in Yugoslavia

Panel 16: Genocide and Human Consciousness
Herbert Hirsch, Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University
Public Opinion and Genocide

Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation -- Genocide and the World Council of Churches

Anatole N. Ayissi, Partners for Peace in Africa, Paris
Deadly Alterity: Genocide and the Curse of Otherness

4:15-5 Scholars and the Future of Genocide: What Should We Be Doing?



To Receive Copies of Papers
Please send your request for papers to the AGS Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Steven L. Jacobs who will forward your request to the respective authors.


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