THURSDAY 28TH JUNE
Thursday 28th June
16:00: Arrival/Registration at the Seven Hills Conference Center
Opening Ceremony: 17:00-18:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
OPENING REMARKS
Jürgen Zimmerer, President of INOGS
WELCOMING REMARKS
Robert Corrigan, President of San Francisco State University
Paul Sherwin, Dean of the College of Creative Arts & Humanities
Bernhard Abels, German Consulate General in San Francisco
Jale Yoldas, Goethe-Institut in San Francisco
Volker Langbehn, Co-organizer of the Conference
18:00-19:00: Keynote Lecture Seven Hills Conf: Center: Nob Hill Room
"The Political Field of Reparations"
John Torpey (Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York)
19:00-19:45: Wine Reception (sponsored by Taylor & Francis)
Seven Hills Conference Center: Coit Lounge
19:45-21:30: Dinner
Towers Conference Center
FRIDAY, 29TH JUNE
Friday 29th June
Session 1: 8:30-10:30
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 1: DESTROYING CORPSES: MASS VIOLENCE AND BODIES’ TREATMENTS
Moderator: Michael Salter (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom)
"Long time missing corpses: soviet mass violence and bodies’ disappearance"
Élisabeth Anstett (Permanent Research Fellow at CNRS-Inserm-EHESS-Université, Paris, France)
"'Causing bodily harm to members of the group': a rhetorical phrase or an effective tool for genocide prevention?"
Caroline Fournet (Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
"Criminological perspectives on the destruction of the body in theatres of mass violence"
Jon Shute (Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 2: GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
Moderator: Lidwien E. Kapteijns (Wellesley College, USA)
"The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic numbing and genocide"
Paul Slovic (Decision Research & University of Oregon, USA)
"Tapping into the “Smart Crowd” to Predict Genocide"
Christopher Tuckwood (The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention, Toronto, Canada)
Collin Sullivan (The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention, Berkeley, USA)
"Genocidal Paths: The Patterns of Repression that Lead to Genocide"
Jessica Brandwein (Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 3: NAZI GENOCIDE I
Moderator: Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
"'A Collective Exercise in Forgetting and Eye-closing': The Missing Reception of the Holocaust in German and American Sociology"
Michael Becker (Department of Sociology, University of Jena, Germany)
"The Economics of Genocide: Capital Market Segmentation, Occupation Economics and the Financing of Genocide in Nazi Germany 1933-1945"
Mary Leacy (Economics Department, Wagner College, USA)
Margaret Horan (Director of the Accounting Program, Wagner College, USA)
"A Romantic Genocide Convention: Raphael Lemkin’s Life and Works for a Critical Genocide Studies"
Douglas Irvin-Erickson (Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights, Rutgers University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 4: GENOCIDE AND THE ARTS I
Moderator: Volker Langbehn (San Francisco State University, USA)
"A Holly Jolly Holocaust: Humor, Genocide, and the Moral Imagination"
Adam Muller (Department of English, Film and Theatre, University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Out of the dark: challenges to genocide invisibility and contemporary art practice"
Yvonne Kyriakides (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Staging Eichmann"
Jordon Mattox (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)
"A Moment of Protest: Simplicissimus Responds to the Making of Genocide in German Southwest Africa"
Jeremy Garsha (Department of History, San Francisco State University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 5: POST-COLONIAL AFRICA
Moderator: Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"Biafra to Darfur: Mass Violence in Post-independence Africa"
Adedayo Adedoyin (Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria)
“A Vision from Hell”
Edward Haley (International Relations Program, Claremont McKenna College, USA)/ Kirsti Zitar (International Relations Program, Claremont McKenna College, USA)
"The Reverberations Apocalypse in Genocide and the Implication for Religion"
Samson Ijaola (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria)
10:30-11:00: Coffee in the Seven Hills Conference Center (Foyer)
Session 2: 11:00-13:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 6: QUESTIONING THE CONVENTIONAL LESSONS OF GENOCIDE
Moderator: Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"Different ways of representing massive state violence and their implications for working through historical trauma"
Daniel Feierstein (Centro de Estudios sobre Genocidio & Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
"Critical Genocide Studies and the Comparative Approach"
Ernesto Verdeja (Department of Political Science and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Critical Genocide Studies: Justice and Time"
Alex Hinton (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 7: THREE APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Moderator: Jeremy Garsha (San Francisco State University, USA)
"The Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ Holocaust Center"
Jessica Minturn (Jewish Family and Children’s Services, San Francisco, USA)/Anne-Marie Yellin (Holocaust survivor)
"Facing History and Ourselves "
Eileen O'Kane (Social Science teacher and Facing History and Ourselves educator, Immaculate Conception Academy Cristo Rey, San Francisco, USA)
"The Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic Schools"
Bruce Bramlett (Associate Director, Helen/Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic Schools, Mercy High School, San Francisco, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 8: RECONCEPTUALIZING GENOCIDE
Moderator: Gregory Kent (University of Roehampton, United Kingdom)
"Understanding Genocide: Eliminating Ethnic Bias"
Anahit Gomtsian (Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
"Discrimination law and genocide: prevention through conceptual consistency "
Monika Ambrus (Erasmus School of Law, University of Rotterdam, NL)
"Forcible transfer of children from one group to another group as a punishable act of cultural genocide under the Genocide" Convention Miguel Salgueiro Meira (Lawyer, Portugal)
"The application of Clinical Formulation to Genocide. The development of a model for the framework of the justice process of genocide"
Natalie Skellon (Assistant Psychologist, Community Learning Disability Team, Trafford, United Kingdom)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 9: CONTEMPORARY ASIA
Moderator: Thomas Bryant (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Germany)
"The Power of Terms: Naming Violence"
Sandra Fahy (Post-Doc. Fellow, Univ. of Southern California, USA)
"Summary of findings from ethnographic interviews inside Cambodia with survivors of Cambodian Genocide"
Daniel N. Huck (Project Director, Digital Narrative of Genocide
Survival, Berea College/Leiden University, USA/Netherlands)
"State-Induced Famine in North Korea"
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann (Department of Global Studies and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
"Nuclear Genocide and the Question of Genocidal Intent"
Akio Kimura (School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University, Japan)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 10: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF GENOCIDE
Moderator: Edward Haley (Claremont McKenna College, USA)
"Becoming Bystanders: Contesting and Determining the Canadian and U.S. Responses to the 'Genocide' in East Pakistan, 1971"
Richard Pilkington (Dep. of History, University of Toronto, Canada)
"Genocide, Cyprus, and the International Order"
Jerome Bowers (Dep. of History, Northern Illinois University, USA)
"The Norm of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP, R2P): A Tool for the Prevention of Mass Atrocities"
Megan Schmidt (New York University, USA)
"The Mendacity, Atrocity, and its Corollary: Revisiting Simele, Iraq"
Sargon Donabed (Roger Williams University, USA)
13:00-14:00: Lunch at the City Eats Dining Center
Session 3: 14:00-16:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 11: RWANDA
FRIDAY, 29TH JUNE
Moderator: Nikki Bambauer (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Rwanda: The shadow of traumatic experiences"
Andrea Grieder (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France & University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"Rescuers during the Rwandan Genocide"
M. Therese Seibert (Department of Sociology, Keene State College, USA)
"The Influence of Identity Reconstructions on Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda"
Birthe C. Reimers (Department of International Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 12: TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES TO GENOCIDE I
Moderator: Sarah Curtis (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Characterization and Dehumanization of Perpetrators and Victims: A Framework to Untangle Genocide in the Congo"
Christopher P. Davey (Department of History, Utah Valley University, USA)
"Socialization process of threats: shift from conflict to mass killing"
Tetsushi Ogata (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University, USA)
"Has the time arrived for an additional protocol to the Genocide Convention relating to 'cultural genocide'"
Miguel Salgueiro Meira (Lawyer, Portugal)
"Cultural Genocide and Key International Instruments: Framing the Indigenous Experience"
Shamiran Mako (Department of Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 13: ARMENIA
Moderator: Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide"
Peter Balakian (Department of English, Colgate University, USA)
"Genocide and Denial. A phenomenological approach""
Khatchik DerGhouhassian (Department of International Relations, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)/Martín Böhmer (Law School at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
"Reimaging the Lost Armenian Landscape: The Role of the Photography and Memoir in the Politics of Memory and Genocide Denial"
Armen Marsoobian (Department of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 14: GENOCIDE AND EDUCATION I
Moderator: Dagmar Lieske (JFCS Holocaust Center, USA)
"Age-appropriateness, 'difficult knowledge' and first contact with genocide"
Simone Schweber (Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
"Animating Genocide: The Children’s Films of Yoram Gross"
Lawrence Baron (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA)
"Interactive Witnessing, Videogames and Genocide"
Elke Heckner (Department of German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 15: THE LAW AND TRIBUNALS I
Moderator: Hilary Earl (Nipissing University, Canada)
"The anti-Semitic Nazi leader Julius Streicher and the Holocaust proceedings at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (1945/46) – Legal lesson of a centenary trial and lasting legacy of a millennial crime"
Thomas Bryant (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Germany)
"From the Ottoman Genocide of Christians to today's preemptive wars: Learning from the past to be more efficient killers" Thea Halo (Sano Themia Halo Pontian Heritage Foundation)
16:00-16:30: Tea & Coffee in the Seven Hills Conference Center (Foyer)
INoGS Plenary Session: 16:30-18:30
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
18:30-19:30: Dinner
City Eats Dining Center
20:30-23:00: Open Bar
Seven Hills Conference Center: Coit Lounge
SATURDAY, 30TH JUNE
Session 1: 8:30-10:30
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 17: CORPORATE LIABILITY FOR GENOCIDE UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
Moderator: Thomas Bryant (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Germany)
Michael Bazyler (School of Law, Chapman University, USA)
Sam Garkawe (School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 18: ANY ‘ROOM’ FOR JAPAN? CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS OF JAPAN’S PROACTIVE INITIATIVES FOR GENOCIDE PREVENTION
SATURDAY, 30TH JUNE
Moderator: Gerhard Wolf (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
"Genocide Research in Japan: Taking a Step Forward for ‘Sustainable’ Genocide Prevention"
Yuji Ishida (Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Why Exploring for Genocide Preventing Tools? –From Field Research in Rwanda"
Ai Yamashita (Human Security Programme, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)
"The Limits of Trials in Dealing with the Past: Holitic Transnational Justice Approach towards Proactive Genocide Prevention"
Kyoko Cross (Kobe University, Japan)
"Evaluation of the Roles of NGOs in Preventing Genocide: A Theoretical Approach and its Evaluation"
Masaki Sawa (Department of International Relations at the Graduate School of Political Science, University of Waseda, Japan)
"’Ideal’ and ‘Reality’: Can Japan Proactively Join Genocide Prevention Initiatives in the International Arena?"
Mayumi Watabe (Independent consultant on human security and post-conflict reconstruction strategy, Japan)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 19: GENOCIDE AND EDUCATION II
Moderator: Dagmar Lieske (JFCS Holocaust Center, USA)
"Education and genocide prevention"
Roberta Devlin-Scherer (Department of Education, Seton Hall University, USA)/Nancy Sardone (School of Education, Georgian Court University, USA)
"Education and Genocide Prevention: A Critical Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Genocides in Bosnia and Kosovo "
Jane Gangi (Division of Education, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, USA)
"The Turn Toward Genocide Education and Prevention"
Randall H. Kaufman/Magdalena Lamarre (Holocaust and Genocide Education Program, Miami Dade College, Homestead Campus, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 20: GENOCIDE AND PHILOSOPHY
Moderator: Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
"What’s Modern in “Modern” Genocides: Hegel, the Logic of Violence, and Genocide Studies"
Joshua D. Goldstein (Department of Political Science, University of Calgary, Canada)/Maureen Hiebert (Department of Political Science, University of Calgary, Canada)
"A linguistic precedent of Genocide: the «exécrations nationicides» described by François-Nöel Babeuf in Du Systéme de Dépopulation"
Carmelo Leotta (Dipartimento di Storia e Filosofia del Diritto e Diritto Canonico, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
"Perpatrator abhorrence: a moral sentiment?"
Ditte Marie Munch-Hansen (Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 21: TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES TO GENOCIDE II
Moderator: Kye Terrasi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Crystallizations of the Western Global State in the era of Climate Crisis"
Gregory Kent (Department of International Relations and Human Rights, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom)
"Building the Non-Genocidal Society: A Relational and Bottom-Up Perspective"
Christopher Powell (Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Territorial Cleansing: The Geopolitics of Genocide"
Nicole Reiz (Department of Geography, University of Kansas, USA)
"Group’ Identities and Individual Rights: Genocide Studies and the Problem of ‘Group’ Rights in Questions of Prevention"
Sarah Danielsson (Department of History, City University of New York, Queensborough, USA)
10:30-11:00: Coffee in the Seven Hills Conference Center (Foyer)
Session 2: 11:00-13:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 22: GENOCIDE AND EDUCATION III
Moderator: Jane Gangi (Mount Saint Mary College, USA)
"Narratives of Injustice: Measuring the Impact of Witness Testimony in the Classroom"
Susan Legere (Department of Sociology, Boston College, USA)
"'Why Does Wearing A Yellow Bib Make Us Different?': a case study of explaining genocide in a West of Scotland high school Henry Maitles" (School of Education, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland)
"First week of school after the 1994 Rwandan genocide: the case of students in public secondary schools in Kigali"
Musa Wakhungu Olaka (Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center, University of South Florida, USA)
"Imagination, performance and affect: a critical pedagogy of the Holocaust?"
Steven Cooke (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia)/Donna-Lee Frieze (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 23: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN NORTH-AMERICA I
Moderator: Dane Johnson (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Networks of Destruction in Indigenous North America: Boarding/Residential Schools and Genocide in Canada and the US" Andrew Woolford (Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba, Canada)
"Humanitarian Intervention: Changing the Conversation in American Politics"
Dan McMillan (Independent Scholar, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 24: NAZI GENOCIDE II
Moderator: Deborah Anna Brown (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Goebbels's Close Enemies- Intimacy as an analytic tool for the understanding of genocidal rhetoric's in Goebbels Diaries"
David Deutsch (Department of Sociology, Ben Gurion University, Israel)
"Hitler's 'Indian Wars': The Colonial Origins, Context, and Content of Nazi Genocide (including the Holocaust)"
Carroll P. Kakel (Center for the Liberal Arts, The Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Conflicting historical memories of ethnic cleansing against German minorities"
James Mayfield (Department of History, Stanford University, USA)
"From (forced) emigration to deportation: Reconsidering the Nisko Plan and the initial phase of National Socialist Germanisation policy in annexed Poland"
Gerhard Wolf (Department of History, University of Sussex, UK
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 25: MEMORY ACROSS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
Moderator: Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Collective memory and war remembrance in Eastern and Northern Europe"
Marianne Neerland Soleim (Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre, University in Trondheim NTNU, Norway)
"The Politics of Memory and the Display of Human Remains: Murambi Genocide Memorial, Rwanda"
Shannon Scully (Photographic and Physical Collections Officer, Genocide Archive of Rwanda, Aegis Trust Rwanda)
"Lesson from Warsaw: Post-memory and Peace Education"
Krystyna Blaszynska (Department of Humanities, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland)
"Survey of Genocide Memorials - Museums: 3 Atrocities; 3 Memorials; 3 Countries"
Amy Fagin (20th Century Illuminations, USA)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 26: MASS VIOLENCE
Moderator: Gregory Kent (University of Roehampton, United Kingdom)
“Erasing the Boundaries between Combatants and Non-Combatants: War and Targeted Mass Killing”
John Cox (Department of Global, International & Area Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)
"Neighbours becoming Perpetrators: Explaining Participation in Mass Rape and Sexual Violence in Genocide"
Alexis Nesbitt (Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Ireland)
"'Double Killing': Confronting Denial and Securing Memory"
Clotilde Pégorier (Senior Research Fellow at the University of Luzern, Switzerland)
"Genocide Denial as an International Crime: Weaknesses and Advantages of this Concept"
Enis Omerović (Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
13:00-14:00: Lunch at the City Eats Dining Center
Session 3: 14:00-16:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 27: REMEMBERING GENOCIDE
Moderator: Dagmar Lieske (JFCS Holocaust Center, USA)
"Three Films, One Genocide: Memory, Memorialization and Reflection in Ravished Armenia(s)"
Donna-Lee Frieze (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia)
"Remembering the group "in whole or in part": Reconciling individual grief with group commemoration"
Pam Maclean (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia)
"The Intergenerational Transmission of the Memory of Genocide" Avril Alba (Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, Australia)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 28: THE SILENCE OF VIOLENCE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Moderator: Deborah Anna Brown (San Francisco State University, USA)
"The Many Meanings of “Martyr” and the Afterlife of Violence: Eritreans in Diaspora and the Politics of Sacrifice"
Victoria Bernal (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Mass violence at the margins of the state: the return of garrison rule in the Ethiopian Ogaden"
Tobias Hagmann (Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Towards a history of large-scale violence against civilians in Somalia’s civil war "
Lidwien E. Kapteijns (Department of History, Wellesley College, USA)
Discussant: Donald Donham (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 29: APPROACHES TO GENOCIDE PREVENTION
Moderator: Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
"When Good Breaks out during Genocide: Case Studies of Heroic Acts in the Face of Evil"
Paul R. Bartrop (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA)
"Law and Genocide: A Promise Unfulfilled"
Alex Alvarez (Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University, USA)
"The Politics of Genocide Prevention in the 21st Century: How Are We Doing?"
Herbert Hirsch (Department of Political Sciences & Public Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
"Catholicism as a Fail-safe to Genocide? Some reflections on Religion, Violence, and the Prevention of Mass Murder"
Lauren Faulkner (Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 30: THE LAW AND TRIBUNALS II
Moderator: Dane Johnson (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Between Genocide and Persecution: An International Criminal Law Response to Acts of Cultural Annihilation"
Elisa Novic (Department of Law at the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy)
"Guilt Admissions and Interview Techniques in International Courts and Tribunals"
Melanie O’Brien (ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, Griffith University, Australia)
"A case study on evidence and intent for genocide: the Falun Gong in China"
David Matas (Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Canada)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 31: GENOCIDE AND THE ARTS II
Moderator: Volker Langbehn (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Political Epistemology of Genocide: The Impact of Genocide pictures on Politics"
Philipp Ruch (Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act, Germany)
"Genre and the Literature of Genocide"
Katherine Wilson (Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
"The Role of Genocide and Post-Genocide Literature in Creating Politically Engaged Imagined Communities"
Kate O’Neill (Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada)
16:00-16:30: Tea & Coffee in the Seven Hills Conference Center (Foyer)
Session 4: 16:30-18:30
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
18:30-19:30: Dinner
City Eats Dining Center
20:30-23:00: Open Bar
Seven Hills Conference Center: Coit Lounge
SUNDAY, 1ST JULY
Session 1: 0900-11:00
Seven Hills Conference Center: Nob Hill Room
PANEL 33: GENOCIDE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN NORTH-AMERICA II
Moderator: Dagmar Lieske (JFCS Holocaust Center)
"Silencing History and Failing to See the Future: Denying Genocide and Climate Change in the United States"
Jeff Benvenuto (The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights (CGCHR) at The State University of New Jersey, USA)
"Centre and Periphery: Context and Content of Settler Colonial Genocide"
Tricia Logan (Department of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London, Canada)
"Present Absences: Remembrance In Germany, Amnesia In California"
Tony Platt (Department of Justice Studies, San Jose State University, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Sunset
PANEL 34: RECONCILING WITH GENOCIDE: THE ROLE OF LAW IN POST-GENOCIDE SOCIETIES
Moderator: Thomas Bryant (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin, Germany)
"`Bad Nazis and Other Germans’: The fate of SS-Einsatzgruppen Commander Martin Sandberger in Postwar Germany”
Hilary Earl (Department of History, Nipissing University, Canada)
"Justice at Dachau? US Military Commission Courts and the Adjudication of Nazi Crimes"
Tomaz Jardim (Department of History, Ryeson University, Canada)
"Reconciliation in Rwanda: the Push and Pull of Post-Genocide Law"
Valerie Hébert (Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and History, Lakehead University at Orillia, Canada)
Towers Conference Center: Richmond
PANEL 35: CIRCASSIAN GENOCIDE
Moderator: Elizabetta Nelsen (San Francisco State University, USA)
"Effacing a Crime, Denying a Nation: Russian Strategies for Concealing the Circassian Genocide"
Walter Richmond (Occidental College, USA)
"Watching History in the Re-making: Sterilizing place and rewriting history through international events John Haghor (Circassian Association of California, USA)"
Cicek Chek (Circassian Association of California, USA)
Towers Conference Center: Presidio
PANEL 36: GENOCIDE ON TRIAL: LINKING THE PERPETRATORS TO THE ATROCITY
Moderator: Elies van Sliedregt (Dean of the Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"Insider Witnesses: Linking Perpetrators at What Cost?"
Joris Van Wijk (Department of Criminology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"Genocide on Trial: Linking the Perpetrator to the Atrocity / Tales of Genocide: the Didactic Purpose of Trials Versus the Rights of Accused"
Elinor Fry (Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
"The Historical Character of Genocidal Intent"
Marjolein Cupido (Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mary Park Hall: Park Lounge
PANEL 37: SETTLER COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE: WHEN HUNTERS-GATHERERS AND COMMERCIAL STOCK FARMERS CLASH
Moderator: Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"Socio-Ecological Systems and Ecocide in Conflict Between Hunter-gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers in Australia"
Norbert Finzsch (Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany)
"The Destruction of Hunter-gatherer Societies by Commercial Stock Farmers in Southern Africa, Australia and North American compared"
Mohamed Adhikari (Department of History, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
"Physical and/or Cultural Genocide? Conflicts between Hunters-Gatherers and Pastoralists in Eastern and Southern Africa"
Robert Hitchcock (Department of Geography and Anthropology, Michigan State University, USA)
11:30-12:30: Lunch at the City Eats Dining Center
Special Power Point Presentation throughout the Conference
"Beyond Genocide"
Amy Fagin (20th Century Illuminations, USA)