| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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? |