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THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
Professor Jan Grabowski
(University of Ottawa)
on
"Nazi Anti-Jewish Propaganda in Poland, 1939-1945"
Monday, 30 November 2009,
12:00-13:00/Room LB-1014,
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
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JAN GRABOWSKI is a professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His article on "German Anti-Jewish Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1945: Inciting Hate through Posters, Films, and Exhibitions," has just appeared in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 23, 3 (Winter 2009): 381-412. He is the author of “Ja Tego Zyda Znam!” Szantazowanie Zydow w Warszawie, 1939–1943 (2004) , published in French as: ’Je le connais, c’est un Juif!’ Varsovie 1939-1943. Le chantage contre les Juifs”, éditions Calmann-Lévy, (Paris, 2008) and Rescue for Money: “Paid Helpers” in Poland, 1939–1945 (Jerusalem, 2008), as well as of numerous articles, including “Jewish Defendants in German and Polish Courts in the Warsaw District, 1939–1942” (Yad Vashem Studies, 2007); “Rewriting the History of Polish-Jewish Relations from a Nationalist Perspective: The Recent Publications of the Institute of National Remembrance” (YVS, 2008); “The Holocaust in Northern Mazovia (Poland) in the Light of the Archive of the Ciechanów Gestapo” (Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2004). He is currently working on a project (in cooperation with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Warsaw) on the Holocaust in the rural areas of occupied Poland.
Vancouver launch of the Will to Intervene (W2I) Project Report
Mobilizing the Will to Intervene:
Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities
Dialogue on Mobilizing the Will to Intervene
Friday, November 27, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Room 420, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
AGENDA
9:30am: Refreshments served
10:00am: Welcome by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President of The Simons Foundation
Welcome and introduction of Prof. Frank Chalk, Co-chair of the W2I Project, and Ms.
Shauna Sylvester, Dialogue Moderator, by Dr. Mark Winston, Chair and Academic
Director, Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University
Introduction of Dialogue participants
Brief on the Will to Intervene (W2I) Project and related issues by Prof. Frank Chalk,
Co-Director of the W2I Project and Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and
Human Rights Studies at Concordia University
Discussion moderated by Ms. Shauna Sylvester, Director of Canada’s World
Closing remarks by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, President of The Simons Foundation
12:00: noon Conclusion
The Will to Intervene (W2I) Project is a research initiative created by LGen. The Hon. Roméo Dallaire (Ret’d),
Senator, and Prof. Frank Chalk, Director of MIGS, to identify strategic and practical steps to raise the capacity of
government officials, legislators, civil servants, non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, journalists, and the
media to build the Will to Intervene to Prevent Mass Atrocities.
The W2I Dialogue is convened by The Simons Foundation, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights
Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, SFU’s Centre for Dialogue, and Canada’s World.
Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations:
Oral History, New Media and the Arts
Montefiore Club -- 1195 Guy, Montreal
5-8 NOVEMBER 2009
Click here to view the full conference program
THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
Professor Bruce Broomhall
(UQAM)
on
"Delivering Justice for Rwanda's Victims in Canadian Courts"
Friday, 30 October 2009,
12:00-13:30/Room LB-1014,
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
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Bruce Broomhall is a professor of international criminal law as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalization at the Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM). Prior to this, Dr. Broomhall was Senior Legal Officer for International Justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Institute, Based in Budapest, Hungary. In that capacity, he worked to promote the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the documentation of international crimes and the mobilization of civil society by coordinating advocacy, training, research and other types of collaboration in Cambodia, the Caucasus, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Previously, as Director of the International Justice Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, he was involved in promoting universal jurisdiction and the adoption of the Rome Statute, and was actively engaged on the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the ICC to ensure respect for the Court's effectiveness during negotiation of its Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crime. In 2003, Oxford University Press published his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.
Robert Petit, un avocat québécois au cœur du tribunal des Khmers rouges
Bilingual Lecture, Presentation in English and French
Wednesday - Mercredi 28 octobre 2009 17h30- 19h00
En 2009, le procès de Douch, ancien chef de la prison de Tuol Sleng (S21), centre de torture, d’interrogation et d’exécution, a commencé à Phnom Penh. Au côté d’une procureure cambodgienne, Robert Petit, avocat québécois, a tenu la fonction de co-procureur international au cours des trois dernières années. Maître Petit partage son expérience unique, et les effets du tribunal qu’il a constatés sur place en termes de sensibilisation de la population. En partenariat avec le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique de l’Université McGill Moot Court, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 3660 rue Peel Métro Peel
Robert Petit, a Quebec lawyer central to the Khmer Rouge trial
Wednesday, October 28 2009 5:30 pm - 7:00pm
In 2009, the trial of Duch, formerly Director of the Tuol Sleng (S21) prison, centre of torture, interrogation and execution began in Phnom Penh. Alongside a Cambodian prosecutor, Robert Petit, a Quebec lawyer, held the position of International Co-Prosecutor for the last three years. Maître Petit shares his unique experience as well as the impact of the tribunal in sensitizing the Cambodian population. In partnership with the McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism Moot Court, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3660 Peel St. Métro Peel
THE MUNK CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
AND THE TRUDEAU CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
PRESENT A
PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF
THE REPORT OF THE
MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES,
"MOBILIZING THE WILL TO INTERVENE: LEADERSHIP AND ACTION TO PREVENT MASS ATROCITIES"
TUESDAY/13 OCTOBER 2009
10:00 AM - 12:00
VIVIAN AND DAVID CAMPBELL CONFERENCE FACILITY
FEATURING
SPEAKERS FRANK CHALK AND KYLE MATTHEWS, MIGS/CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY,
AND JANICE STEIN, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
WITH DISCUSSANTS CRISTINA BADESCU AND TAYLOR OWEN, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
REGISTRATION AT: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventId=8264
THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
Erin Jessee
MIGS Graduate Fellow
on
"Symbolic Violence in Rwanda and Bosnia: Bringing Concepts to Earth"
Friday, 16 October 2009
12:00-13:30/Room LB-1014
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE BLVD. WEST
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MIGS Graduate Fellow Erin Jessee is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program at Concordia University. Her research draws upon the fields of oral history, ethnograhpy, and the forensic sciences to examine how survivors, perpetrators and other actors make sense of the violence they experience during periods of mass human rights violations. Her regional foci include Rwanda and Bosinia-Hercegovina. At present, she is writing her doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled
"Inscribed Intent: Symbolic Violence and Social Death in the Aftermath of the Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides".
THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
Kyle Matthews
W2I Lead Researcher
on
"Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Researching History for Public Policy Recommendations"
Monday, 5 October 2009
12:15-13:45/Room LB-1014
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE BLVD. WEST
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Kyle Matthews is W2I's Lead Researcher. He joined the project after more than five years of diplomatic service at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. During that time, he was posted to the Southern Caucasus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Geneva. He previously worked for CARE Canada in Albania and later at its headquarters in Ottawa, where he managed various humanitarian response initiatives and peace-building projects. Originally from Ottawa, Kyle completed his Master’s in Development and International Relations at Aalborg University in Denmark (2001), earned a certificate in Refugee Issues from York University (2002) and received his undergraduate degree in History from Carleton University (1996). He is currently completing a Professional Master’s at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University
The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), at Concordia University, is pleased to invite you to attend the American and Canadian launch of the report:
Mobilizing the Will to Intervene:
Leadership and Action to Prevent Mass Atrocities
The Will to Intervene (W2I) Project is a research initiative created by Lieut. General (retired) Romeo Dallaire and Dr. Frank Chalk, the Senior Fellow and Director of MIGS, that aims to operationalize the principles of the Responsibility to Protect. Led by researcher Kyle Matthews, more than 80 interviews were conducted with high-level policy-makers, members of Congress, parliamentarians, NGO representatives, and journalists in Canada and the United States, some for the first time on record.
U.S. Launch
Monday September 21st, 2009, 1:00pm-3:00pm United States Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street N.W. - Washington, D.C. Co-organized by MIGS and the United States Institute of Peace, the American launch will consist of a presentation of the report’s findings, followed by a panel discussion on the report’s policy proposals and the challenges of mobilizing the domestic will in the U.S. to prevent mass atrocities. The panel will include Lieut. General (retired) Romeo Dallaire, Co-Director of the W2I Project, Michael Gerson, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, and Andrew Natsios, a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. James Traub, a writer for the New York Times Magazine, will moderate the event. To RSVP, please go to www.usip.org/events/mobilizing-the-will-intervene
Canadian Launch
Tuesday September 22nd, 2009, 10:00am-10:45pm National Press Gallery, 150 Wellington Street, Press Theatre room, Ottawa The Canadian launch will consist of a press conference where the report’s findings and policy proposals to the Canadian Government will be unveiled. The speakers at the press conference will include Lieut. General (retired) Romeo Dallaire, and Dr. Frank Chalk, Co-Directors of the W2I Project, Robert Fowler, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Senator Hugh Segal, and Ed Broadbent, former leader of the New Democractic Party.
Please note that this event is not open to the public. Only journalists accredited with the National Press Gallery are permitted to attend the press conference. Journalists should contact Colin Lafrance, lafraco@parl.gc.ca, to obtain a pass if they do not already have one.
Canadian Parliamentary Launch
As a follow up to the W2I press conference, a panel discussion on the report’s policy recommendations for the Government of Canada will take place on Parliament Hill in the morning of 1 October for Canadian Members of Parliament, Senators, government officials and civil society groups. The event is being co-organized by MIGS and the Canadian All Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The event will be moderated by Robert Fowler, former Canadian Ambassador to the UN, and panelist will include Lieut. General (retired) Romeo Dallaire and Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States. Other panel members will be announced in due time.
Thursday October 1st, 2009, 8:30am-10:00am 140 Wellington street (Victoria Building), Room 505, Ottawa, ON
To RSVP, please go to: http://www.preventiongenocide.org/lang/en/upcoming-events-les-evenements-a-venir/w2i
THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
PROF. John Rodden
University of Texas at Austin
on
" MARXED MENSCHEN: EAST GERMAN VICTIMS OF THE STASI SPEAK OUT "
Tuesday 29 September 2009
12:00 TO 13:30 PM
ROOM LB 1014
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE BLVD. WEST
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John Rodden teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995 (2001), Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity (2006), and The Walls That Remain: Western and Eastern Germans Since Reunification (2007). His book, Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories of East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse is forthcoming from Penn State University Press.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02521-2.html
THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS A
MIGS WORKSHOP
with
PROF. PETER BALAKIAN
Colgate University
on
ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA
Grigoris Balakian’s Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918
MONDAY/1 JUNE 2009
2:00 TO 3:30 PM
ROOM LB 1014
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE BLVD. WEST
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PETER BALAKIAN (Ph.D., Brown University) teaches poetry, American literature, genocide studies and Armenian history at Colgate University, where he is Professor of English. His books, The Burning Tigris and Black Dog of Fate were NY Times notable books in 2003 and 1997. Grigoris Balakian was Peter Balakian’s great uncle and a distinguished Armenian intellectual. Armenian Golgotha is the first English translation of his key memoir of the Armenian genocide, which appeared in 1922 in Armenian. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in April 2009.
Invitation to a Round Table on
Afghanistan and Peacebuilding
With Lakhdar Brahimi
International Civil Aviation Building
999, University Street, Montreal, Quebec
The Canadian United Nations Association – Greater Montreal and the Raoul
Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, Université du Québec a
Montréal, take pleasure in inviting you to a Round Table on Afghanistan and
Peacebuilding with Lakhdar Brahimi, former Special Representative of Secretary
General Kofi Annan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan 2002-
2004.
The Round Table will be held a the International Civil Aviation Organisation
(ICAO). 999 University Street, Montreal, on Tuesday 5 May 2009, from 10 to 12
o’clock. Registrations of participants will start at 9h30 in the hall of ICAO building.
Participation at this event is on invitation only, not transmissible; please have a
photo ID for Security Control. The Chatam House Rules will apply to this closed
session.
REPLY NOW A limited number of seats are available and we would appreciate a
reply to our invitation. Registration at 514 or by E-mail: coutu.melanie@uqam.ca
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Invitation à une table ronde sur
L’Afghanistan et la consolidation de la paix
avec Lakhdar Brahimi
Siège de l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale
999, rue University, Montréal, Québec
L’Association canadienne des Nations unies – Grand Montréal et la Chaire Raoul
Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques de l’Université du Québec à
Montréal ont le plaisir de vous inviter à une table ronde sur L’Afghanistan et la
consolidation de la paix, en compagnie de Lakhdar BRAHIMI, ancien
Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général Kofi Annan et chef de la mission
d’assistance des Nations Unies en Afghanistan de 2002 à 2004.
La table ronde se tiendra au siège de l’Organisation civile internationale (OACI),
au 999, rue University à Montréal, le mardi 5 mai 2009, de 10 heures à midi.
L’enregistrement des participants commencera à 9h30 dans le hall de l’OACI.
La rencontre est sur invitation seulement, une invitation non-transmissible,
veuillez vous munir d’une pièce d’identité avec photo aux fins du contrôle
sécuritaire. Le débat se déroulera suivant les règles de Chatam House, c'est-àdire
sans attribution et sans mention d’affiliation.
R.S.V.P. Un nombre limité de place est disponible et vous nous obligeriez en
répondant à cette invitation. Enregistrement au 514 987-6781 Ou par e-mail au
coutu.melanie@uqam.ca
“My Name is Beatrice. I am 15 years old.”
Experiences in one girl’s story of conflict, displacement
and motherhood in northern Uganda.
Mondays: 12h to 18h
Tuesdays: 12h to 19h
Wednesdays to Saturdays: 12h to 20h
Sundays: 12h to 15h
Théatre Aujourd’hui, in conjunction with the production of Suzanne
Lebeau’s play “Le Bruit Des Os Qui Craquent”, is pleased to present
“My Name is Beatrice. I am 15 years old.”
“My Name is Beatrice. I am 15 years old.” shatters preconceptions
about child soldiers and internal displacement. It is a photo exhibit
based on Lara Rosenoff’s three visits with Beatrice over the past 2
years in Padibe Internally Displaced Person's camp in northern Uganda.
Beatrice’s experience of abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel
group begins a narrative that unfolds into the everyday dramas of a 15
year-old girl in an internal displacement camp, living through a war
that began before she was born.
The collaborative work pairs images with texts from both Lara and
Beatrice, exploring how direct narration from those living in the
center of conflict can challenge our dominant understandings and
reframe our perceptions.
____________________________________________________________________
Lara Rosenoff is an award winning photographer and filmmaker whose
work has been shown at festivals, on television, in galleries and at
policy conferences in Canada, the United States and Japan. She has
collaborated on numerous campaigns for peace in Northern Uganda as
lecturer, activist and artist, and plans to continue her work in the
area as a Doctoral candidate in Anthropology at UBC. This is her first
collaboration with Beatrice.
Beatrice is currently enrolled at Saint Monica’s Tailoring School for
Girls in Gulu, Uganda as a result of this project. She is a survivor
of the conflict in northern Uganda. She is interested in learning more
about her (Acholi) culture, knowledge which has been lost to many in
northern Uganda as result of the long conflict. This is her first
collaboration with Lara.
Contact: Lara Rosenoff
lararosenoff@gmail.com
www.lararosenoff.com
FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TUTSI GENOCIDE SCHEDULED CONFERENCES
Within the framework of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, HUMURA Association
organizes a series of conferences centered on two main themes: Justice and Memory.
Eminent speakers include the Honorable Paul Dewar and the Honorable Irwin Cotler, respectively New Democratic
Party’s member of the Parliament for the Ottawa Center region and Liberal Party’s member of the Parliament representing
Mont-Royal region, and former Minister of Justice of Canada; M. Adama Dieng, Registrar of the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda(ICTR); H.E. Edda Mukabagwiza, Rwandan Ambassador to Canada and former Minister of Justice of
Rwanda; M. Martin Ngoga, General Prosecutor of Rwanda; H.E. Ambassador Dr. Joseph Nsengimana,Rwandan Ambassador
to the UN; Bishop Alexis Bilindabagabo, Anglican Church of Rwanda, Founder and Legal Representative of the BARAKABAHO
Foundation; Dr. Karen Murphy, Director of International Programs at Facing History and Ourselves, Jean-Marie Vianey Rurangwa,
author, playwright, poet, essayist and actor; and Professor Josiah SEMUJANGA, University of Montreal.
Fifteen years after a million of tutsis and moderate hutus were butchered by a brutal hutu regime in the total indifference of the rest
of the world, what are achievements and failures of the international community in its responses to the aftermath? To which
extend were these responsible of the genocide held accountable of their crimes? What about reparations to victims? How do we
preserve the memory of the human barbaric crimes and, what about the future?
To respond to these thorny questions, conferences and debates are scheduled throughout the commemorative period starting
from April 7th until May 9th, 2009.
Presentations are in both French and English.
Scheduled Conferences
When: April 7th, 2009 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue: House of Common, West Block, Room 200, Ottawa (Ontario).
Topic: InternationalResponses to the Genocide against Tutsis – Fifteen Years Later
Speakers: Professor Frank Chalk (TBC): International Responses to the Genocide against Tutsis
Honorable Irwin Cotler: Canada’s Responses
Honorable Paul Dewar: The Road Ahead
Moderator: Professor Allan Thomson
When: April 18th, 2009 from 9:00 am to 6:00 am
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa (Ontario)
Topic: International and National Judicial Responses to Genocide against Tutsis – Punishing and Repairing!
Speakers: M. Adam Dieng: International Judicial Response - ICTR
M. Martin Ngoga and H.E. Edda Mukabagwiza: National Judicial Response – Rwanda
H.E. Ambassador Dr. Joseph Nsengimana: Reparations to Victims, How and by Who?
Bishop Alexis Birindabagabo: Assistance to Genocide Survivors and Moral Responsibility
Discussions in groups and plenary session.
Moderator: M. Richard Nsanzabaganwa LL.M., President of HUMURA Association
When: May 2nd, 2009 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: University of Sait-Paul, Ottawa (Ontario)
Topic: Lapse of Memory and Falsification of History – the Road Ahead
Speakers: Professor Josias Semujanga: Les récits d'un génocide: entre histoire et mémoires
M. Jean Marie-Vianey Rurangwa: Memory Keepers and Lapse of Memory – Stakes and Risks
Dr. Karen Murphy: Teaching Genocide History to Rwandan New Generations
Moderator: M. Oscar Gasana
Concordia Armenian Students' Association
UdeM Armenian Students' Association
McGill Armenian Students' Association
Armen Karo Student Association
Cordially Invite you to the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (1915-2009)
"Silence and Denial in the History of Genocide"
by Dr Frank Chalk Professor of History and Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
at Concordia University Location: Hall Building, Room 535, Concordia University
Date: Thursday March 26th, 2009, 8:30 pm
1550 De Maisonneuve W
Let's Fight against Denial and Silence Together The event is sponsored by:
-Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University
-Hillel Montreal
Colloque: Le Génocide contre les Tutsi du Rwanda
15 ans après: Situation des rescapés, Justice et Mémoire
19 Mars: 19h00-21h00: Soirée d’ouverture (N- salle M510)*
Centre de conférence Gelber, 5151 Chemin Côte-Ste-Catherine (métro Côte-Ste-Catherine)
- Mot de bienvenue par M. Callixte Kabayiza, Président de Page-Rwanda
- Professeur Frank Chalk (Université Concordia):Survivre à un génocide: perspective historique
- M. Théodore Simburudali (Président d’Ibuka): Conditions de survie des rescapés vivant au Rwanda
- Professeur Bruce Broomhall (UQAM): Génocide et Justice: procédures nationales à l’extérieur du Rwanda, basées sur la compétence universelle
- Période de questions.
20 Mars: Impacts psychosociaux des violences collectives sur les générations
Centre de conférence Gelber, 5151 Chemin Côte-Ste-Catherine (métro Côte-Ste-Catherine)
9h00-10h30 (Salle R510)
- Professeur Françoise Sironi (Université Paris VIII): La Psychopathologie géopolitique
- M. Théodore Simburudali: L’idéologie du génocide
- Mme Domitilla Mukantaganzwa (Secétaire exécutive des Juridictions Gacaca):
La Commission nationale de lutte contre le génocide
- Période de questions
10h30: Pause café
10h45-12h15:
- M. Callixte Kabayiza (Psychologue) et Professeur Emmanuel Habimana (UQTR):
Le suicide chez les orphelins du génocide
- M. Sidney Zoltac (survivant de l’Holocauste; président du comité des réclamations pour les victimes):
Les séquelles à long terme de l’Holocauste sur les survivants
- Professeur Michel Tousignant (UQAM): Histoire d’un ethnocide
- Période de questions
12h15: Pause-dîner
13h45-17h00:
- Prof Françoise Sironi: Spécificités des traumatismes intentionnels induits par la criminalité politique
- M. Théodore Simburudali: Situation des rescapés les plus vulnérables
- Mme Athanasie Mukarwego (rescapée du génocide): Expérience vécue d’une survivante du génocide
15h15: Pause
- Emmanuel Habimana, Callixte Kabayiza: La femme Tutsi comme outil de guerre durant le génocide.
- Mme Sandrine Ricci (professionnelle de recherche): Les enjeux de la reconstruction de soi de femmes rescapées dans le Rwanda de la réconciliation
- Questions et échange avec la participation de Domitilla Mukantaganzwa
21 Mars: Justice nationale rwandaise et justice internationale
UQAM : Pavillon De Sève - salle R510 (métro Berri-UQAM)
9h30-11h00 (salle DS-R510)
- Mme Domitilla Mukantaganzwa: Justice nationale rwandaise: tribunaux conventionnels et
juridictions Gacaca
- M. Jean-Bosco Iyakaremye(Doctorant Université Laval): Le Tribunal pénal international pour le
Rwanda (TPIR)et les juridictions nationales étrangères
- Mme Françoise Sironi: L'expertise psychologique des crimes contre l'Humanité
- Période des questions
11h00: Pause-café
11h15-12h30:
- M. Jean-Bosco Iyakaremye: Le négationnisme du génocide, ses différentes formes et ses conséquences
- Mme Berthe Kayitesi (Doctorante Université d’Ottawa) et M. Janvier Mujaribu.: Évolution du village
d'orphelins de Kimironko
- M. Théodore Simburudali: Le devoir de Mémoire
- Période des questions
Pause-dîner
14h00-16h00: La cohabitation des victimes et des bourreaux: le défi de la
cohésion sociale
- Mme Domitille Mukantaganzwa: La question des réparations au plan national et international
- M. Emmanuel Habimana: Le pardon sans demande de pardon
- M. Théodore Simburudali: Justice; sécurité des rescapés, réconciliation
- Période de questions
Clôture par Madame l’Ambassadrice du Rwanda au Canada
* Indications
Le DS est le pavillon De Sève, et le N est sciences de l’éducation. Le premier se trouve rue Ste-Catherine Sud-Est de Sanguinet, le deuxième rue St-Denis au Nord de René-Lévesque, tous deux accessibles par le métro Berri UQAM. Voir le site internet de l’UQAM pour carte et détails (Campus Central et Pavillon de l’Éducation).
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
at Concordia
presented by Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) and Department of Art History
6:00 pm: “They Called Me Mayer July”
Mayer Kirshenblatt taught himself to paint at the age
of 73. He did it for one reason: lest future generations
know more about how Jews died than how they lived.
His new multiple award-winning book is a remarkable
record of Jewish life in a Polish town before everything
changed. The text was assembled from forty years of
interviews conducted by his daughter, prominent
folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor at
New York University.
Through Mr. Kirshenblatt’s charming imagery we roam
streets and courtyards, witness details of daily life, and
meet the quirky individuals populating his hometown
of Apt: the pregnant hunchback standing under the
wedding canopy a few hours before giving birth; the
kheyder teacher caught in bed with the drummer's wife;
the cobbler's son who dressed in white pajamas every
day of his life to fool the Angel of Death; the shaved
corpse; a couple who celebrated their "black wedding"
in the cemetery during a cholera epidemic.
Now 92 years old, father and daughter will converse
informally on stage beneath large projected images of
Mayer’s paintings. This family collaboration—a moving
blend of memoir, oral history and artistic interpretation—
is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive
imagination, and an enduring representation
of a lost way of life.
2 public presentations
no admission charge
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
York Ampitheatre EV 1.605
Concordia University EV Building (ground floor)
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West
Guy metro
7:30 pm: Creating the Museum of the History
of Polish Jews
The roots of most North American Jewish families lie
in the territory that once was Poland, a vast area now
divided among Rzeczpospolita Polska, Ukraine,
Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Russia, Estonia, Slovakia,
Romania and Moldova.
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
will represent the thousand-year history of the world's
once-largest Jewish community at the very place they
lived. The permanent exhibition and associated
educational and cultural programs will be among the
most important and innovative of their kind. Located on
the site of the former Ghetto and facing the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising Memorial, the new museum will honor
those who perished by recreating a faithful glimpse of
their world, housed in a stunning, international-awardwinning
structure.
Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s illustrated lecture will discuss
the development of this multimedia narrative museum
and its ambitious mission. As a key element of the
postwar story and an expression of the new Poland, the
Museum of the History of Polish Jews will be a both a
place to begin exploring the civilization built by Polish
Jews and a forum—a place where one can expect to find
open debate and healing dialogue.
Above all, the museum and this lecture are meant to
catalyze fresh thinking and new behaviour.
http://cerev.concordia.ca
Mayer Kirshenblatt is a self-taught artist living and
working in Toronto. Born in Apt (Opatów in Polish) in
1916, he arrived in Canada in 1934 at the age of
seventeen, having completed the seven grades of
Polish public school and kheyder . After apprenticing to
an electrician and cobbler in Poland and working in a
Canadian sweatshop, he painted houses and eventually
opened his own wallpaper and paint store. He retired
early after a serious illness. While he was trying to
occupy himself by refinishing furniture, collecting clocks
and sailing his boat, his family begged him to paint life
in the Old Country. In 1990 he finally began to paint
everything he could remember about his hometown and
his childhood, creating more than 270 paintings to date.
Shtetl, a video documentary about Mayer Kirshenblatt’s
work, premiered in 1995. They Called Me Mayer July
received the 2008 Canadian Jewish Book Award
(Samuel and Rose Cohen Memorial Award in
Biography/Memoir), J.I. Segal Book Award, AAUP
award for book design, and was a finalist in three
categories for the National Jewish Book Award in the
USA. His work was featured in a traveling exhibition
organized by the Smithsonian Institution. Each painting
tells a story, together they make a world.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a professor of
Performance Studies at New York University. She
considers the collaboration with her father on his book
project a blessing and singular highlight of her career.
Her other publications include Image before My Eyes:
A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–
1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); Destination Culture:
Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; and The Art of Being
Jewish in Modern Times (edited with Jonathan Karp).
Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in
Poland before the Holocaust, to which she contributed,
coincides with the period of her father’s youth in Poland.
Her edited volume Writing a Modern Jewish History:
Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron recently won a
National Jewish Book Award. She currently heads the
exhibition development team for the new Museum of
the History of Polish Jews. The recipient of many
honors including Getty Research Institute and Hebrew
University resident fellowships and a Guggenheim
fellowship, in 2008 she was honored with the
Foundation for Jewish Culture Award for lifetime
achievement and the Mlotek Prize for Yiddish Language
and Culture. She and her artist husband Max Gimblett
live and work on New York City’s Lower East Side.
York Ampitheatre
Concordia University EV Building
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West
(NE corner Guy X Ste-Catherine)
Guy metro
There is an underground entrance to the EV Building.
Exit the metro platform at the Guy Street end.
At the top of the first escalator make a hard right.
Pass through the revolving doors.
You now are in the basement of the EV Building.
Go up the escalator.
The York Ampitheatre is on the ground floor,
ahead and to the left.
Ask at the security booth if you don’t see the sign. award-winning design: Museum of the History of Polish Jews/Architects Lahdelma-Mahlamäki
MIGS announces the launch (a reception) of the
Life Stories CURA - National Film Board's Digital Storytelling Partnership
this Friday at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, from
5:30-7:30.
We will also be celebrating two other online initiatives:
1. Since mid-September, the Life Stories project (based in our
department) has had a weekly radio programme on CIBL radio (Friday
afternoons at 1pm), where one guest is interviewed about their life story
for 50 minutes. The interviews are available online at
www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca.
2. The launch of our web site at www.lifestoriesmontreal.ca .
Those attending will be able to view some of the digital stories that are
part of new the "Life Stories Channel" on the National Film Board's
CITIZENShift and Paroles Citoyennes web sites. Those interviewed by our
project are invited to develop 3-6 minute digital stories about their
lives (we place them with a tech-savvy volunteer). We are doing the same
with the 470 interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Montreal area -
whose interviews are being digitized by the project. Our aim, is to share
interpretative power as much as possible.
"One of the challenges in oral history is to ensure that life stories are
not just archived, but get into the community, to create spaces of
collective engagement," said Emmanuelle Sonntag, director of educational
programming at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre and a project team
member. "These videos and other materials will be the basis of our
pedagogical efforts in the classroom, and beyond." Thus far, 140 people
have "graduated" from the Project's 7 hour course in oral history
training, ethics and methodology - our minimum requirement before going
out to interview.
If you have any questions, about the Life Stories project - never hesitate
to contact me.
Cheers, Steve
--
Steven High
Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire publique /Canada Research Chair
in Public History
Departement d'Histoire / Department of History
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, CANADA, H3G 1M8
web site: http://storytelling.concordia.ca
tel. (514)848-2424 x 2413 fax (514)848-4538
shigh@alcor.concordia.ca
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Library Building, Room LB 1042
The Genocide Convention. International Conference Commemorating its 60th Anniversary - Marburg; Frankfurt am Main 12/08
International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials, Prof. Dr. Christoph Safferling, LL.M. (LSE) and Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze 04.12.2008-06.12.2008, Marburg; Frankfurt am Main
Deadline: 01.11.2008
On 8 December 1948 the General Assembly of the UN adopted a Convention
establishing "Genocide" as a criminal norm. However, it took fifty years
until this crime was prosecuted before an international criminal
tribunal in the Akayesu Case before the ICTR. Even if the crime of
genocide is perceived of as the worst of all international crimes, its
application is anything but clear. In addition there is a certain
conflict between genocide as a criminal norm and the prohibition of
genocide as an obligation under public international law.
The 60th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention is a perfect time to
reflect on the origins of the Convention, its present difficulties and
the future prospects. The International Research and Documentation
Center for War Crimes Trials (ICWC) at the University of Marburg has
thus organized an international conference from 4 to 6 December 2008 in
Marburg and Frankfurt (Germany) to discuss the relevant issues
concerning the Genocide Convention. Keynote speakers will be (amongst
others): Antonio Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Hans-Peter Kaul, Leila Sadat,
William Schabas, Bruno Simma, Inés Weinberg de Roca, Andreas Zimmermann,
Moshe Zimmermann. As a special guest we are looking forward to welcoming
Whitney Harris, former Nuremberg US prosecutor.
The Participation Fee is 70 Euro for regular listeners and 35 Euro for
students. The fee is due upon the start of the conference and payable in
cash only. To qualify for student reduction please bring a valid student
ID.
For further information please visit our hompage
www.genocide-convention2008.de including information on registration.
We would welcome your interest in this event and are looking forward to
welcoming you in Marburg.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Venue: Marburg, Alte Universitaet, Lahntor 3, 35037 Marburg
17.00 - 19.00 Registration
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Venue: Marburg, Alte Universitaet, Lahntor 3, 35037 Marburg
08.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.30 Welcome Adresses
President of the University
Federal Minister of Justice
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies
10.30 - 12.30 The Emergence of the Genocide Convention, Chair: Michael
Kelly
Genocide in International Relations and International Law before 1948,
William Schabas
The United Nations and the Drafting of the Genocide Convention, Jost
Dülffer
Many fathers: Charging and Prosecuting Genocide at Nuremberg, John Q.
Barrett
Experiences from Nuremberg and Israel, Gabriel Bach / Whitney Harris
The Holocaust and the Genocide Convention, Herbert Reginbogin
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Genocide, the Genocide Convention and Genocide Trials
since 1948 in the historical perspective, Chair: Eckart Conze
Genocide and the Genocide Convention in International Politics
1948-1990, Theo Schiller
Genocide and the Genocide Convention in National Sociopolitical
Discussion, Lawrence Douglas
Genocide and the Genocide Convention in Israel, Moshe Zimmermann
War Crimes / Genocide Trials and "Vergangenheitspolitik" - the German
Case, Annette Weinke
16.00 - 16.30 Break
16.30 - 18.30 Punishing Genocide: Challenges in International Genocide
Trials, Chair: Morten Bergsmo
British Genocide Trials in Germany (Control Council Courts), Wolfgang
Form
The Rwandan Genocide: The ICTR Trials, Judge Inés Weinberg de Roca,
ICTR
The Jurisprudence on the Crime of Genocide of the Appeals Chambers of
the ICTY and ICTR, Matthias Schuster
The Cambodian Situation, David Cohen
The Two Notions of Genocide: Distinguishing Macro Phenomena and
Individual Misconduct, Stefan Kirsch
Friday, 5 December 2008
Venue: Marburg, Alte Universitaet,
Lahntor 3, 35037 Marburg
08.30 - 10.30 Genocide as a Criminal Norm: Legal Issues, Chair: Florian
Jessberger
The Special Intent Requirement, Christoph Safferling
Different Problems of Participating in Genocide, Henning Radtke
The Policy Element in Genocide, Antonio Cassese
The Protected Group Requirement in Genocide, Alicia Gil Gil
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 13.00 Genocide in Public International Law, Chair: Claus Kress
Genocide in International Relations and International Law before 1948,
William Schabas
The ICJ Decisions on Genocide and beyond, Leila Sadat
The Obligation to Prevent Genocide - towards a Generalized
Responsibility to Protect under International Law?, Andreas Zimmermann
The Dual Legal Regimes of International Responsibility for Genocide:
State Responsibility v. Individual Responsibility, Paola Gaeta
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Marburg and National Socialism - An Ordinary German Town
under the Nazi Regime: A Historic Tour, Albrecht Kirschner
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 18.00 The Future of the Genocide Convention, Chair: Georg
Witschel
The Dynamics of Conflict and the Genocide Convention, Ulrich Wagner
The Crime of all Crimes: Psychological and Criminal Aspects, Harald
Welzer
The ICC and Genocide, Judge Hans-Peter Kaul, ICC
Spreading the Deterrent Effect, Serge Brammertz
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Venue: Frankfurt, Haus Gallus,
Frankenallee 111, 60236 Frankfurt/Main
Shuttle service provided
10.00 - 10.45 Welcome Adresses
Mayor, City of Frankfurt
Minister of Justice of Hesse
10.45 - 11.15 Haus Gallus - The Auschwitz Trial at the Landgericht
Frankfurt and its Importance for the Prohibition of Genocide
11.30 - 12.15 Main Lecture: Sanctioning Genocide - International Law
under the Influence of the Genocide Convention, Judge Bruno Simma, ICJ
12.15 - 12.30 Endnote, Guenter Nooke, Federal Government Commissioner
for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Federal Foreign Office
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
SHOUT, Hillel Montreal, STAND, JLSA, in collaboration with McGill Center for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism present:
"Four Generations of Genocide, the Lost Lesson"
4 panelists:
Liz Balian- executive director of Armen Karo Armenian Student Association, 3rd generation of Armenian Genocide survivors.
Paul Herczeg - Holocaust survivor
Eloge Christian Butera - Rwanda survivor, McGill Law student
Justin Laku - Founder and president of Canadian Friends of Sudan
The Honorable Irwin Cotler, McGill Law Prof,
"The Lost Lesson"
Nov 11, 2008, 6pm at the Moot Court
Coffee and cake reception will follow.
Conférence Franchir les frontières 2008
Mardi 14 octobre
Discussion croisée : « Du Rwanda au Darfour : l'oeuvre des Casques bleus, la part des médias»
L'honorable Roméo A. Dallaire, lieutenant-général à la retraite et sénateur, s'entretient avec le journaliste François Bugingo
Le sénateur Roméo A. Dallaire est un ardent défenseur des droits de la personne. En 1994, le général Dallaire a commandé la Mission des Nations Unies pour l'assistance au Rwanda (MINUAR). Il a fait partie du Comité consultatif du Secrétaire des Nations Unies sur la prévention du génocide. François Bugingo, fils de parents réfugiés rwandais, journaliste, a couvert la plupart des grands conflits de la fin du XXe siècle et effectué de nombreuses missions pour défendre et promouvoir la liberté de presse. Nous vous invitons à une discussion croisée entre les deux hommes.
Pavillon Roger-Gaudry – Auditorium Ernest-Cormier (K-500)
19 h
GRATUIT (grâce à nos généreux donateurs)
Renseignements : Lorraine Moreau 514 343-6111, poste 0254, lorraine.moreau@umontreal.ca
Roméo Dallaire
L'honorable Roméo A. Dallaire, O.C., C.M.M., G.O.Q., C.S.M., C.D., lieutenant-général à la retraite des Forces armées canadiennes, sénateur et membre du Comité permanent des droits de la personne du Sénat. Il est l'auteur de J'ai serré la main du diable : La faillite de l'humanité au Rwanda, Prix littéraire du gouverneur général. Ce livre lui a également mérité plusieurs prix littéraires internationaux. Officier de l'ordre du Canada et grand officier de l'Ordre national du Québec, le général Dallaire a également reçu de nombreux prix dont le prix Aegis pour la prévention du génocide du Royaume-Uni et la Médaille Pearson pour la paix de l'Association canadienne pour les Nations Unies. Par ailleurs, plusieurs universités canadiennes et américaines lui ont décerné des doctorats honorifiques.
François Bugingo
François Bugingo, diplômé en droit (Burundi), est reporter, journaliste, animateur à la radio et à la télévision. Vice-président monde et président de la section canadienne de Reporters sans frontières, il écrit Africa mea : le Rwanda et la tragédie africaine (éditions Liber, Montréal, 1997), La mission au Rwanda : entretiens avec le général Tousignant (éditions Liber, Montréal, 1997) et a coscénarisé les documentaires Dalaï-lama, derrière le sourire et Trois jours d'humanité.
Concordia University cordially invites you to the Abitibi-Consolidated lecture on
"Global Health and Humanitarianism"
by Dr. James Orbinsky
Thursday, September 25 2008
7 PM
Henry F. Hall Building, Room H-110
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.,
Sir George William Campus, Montreal
VIP Cocktail Reception @ 9 PM
J.W. McConnell Building Atrium
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.,
Sir George William Campus, Montreal
RSVP by September 18, 2008
Online: alumni.concordia.ca
Phone: 514.848.2424 x 4397
Toll Free: 1.888.777.3330
Humanitarian Advocate and Past President of Doctors Without Borders, Dr. James Orbinski is a veteran of many of the world’s most disturbing and complex humanitarian emergencies. In 1999, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders.
A brilliant and mesmerizing orator, Orbinski will speak on “Global Health and Humanitarianism.” He offers a compelling look at the ravages of genocide and civil war, the role of humanitarianism, and conflicts that arise from combining humanitarian assistance with a political agenda.
Orbinski, an outspoken and passionate speaker, is deeply committed to the core principles of volunteerism and impartiality, and subscribes to the belief that everyone deserves both medical assistance and the recognition of his or her humanity.
The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence
(CEREV) presents:
an event Co-Sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
(MIGS)
http://cerev.concordia.ca
CEREV OCCASIONAL SPEAKER SERIES
Identity Formation in the Aftermath of Violence
with
Dr. Slawomir Kapralski
Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
“The Roma and the Holocaust:
Imagining Community through the Remembrance
of Trauma”
Wednesday, September 24 2008
5:30pm
EV 3.309
*Reception will follow
Dr. Slawomir Kapralski studied sociology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, Poland, where he received his MA and Ph.D. For thirteen years he has been associated
with the Central European University where he has been lecturing in its three campuses: Prague,
Warsaw, and Budapest. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bielefeld, the
University of Chicago, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Social Science Research Center
Berlin, and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. At present he is a Lecturer at
the Warsaw School of Social Psychology and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre
for Social Studies/Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in
Warsaw. Since the end of 1980s he has been involved in various research activities and
educational initiatives in the field of Polish-Jewish relations and among Roma communities of
East/Central Europe. His research interests focus on nationalism, ethnicity and identity,
collective memory, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and the Roma and Sinti in Europe. He is a
member of the Gypsy Lore Society and of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence
(CEREV) presents:
an event Co-Sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights
Studies (MIGS)
http://cerev.concordia.ca
CEREV OCCASIONAL SPEAKER SERIES
Identity Formation in the Aftermath of Violence
with
Dr. Carol Kidron
University of Haifa, Israel
“Silent Legacies of Genocide:
A Comparative Study of Cambodian Canadian and
Israeli Holocaust Trauma Descendant
Memory Work”
Monday, September 15 2008
5:30pm
EV 3.309
1515 St. Catherine W. Room 3.309 (third floor)
*Reception will follow
Carol A. Kidron is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology-Anthropology at Haifa University,
Israel. Her publications include “Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived Presence of the Past
in the Everyday Lives of Holocaust Trauma Descendants in Israel” published in Current Anthropology
(in press), “The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: A Journey across the Continuum of Paradox” published
in Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2006) and “Surviving a Distant Past:
A Case Study of the Cultural Construction of Trauma Descendant Identity” published in Ethos
(2003). Kidron has undertaken ethnographic work with Holocaust trauma descendants in Israel and
children of Cambodian genocide survivors in Canada. Her other research interests include: Cultural
critique of therapeutic discourse, illness constructs, personal and collective memory-identity-work,
Psychological Anthropology and Symbolic Anthropology.
The Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence
(CEREV) presents:
an event Co-Sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
(MIGS)
http://cerev.concordia.ca
CEREV WORKSHOP
with
Dr. Carol Kidron
University of Haifa, Israel
“Autoethnography and the Traumatized Other:
Methodological Dilemmas in Memory's Wake”
Wednesday, September 17 2008
5:30pm
LB 1042.03
1400 De Maisonneuve W. Room LB 1042.03 (tenth floor)
Carol A. Kidron is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology-Anthropology at Haifa
University, Israel. Her publications include “Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived
Presence of the Past in the Everyday Lives of Holocaust Trauma Descendants in Israel”
published in Current Anthropology (in press), “The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: A Journey
across the Continuum of Paradox” published in Semiotica: Journal of the International Association
for Semiotic Studies (2006) and “Surviving a Distant Past: A Case Study of the Cultural
Construction of Trauma Descendant Identity” published in Ethos (2003). Kidron has
undertaken ethnographic work with Holocaust trauma descendants in Israel and children of
Cambodian genocide survivors in Canada. Her other research interests include: Cultural
critique of therapeutic discourse, illness constructs, personal and collective memory-identitywork,
Psychological Anthropology and Symbolic Anthropology.
In Memory of Rafal Lemkin, on the 60. Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide
Warsaw, 18–19 September 2008
Belweder Palace, 56 Belwederska Street
18th September, Thursday 14.00
The ceremony to unveil the commemorative plaque in the house where Rafal Lemkin lived and worked until September 1939, 6 Kredytowa Street, Warsaw
14.30–15.00 Registration
15.00 Introduction:
Dr. Slawomir Debski (Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs)
Dr. Andrzej Kremer (Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland)
15.15-16.00 Keynote Speech:
Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Former Foreign Minister of Poland)
The Lemkin Concept: an Old Crime and the New Definition
16.00-16.15 Coffee Break
16.15-17.45 Session 1: Rafal Lemkin’s Life and Heritage
Prof. Ryszard Szawlowski (Polish University Abroad)
Raphael Lemkin's Life Journey. From Creative Legal Scholar and Well-to-do Lawyer Until 1939 to Pinnacle of International Achievements During the Forties in the States, Ending Penniless Crusader in New York in the Fifties
Prof. Marek Kornat (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Raphael Lemkin's Formative Years and the Beginnings of International Career, 1900-1939
Dr. William Korey
Lemkin’s Passion: Origin, Development and Impact
Steven Leonard Jacobs (The University of Alabama)
The Human, the Humane, and the Humanitarian: Their Implications and Consequences in Lemkin's Work on Genocide
Moderator: Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Former Foreign Minister of Poland)
Discussion
17.45-18.00 Coffee Break
18.00-19.15 Session 2: Rafal Lemkin's Ideas of Humanization of International Relations
Jean-Louis Panné (Editions Gallimard, Paris)
Confrontation de deux approches du Génocide des juifs: Raul Hilberg et Rafael Lemkin
Stéphane Courtois (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
Le concept de Génocide de classe est-il Pertinent?
Jim Fussell (Director of Prevent Genocide International)
Raphael Lemkin's Evolution from Scholar to Activist
Moderator: Prof. Gunnar Heinsohn (Raphael–Lemkin–Institute for Comparative Genocide Research, Bremen)
Discussion
19th September, Friday
9.30- 11.15 Session 1: Genocide in the Historical Perspective
Prof. Claudia Kraft (University of Erfurt)
Raphael Lemkin and the Debates about the Genocide Convention in Early Post-War Germany
Dr. Anton Weiss-Wendt (The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities)
The Soviet Union and the Genocide Convention: An Exercise in Cold War Politics
Dr. Samuel Totten (University of Arkansas)
The United States' Recalcitrance to Ratifying the UNCG
Prof. Roman Serbyn (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Holodomor: the History and the Politics of the Ukrainian Genocide
Moderator: Dr. Slawomir Debski (Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs)
Discussion
11.15-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.15 Session 2: The Heritage of the Rafal Lemkin’s Concept of Genocide in the Contemporary Conflicts and International Criminal Courts’ Activity
Prof. William A. Schabas (Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, former member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
Lemkin, Srebrenica and Darfur
Nobuo Hayashi (Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)/Visiting Professor, International University of Japan)
The 'G-word': The Politics of Stigma in International Criminal Justice
Daphna Shraga (Principal Legal Officer, Office of the Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, UN)
The Security Council and the Obligation 'to Prevent and Punish' Genocide
Moderator: Prof. Zdzislaw Kedzia (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Discussion
13.15-14.15 Lunch
14.15-16.00 Session 3: The Future of the „Responsibility to Protect” Concept
Prof. Zdzislaw Kedzia (Adam Mickiewicz University)
The Responsibility to Protect: Political Strength vs. Legal Fragility
Dr. Anastase Shyaka (Director of the Centre for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda)
The Responsibility to Protect – Experience from Rwanda
Blaise Misztal (National Security Initiative)
Protect, but From What?: On the (Im)Moral Theory of Genocide
Moderator: Prof. Roman Kuzniar (University of Warsaw)
Discussion
16.00-16.10 Closing Remarks:
Dr. Slawomir Debski (Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs)
A Workshop with
Jaques Sémelin
Understanding Massacre?
Exploring the genocidal process:
the Holocaust, Rwanda and Bosnia
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
10 a.m.-12 p.m.
LB-1014, McConnell building
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Concordia University 1400 de Maisonneuve West (Guy-Concordia metro)
Information: 514.277.1350
Dr. Jaques Sémelin is a professor at Science Po., Paris, and a senior researcher at the Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI/CNRS). He is the author of Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genociede (Hurst, 2007), and Unarmed Against Hitler: Civil Resistance in Europe, 1939-1943 (Praeger, 1994). He presently directs an on-line encyclopaedia of massacres and genocides, to be launched in 2008.
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The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University invites you to attend a lecture by
Dr. Smail Cekic
Professor of History at the University of Sarajevo and is the Director of Sarajevo University's Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law
Bosnia: The Right to the Truth, the Right to a Future
TUESDAY, APRIL 1st, 2008
12:00 TO 13:30 PM
ROOM LB-1014/ LIBRARY BUILDING
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE W., MONTREAL
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Prof. Dr. Smail Cekic is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of genocide and crimes against humanity. He is the world's leading authority on Bosnia's military history and the recent genocide, and is informally hailed as "Bosnia's Wiesenthal". Prof. Dr. Cekic is a full-time professor of history at the University of Sarajevo and is the Director of Sarajevo University's Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law. He is the author of several books, a prolific academic contributor and a referee on several academic journals. He has chaired several international conferences on genocide, was an active contributor and witness at The Hague's International Tribunal for War Crimes, and is a member of the World Society of Victimology and International Association of Genocide Scholars.
VERNISSAGE - IMAGES FROM RWANDA
Paintings by Veronika Szkudlarek
OPENING: JANUARY 31 @ 5:30
(the show will run until February 24th)
Gallery Quartier Libre - 4289 Notre Dame ouest - 514-933-0101
All proceeds will go to donating cows, goats and mosquito nets to Rwandan communities.
For more information, please click here.
Kjell Anderson, Founder of Shared Humanity
Silencing Violence:
Incitement to Hate and the Prevention of Gross Human Rights Violations
FRIDAY, 18 JANUARY 2008
12:30 TO 14:00 PM
ROOM LB-1014/ LIBRARY BUILDING
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE W., MONTREAL
The founder of Shared Humanity, Kjell Føllingstad Anderson, has an LL.M in the International and European Protection of Human Rights from Utrecht University (The Netherlands), as well as an M.A. in International Affairs (specialising in International Conflict Analysis and Resolution) from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He has worked as a program coordinator at FACT-Rwanda (Forum des Activistes Contre la Torture, a Rwandan human rights NGO), as a conflict analyst for the Country Indicators in Foreign Policy (CIFP) project, and as a program officer at the Organization of American States; he also participated (as part of a law clinic) in a case before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. At his various jobs, Anderson has developed and implemented projects funded by, or in partnership with, the European Commission, the Commonwealth, the Government of Canada, the Government of South Africa, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), CORDAID, CARE, and other organisations. He is currently a PhD student at the National University of Ireland where, under the joint supervision of William Schabas and Frank Chalk, he is researching the causes and prevention of genocide and persecutory violence.
For more information on this presentation, click here
For more information on Shared Humanity, go to: http://www.sharedhumanity.org/
Carol Berger, PhD Candidate at Oxford University
on
The Role of Ethnography in Understanding Conflict and Ethnicised Violence in Sudan:
Why George Clooney Needs to Meet an Anthropologist.
WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2008
12:00 TO 13:30 PM
ROOM LB-1014/ LIBRARY BUILDING
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE W., MONTREAL
Carol Berger is completing a doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has carried out multi-sited fieldwork, predominantly in East Africa but also in western Canada, in support of her thesis, titled, "Africa's Red Army: The Systemic Use of Youth Soldiers in the Sudan People's Liberation Army, 1984-2005." She is a Commonwealth Scholar and the current president of the Oxford University Anthropological Society.
Carol is the holder of a Master's in Anthropology from the University of Alberta (2001). From 1981 to 1993, she was a foreign correspondent based in Sudan (1982-1987), covering the Horn of Africa, and then Egypt (1987-1993), reporting throughout the Middle East, for mostly UK-based media, including the BBC World Service, The Economist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
KATHERINE REYES, UNITED NATIONS MISSION TO SUDAN
ON THE GROUND IN DARFUR: NEW REALITIES
FRIDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2007
12:00 TO 13:30 PM
ROOM LB-1014/ LIBRARY BUILDING
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
1400 DE MAISONNEUVE W., MONTREAL
Katherine Reyes is currently based in South Darfur with the United Nations Mission to Sudan
where her main focus is on political reporting on rebel groups, internally displaced persons (IDPs), tribal conflict,
and preparations for the Hybrid force. Reyes has worked with the United Nations in southern Sudan and Burundi,
and in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
She has completed a MSc in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and
Political Science, and a Bachelors of Journalism at Carleton University.
A TALK BY AKBAR GANJI
IRAN, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE NUCLEAR QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE CONNECTIONS?
Location: New Chancellor Day Hall, Moot Court (Room 100).
The address is: 3644, Peel Street, H3A 1W9. A map is also available at: http://www.mcgill.ca/maps/?Building=122
Time: Thursday, November 22nd, 16:30-18:00.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE EVENT WILL START AT SHARPLY 4:30 PM
Chair: Professor Payam Akhavan
Introductory Remarks: The Hon. Jason Kenney
Respondent: The Hon. Irwin Cotler
Akbar Ganji is an emblematic figure of dissent in Iran. Well-known journalist and author, Akbar Ganji spent six years in prison for exposing rights abuses committed by Iran's fundamentalist regime. The charges stemmed from a series of investigative articles exposing the complicity of then President Rafsanjani and other leading members of the conservative clergy in the murders of political dissidents and intellectuals in 1998. During his time in prison, Mr. Ganji endured solitary confinement and went on a hunger strike that lasted from May to August 2005. He also continued to write, producing a series of influential political manifestos and open letters calling for Iran's secularization and the establishment of democracy through mass civil disobedience. The works were smuggled out of Evin prison and published on the Internet. Mr. Ganji's work has appeared in pro-democracy newspapers across Iran, most of which the government has since shut down. He has also written many books, including the bestselling The Dungeon of Ghosts (1999) and The Red Eminence and The Grey Eminence (2000).
Primo Levi: témoin et écrivain
Colloque
Ce colloque sur Primo Levi, chimiste et écrivain italien, rescapé des camps d'extermination nazis, commémore le 20e anniversaire de sa disparition. À cette fin, nous avons réuni des invités d¹Italie, de France, du Québec et du Canada qui présenteront des communications axées sur deux thèmes. Le premier portera sur l’itinéraire biographique de Primo Levi, son oeuvre et sa réception. Le second thème, reprenant l’une des constatations de Levi «C'est arrivé, cela peut donc arriver de nouveau, tel est le noyau de ce que nous avons à dire. Cela peut arriver, et partout », traitera de ses réflexions sur la Shoah, des questions du témoignage et de la mémoire ainsi que de leur intérêt pour la compré-hension d’autres génocides (arménien et rwandais) et des productions cinémato-graphiques et littéraires contemporaines. Ce colloque permettra ainsi de resituer la contribution de Levi quant aux enjeux touchant la violence politique qui continue de marquer les sociétés actuelles.
24 et 25 novembre, 2007
Salle DR-200, Pavillon Athanase-David
Université du Québec à Montréal
Entrée: 315 Sainte Catherine Est ( Près de Saint Denis)
Métro Berri-UQAM
Pour voir le programme/To see the programme: http://cerium.ca/IMG/doc/Colloque_Primo_Levi.doc
MIGS CO-SPONSORS BOOK LAUNCH
November 26, 2007
Book launch, lecture and FILM.
Carolyn Gammon and Dr. Christiane Hemker on their new book, Johanna Krause, Twice Persecuted, Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany.
12:00- 13:30. Room H-1120, Hall Bldg., Concordia University
About the Authors
Carolyn Gammon studied at the University of New Brunswick and at Concordia University. From 1992-95, she was a Lecturer at the Free University, Berlin. Her poetry, prose, and essays have appeared in anthologies in North America and Europe. Her recent book is a compliment her work with Holocaust survivors, their families and other visitors who come to Germany to both confront the past and gain a current impression.
Dr. Christiane Hemker has lived in Dresden since 1993. She is the state archaeologist for Saxony and has widely published in the field of archaeology. Her volunteer work with union and social politics focuses on women’s rights.
To read more about the book, click here.
RABBI ARIK ASCHERMAN
November 19th, 2007
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights,
“Competing Visions of Judaism and Human Rights in the Middle East Conflict.”
A MIGS public workshop from 11:00 – 12:30 in Room LB-1014, Library Bldg.,
1400 De Maisonneuve West, Concordia University.
RABBI ARIK ASCHERMAN is Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel, the only rabbinic organization in the country dedicated to human rights. An American-born Harvard graduate, Rabbi Ascherman moved to Israel in 1993. His current human rights work includes defending Palestinians facing home demolitions and land seizures in the West Bank. Rabbi Ascherman has devoted his life to building a state that embodies the Jewish values of justice, compassion and equality for all.
TALKS BY PROF. MICHAEL ROTHBERG, 15-16 NOVEMBER 2007
November 15, 2007
Prof. Michael Rothberg,
"Multidirectional Memory:
Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization"
20:00-22:00, Room H-762, Hall Building, Concordia University
November 16, 2007
Prof. Michael Rothberg,
A Discussion. "Around 1961: Truth, Torture, Testimony,"
A presentation related to Prof. Rothberg's article, "Between Auschwitz and Algeria," in the journal Critical Inquiry, 33 (Autumn 2006): 158-184.
10:00-11:30, Room LB-1014, Library Bldg., 1400 De Maisonneuve West, Concordia University
Michael Rothberg is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000) and co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). He has published many articles on American, French, and German literature, film, and critical theory and is currently completing a book entitled Mutlidirectional Memory: The Holocaust, Decolonization, and the Legacies of Violence.
For Prof. Rothberg's homepage, click here.
GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
An Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights
October 11th to 13th 2007
For more information visit http://efchr.mcgill.ca/
CONFERENCE
Preventing Human Rights Violations: the Role of Transitional Justice
Mr. Juan Mendez
President of the International Center for Transitional Justice
Ex-special adviser to the Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide
and
Ex-president of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights
Friday, 8 June 2007
2:00 P.M.
Salle DS-1950
Pavillion J-A-De Sève
320, rue Sainte-Catherine Est
Montréal
Métro Berri-UQAM
The Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Mr. René Côté and the Director of the Department of Juridical Sciences, Mr. Thierry Bourgoignie, coordially invite you to the Conference Lecture given by Mr. Juan Mendez.
This Conference is organized in collaboration with the Clinique internationale de défense des droits humains (CIDDHU) and the Centre d'études sur le droit international et la mondialisation (CEDIM) of the Université de Montréal (UDM).
A cocktail will be served
RSVP before 5 June 2007
Limited Space
Contact Services des communications de l'UQAM
514 987 3111
grant.theresa@uqam.ca
Time is Up: Protect Darfur Now!
Concert and Rally in Montréal
MIGS WORKSHOP
March 30, 2007
12:00 to 13:30 P.M.
"Internal Refugees or Unlucky Citizens: A Conceptual and Practical Examination of Internal Displacement"
(To access the paper in Word, click on the title of the paper, above)
Sarah Meyer, Sauvé Scholar
McGill University
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Sarah Meyer has a BA (Hons) in History and Politics from Monash University, Australia, and an MPhil in Development Studies with Distinction from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her interest in refugee-related issues emerges from community-based work in Melbourne, Australia with asylum detainees and Afghani temporary protection visa holders. Her research has focused on protracted refugee situations, particularly of Sudanese refugees in Uganda, and she conducted research at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Geneva [UNHCR], in Kampala and in two refugee settlements in Uganda for her thesis in 2005, which was published as a UNHCR New Issues Working Paper. She taught at the 2006 Refugee Studies Centre Summer School at the University of Oxford, and attended UNHCR Executive Committee Meetings as a delegate for the Refugee Studies Centre. As a 2006-2007 Sauvé Scholar at McGill University, she is conducting research on rights-based approaches to refugee aid and development and international responses to internal displacement. She has recently undertaken a research project for a refugee lobby group, A Just Australia, on complementary protection and off-shore processing of refugees in Australia. Having studied conflict, crisis and intervention, she is currently involved in strategy and planning for research projects through the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies and Senator Romeo Dallaire.
MIGS WORKSHOP
THURSDAY
22 March 2007
11:30-13:00
"THE MEDIA AND THE RWANDA GENOCIDE"
Prof. Allan Thompson
School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
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ALLAN THOMPSON is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication who joined the faculty at Carleton in 2003 after spending 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star, Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper.
He worked for ten years as a correspondent for The Star on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and also undertook reporting assignments for The Star in such places as Rwanda, Zaire, Sierra Leone and Kazakhstan. He still writes a weekly column for The Star.
His first book, an edited collection called The Media and the Rwanda Genocide, has just been published by Pluto Press, Fountain Publishers and the International Development Research Centre.
Allan also established the Rwanda Initiative, a media capacity-building project in Rwanda that includes a partnership between Carleton's journalism school and its counterpart in Rwanda.
You are cordially invited to the book launch of
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Edited by Allan Thompson
Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 18:00
Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 McGill College Avenue (corner of Sherbrooke Street)
Meet Allan Thompson who will briefly explain his views that the media, both domestic and international, share some of the blame for the Rwanda genocide.
Frank Chalk, director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia Univeristy, and a contributor to the book, will also participate.
Organized in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
www.idrc.ca/rwandagenocide
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Harvey Shulman Memorial Lecture
"Friendship and its Discontent: Germans, Jews and the Enlightenment"
Prof. Edward Breuer
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
March 15, 2007
20:30 P.M.
Hall Building, Room H-937
Sir George Williams Campus
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
(514) 848-2424 ext. 2565
Edward Breuer, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was born and raised in Montréal and did his B.A., With Distinction in Liberal Arts College and the Department of Religion (Judaic Studies), Concordia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Post-Biblical Jewish History and Literature at Harvard University. His The Limts of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture was published by Harvard University Press in 1996, and Moses Mendelssohn on Judaism: The Hebrew Writings will be brought out by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is currently completing his next book, From Enlightenment to Orthodoxy: The Jewish Cultures of Nineteenth-Century Europe.
Symposium sponsored by the Concordia University Armenian Student Association and Armen Karo Student Association
March 16, 2007
18:30 to 21:30 P.M.
Hall Building, Room H-620
Sir George Williams Campus
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Contemporary Issues: Human Rights & Genocide Studies
Panelists: Prof. Meir Amor (Sociology, Concordia University) on pan Turkism, Pan Germanism
Erin Jessee (PhD. Humanities, Concordia University) - Forensic Archaelogy [Turkish denialism & Turkish falsifications of material & human remains from the 1915 period]
Lerna Ekmekcioglu (NYU) - "Turning Into Diaspora - 19 January 2007, Istanbul: Turkish Armenians Facing the (Re)death of Their Ancestors" [will present the existential insecurities of Istanbul Armenians in relation to Dink's murder and how it affected her- both as an Armenian (parent) from Istanbul and a scholar working on the history of this community right after the Genocide and will also examine the various Turkish responses to the murder of Hrant Dink].
Prof. Bruce Bruce Broomhall (Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalization, UQAM) on Cambodia l'Abbe Callixte Kabayiza (President, PAGE)
Jean Bosco Iyakaremye (PAGE) on Rwanda
About the panelists: Meir Amor is an Assistant Professor, Sociology, Concordia University. He has obtained his Doctorate at the University of Toronto. Dr. Amor researches and teaches the interdependencies and interconnectedness of status equalization, politics of inclusion and exclusion, and violence in a historical and a comparative frame of analysis. His research explores the contradictory tendencies created by citizenship and racialization, processes that play a crucial role in defining modernity, the modern state, nation and the nation-state. By focusing on the recurrent emergence of violent eruptions, his work represents a less conventional approach. Recent publications include: Status Equalization and Racial Violence: A Comparative Historical Approach; Violent Ethnocentrism: Revisiting the Economic Interpretation Of the Expulsion of Ugandan Asians; Oppression, Mass Violence and State Persecution: some neglected considerations; Israeli Citizenship: From Multi-Culturalism to Inter-Culturalism.
Bruce Broomhall is a professor of international criminal law as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalization at the Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM). Prior to this, Dr. Broomhall was Senior Legal Officer for International Justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Institute, Based in Budapest, Hungary. In that capacity, he worked to promote the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the documentation of international crimes and the mobilization of civil society by coordinating advocacy, training, research and other types of collaboration in Cambodia, the Caucasus, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Previously, as Director of the International Justice Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, he was involved in promoting universal jurisdiction and the adoption of the Rome Statute, and was actively engaged on the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the ICC to ensure respect for the Court's effectiveness during negotiation of its Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crime. In 2003, Oxford University Press published his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.
Instead of François Bugingo who is a Montreal writer and journalist of Rwandan heritage who speaks of the silence of the world when the Genocide in Rwanda could have been prevented and believes in bearing witness. For him, "Parler du génocide ne réveille pas les morts mais éveille les vivants!", we're having Jean Bosco Iyakaremye from PAGE, regroupant les Parents et Amis des Victimes du Genocide des Tutsi du Rwanda and the President of PAGE-RWANDA Monsieur l'Abbe Callixte Kabayiza http://www.page-rwanda.ca/index.html
Erin Jessee is a Doctoral candidate in Humanities at Concordia University. She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships including a Fulbright Fellowship. Erin Jessee's M.A. was obtained at Simon Fraser University in Forensic archaeology in 2003. The title of her thesis was.-Exhuming Conflict: Some Recommendations for the Creation of a Series of Experimental Mass Grave and Mass Grave-Related Test Sitesand examined how best to envisage a series of experimental models for the replication of mass grave and mass grave-related sites. It arises from the realization that the number and severity of armed conflicts in the world are increasing and so, the need for forensic bio-archaeologists is on the rise in order to recover and interpret most effectively the physical evidence and context of the resulting mass gravesites in terms of prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Particular attention is paid to the historical background to forensic investigations of mass graves in relation to the simultaneous development of international humanitarian law, including case studies of either war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide from 1915 to the present.
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is a PhD candidate in the joint PhD program of the Department of History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies at New York University. The working title of her dissertation is 'Feminists and Nationkeeping: Armenians of Istanbul in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey.' Lerna Ekmekçioðlu was born in Istanbul in 1979. She graduated from the Sociology Department of Bogazici University in Istanbul. In additiong to her published articles and various paper presentations, she has recently co-edited a volume in Turkish about the history of Turkish Armenian women (Bir Adalet Feryadý: Osmalý'dan Cumhuriyet'e Beþ Ermeni Feminist Yazar (1862-1933) [A Cry For Justice: Five Armenian Feminist Writers from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1862-1933)], Aras Publishing House, Istanbul.
MIGS WORKSHOP
March 9, 2007
12:00 to 13:30 P.M.
“To the Last Seed: Atrocity Crimes and the Genocidal Continuum in Guatemala, 1978-1984”
Marc Drouin , M.A.
Concordia University
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Following extended stays in Central America and Northern Canada, including four years in Guatemala as a human rights observer, Marc recently completed his M.A. in History at Concordia. His graduate research was based on first-person accounts of human rights violations perpetrated by Guatemalan security forces in the indigenous highlands in 1981 and 1982. Interested in such issues as transitional justice and the prosecution of atrocity crimes in Latin America, he is now furthering his studies at the doctoral level at l'Université de Montréal.
A CRISIS BEFORE OUR EYES
DARFUR
Speakers
"Darfur- Another Failure of the International Community?"
Dr. Peter Leuprecht
Professor, Former Dean of McGill Law School,
Director of Montreal Institute of International Studies
"The Genocide, the Human Right Abuses and Humanitarian Needs in Darfur"
Dr. Baroudi Fashir
"Rape and Violence against Women in Darfur"
Tragi Mustafa
Darfurian refugee, Activist
Executive director of the Darfur Association of Canada
and a member of Canadians against Slavery and Torture in Sudan
"Reading Sudan Government Radio: Darfur and the International Community"
Dr. Frank Chalk
Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Concordia University
Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS)
March 9, 2007
17:30 to 20:00 P.M.
Moot Court, Chancellor Day Hall, Faculty of Law
3644 Peel Street, corner of Dr. Penfield
The Zoryan Institute in collaboration with the Armenian Student Associations of Montréal present
A Public Lecture by the Author of
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akcam
February 16, 2007
17:00 P.M.
Hosted by the Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism of McGill University and the Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies of Concordia University
Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street, corner
of Dr. Penfield
MIGS WORKSHOP
February 9, 2007
12:00 to 13:30 P.M.
"A 'Time When Principles Make the Best Politics?' The U.S. Response to the Genocide in East Pakistan"
Richard Pilkington, M.A.
Concordia University
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Richard Pilkington is a MIGS researcher, who completed his MA in History, at Concordia, during 2006. His thesis analyzed the response of the Nixon-Kissinger Administration to the atrocities perpetrated by Islamabad, in 1971, as East Pakistan struggled to establish its independence as Bangladesh. His research highlighted the deep personal involvements of the President and his National Security Adviser in determining US policy. Richard has previously led a MIGS workshop entitled 'Zunghars', which discussed issues raised in his published article concerning the 18th-century extermination, by the Qing, of this eponymous Central Asian nomadic people.
WHY KOSOVO AND NOT DARFUR- A panel discussion on humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
February 5, 2007
16:30 P.M.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Human Rights Working Group
The Hon. Bill Graham, former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Canada, will join Professor Catherine Lu, Department of Political Science, Professor Payam Akhavan, Faculty of Law and René Provost, Faculty of Law, for this panel discussion.
Moot Court
McGill Faculty of Law
3644 Peel Street
Montréal, Québec
"Towards A Culture Of Human Rights in Iran"
Dr.Payam Akhavan, Faculty of Law, McGill University
February 6, 2007
16:00 P.M.
Concordia University-Hall Building
7th Floor - H-767.
Dr. Akhavan has served as the Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (1994-2000), the first person to hold that position. He has also served as Special Advisor to the United Nations in Cambodia , Guatemala , East Timor, and Rwanda , and represented sovereigns before international courts and tribunals. He is the author of a major report to the UN on the mandate of the Special Advisor to the Secy.-General of the UN on the Prevention of Genocide. He was previously appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto , Yale Law School , and Leiden University in the Netherlands . He has published numerous articles on international law and human rights in leading scholarly journals.
Prof. Akhavan's lecture will be followed by wine and cheese.
MIGS WORKSHOP
January 26, 2007
12:00 to 13:30 P.M.
Prosecuting International Crimes before the International Criminal Court: The Difficult Road from Rhetoric to the Rule of Law
Bruce Broomhall
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Department of Law
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Bruce Broomhall (Ph.D., King’s College London School of Law) is a professor of international criminal law as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of International Law and Globalization at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Prior to this, Dr. Broomhall was Senior Legal Officer for International Justice at the Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Institute, based in Budapest, Hungary. In that capacity, he worked to promote the ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the documentation of international crimes and the mobilization of civil society by coordinating advocacy, training, research and other types of collaboration in Cambodia, the Caucasus, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Previously, as Director of the International Justice Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, he was involved in promoting universal jurisdiction and the adoption of the Rome Statute, and was actively engaged on the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the ICC to ensure respect for the Court’s effectiveness during negotiation of its Rules of Procedure and Evidence and Elements of Crime. In 2003, Oxford University Press published his book International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law.
SPECIAL FORUM
A CONVERSATION WITH IRWIN COTLER
"Human Rights in the 21st Century: The Legacy of Raoul Wallenberg"
Wednesday January 17, 2007
16:00 to 17:00 P.M.
Room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall (NCDH)
Faculty of Law, McGill University
3661 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec
Sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Professor Irwin Cotler has a distinguished record of scholarship and advocacy in international human rights law issues. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Académie universelle des cultures, and was awarded the Justice Walter Tarnopolsky Memorial Medal, the Medal of the Bar of Montréal, and the Martin Luther King Jr Humanitarian Award. In 1999, Professor Cotler took a leave of absense from the Faculty of Law and was elected Member of Parliament for the federal constituency of Mount Royal. He was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 2003.
Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP)
Centre des droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique (CDPPJ)
Faculty of Law, McGill University
3661 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec
Email: humanrights@mcgill.ca
Website: www.mcgill.ca/humanrights
MIGS WORKSHOP
January 19, 2007
13:00 to 14:30 P.M.
The Tehran Holocaust Conference:
Iranian Aberration or Third World Trend?
William F.S. Miles
Northeastern University, Boston
ROOM LB-608
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Iran' s infamous "Holocaust Conference" gathering of last December 11-12 succeeded in drawing attention to the negationist commitment of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his coteries. But does it represent a wider movement of Holocaust denial in scholarly (or pseudo-scholarly) circles throughout the developing world? To the contrary: intellectual globalization of the last three decades has given rise to an indigenization of Shoah consciousness. Third World nations and societies that have experienced their own forms of genocidal violation during and after World War II have been gradually incorporating the Holocaust into their self-awareness: increasing numbers of intellectuals, scholars and writers from Latin America, Asia and Africa have been exposed to the scholarship and pedagogy that have arisen in the aftermath of Europe's mid-twentieth century experience with anti-Semitic genocide. Given the baggage of "Third World" ambivalence vis-à -vis Zionism (associated with lingering solidarity with the Palestinian worldview), this is a counterintuitive tendency that - the Tehran conference notwithstanding - challenges conventional perceptions of Third World indifference to the genocide of the Jews.
William F.S. Miles is professor of political science and the former Stotsky, Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also Adjunct Research Professor for International Studies at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University in Providence. As a specialist in former French colonies throughout the developing world, Miles has published six books and over forty scholarly articles and book chapters. Two more books Political Islam in West Africa (of which he is editor for Lynne Rienner Publishers) and Zion in the Desert (State University of New York Press) are in press. His work in the area of genocide studies has appeared in The Journal of Genocide Research; The Journal of Holocaust Education; The Chronicle of Higher Education; Midstream; and the Annals of Tourism Research. Prof. Miles' article in the forthcoming issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention is entitled «Labelling 'Genocide' in Sudan : A Constructionist Analysis of Darfur» In 2001 William Miles convened the first-ever international symposium on Third World Views of the Holocaust.
In Commemoration of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine,
the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Quebec Chapter,
Invites you to a special presentation entitled:
THE GARETH JONES DIARIES: HOW A WELSH JOURNALIST EXPOSED SOVIET UKRAINE'S FAMINE-GENOCIDE AND HIS TRAGIC FATE
featuring International Guest Speaker
NIGEL LINSAN COLLEY
Author, Independent Researcher from the United Kingdom and Great-Nephew of the Acclaimed Newspaper Journalist, Gareth Jones
Thursday, November 30, 2006
2:00 p.m.
The Faculty Club, McGill University
3450 McTavish
For further information please contact Prof. Y. Kelabay (514) 398-4972 or Z. Hrycenko-Luhova (514) 481-5871
Concordia University’s
CURA Life Histories project presents
A seminar and performance by
Dr. Henry Greenspan
psychologist, author and renowned playwright
from the University of Michigan
Monday, 4 December 2006
10 a.m. until 12 p.m.: A seminar entitled “Reinventing Testimony”
History Department, Concordia University, Webster Library Building
George Rudé Seminar Room, LB-608
7:30 p.m.: A one-person play entitled Remnants
At the Gelber Conference Center
5151 Côte-Ste-Catherine
(three blocs from métro Côte-Ste-Catherine)
Free admission
Dr. Greenspan’s play, Remnants, is based on over two decades of conversations and work with Holocaust survivors. The piece has won several awards, including the Attic Theater Center of Los Angeles New Plays Festival, the New Hope Performing Arts Festival, and several public radio awards. He is presently collaborating on a film and has recently published a book based on his play Remnants.
For more information contact Professor Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History (514) 848-2424, ext. 2413 or shigh@alcor.concordia.ca
These events are co-sponsored by the Cambodian Genocide Reconciliation Project, Centre d'histoire de Montréal, CIDIHCA, Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés, Communauté sépharade unifiée du Québec, Concordia University Department of History, Documentation Center of Cambodia, EQUITAS, Isangano, Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, Montréal Holocaust Memorial Center, PAGE-Rwanda, Tessri Duniya Theatre.
SHOUT, Hillel UQAM, l'Institut du Nouveau Monde, le Forum jeunesse de l'île de Montréal and the Newman Catholic Centre presented:
ELIE WIESEL
Building a Moral Society- The Urgency of Hope
A special Evening with Elie Wiesel- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor, distingushed professor and author
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Spectrum de Montréal
318, rue St-Catherine Ouest
Métro Place des Arts
Tickets Information: www.inm.qc.ca
Connecting Global Youth, Confronting Global Challenges: A conference on African development
Saturday, September 30, 2006, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Conference on African and International Development Sept. 30 - Oct. 1
Event type: Conferences & Lectures
Sponsored by: Forum on International Cooperation (FIC)
This is a conference for those who want to take action now to see a better tomorrow; for those who want to meet other motivated and engaged youth, to learn more about international development and to form the basis for international collaboration now and in the future in order to take positive, concrete and coordinated action to end the injustices and inequalities that abound in our present world.
Phone: (514) 582-8403
Location: SGW Campus, Room H - 110
Additional information
Contact: conference2006@globalfic.org
Visit: http://www.2006.globalfic.org
20 October 2006: Roland Marchal, "A Report from the Field: Darfur"
13 October 2006: Robert Calderisi, "What's Wrong with Africa?"
MIGS WORKSHOP, Friday, 24 March 2006, featured Dr. Payam Akhavan, presenting on "Has the UN Learned Any Lessons from Rwanda? The Mandate of the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide
Dr. Akhavan is the Maxwell Boulton Senior Fellow at the McGill University Faculty of Law. He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (1994-2000), the first person to hold that position. He has also served as Special Advisor to the United Nations in Cambodia, Guatemala, East Timor, and Rwanda, and represented sovereigns before international courts and tribunals. He is the author of a major report to the UN on the mandate of the Special Advisor to the Secy.-General of the UN on the Prevention of Genocide. He was previously appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Yale Law School, and Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has published numerous articles on international law and human rights in leading scholarly journals and was selected by the World Economic Forum to attend the Davos Forum in 2006 as a Young Global Leader.
MIGS WORKSHOP, Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 12:30-14:00, featured Dr. Charles Villa-Vincencio, presenting on "The New African Realism"
Dr.Charles Villa-Vincencio is Director of South Africa’s Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, former Research Director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Professor Emeritus of Theology at the University of Cape Town. In his presentation, he discussed the South African transition to democracy, and how reconciliation is fundamentally a communicative process, involving the discovery of ways of speaking to those who would be otherwise enemies. His presentation also focused on the relationship between the secular and religious aspects of the South African process of reconciliation.
Dr. Villa-Vincencio is the editor with Wilhelm Verwoerd of Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (London and Cape Town: Zed Press, 2000); the author of The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); and the editor with John W. de Gruchy of Apartheid is Heresy (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1983);
This MIGS Workshop was also sponsored by the Department of Communications and the Peace & Conflict Resolution Speakers Series of Concordia University. Dr. Villa-Vincencio was not able to make his airplane connection to Canada.
He spoke to us via a video connection
MIGS Workshop, 13 February 2006, 12:00 to 1:30 PM featured Dr. Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, and
Dr. Robert-Jan van Pelt, University Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, speaking on "Collaborative Authorship: Writing, Trust and Scholarship."
Professors Dwork and Van Pelt also presented a MIGS public lecture from 10:15 to 11:30 AM on 14 February 2006 on "Holocaust: A History, The Book We Wrote and the Books We Did Not."
Drs. Debórah Dwork and Robert-Jan van Pelt are the co-authors of the acclaimed books, Holocaust: A History (2002) and Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (1996). Dwork’s book, Children with A Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (1991), was the subject of a CBC documentary. Van Pelt was one of four internationally renowned historians who served as expert witnesses for the defense in the Irving-Lipstadt trial. He spearheaded the PBS documentary Nazi Designers of Death and appeared in Errol Morris’s movie, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter Jr. He is also the author of Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism (1993) and The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial (2001).
MIGS Workshop, 20 January 2006, 4:00-5:30 PM featured Dr. Carol McQueen speaking on "The UN’S Unheralded Successes: New Developments in Humanitarian Intervention." Click here for news coverage of her talk.
Dr. Carol McQueen, Rhodes Fellow, Ph.D. (Oxford, International Relations) has just published her important new book, Humanitarian Interventions and Safety Zones: Iraq, Bosnia and Rwanda (Palgrave, 2006) After graduating from Concordia’s Liberal Arts College and Department of History, she served as a political affairs officer with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. McQueen is now taking up new duties in Ottawa with the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building Group and its Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force. This event was sponsored by MIGS in cooperation with the Liberal Arts College and the Department of History.
MIGS Workshop, 11 November 2005, 12 Noon, featured Dr. Adam Jones speaking on "Gendercide in the Comparative Study of Genocide."
Dr. Adam Jones, Associate Research Fellow, Yale University Genocide Research Program discussed “Gendercide in the Comparative Study of Genocide" on Friday, 11 November 2005. Dr.Jones has published two books on the media and political transition and two edited volumes on genocide: Gendercide and Genocide (Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) and Genocide, War Crimes & the West (Zed Books, 2004). His textbook, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, will be published in 2006 by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. His writings on gender and international politics have appeared in Journal of Genocide Research, Review of International Studies, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Caribbean Studies, and other publications. (See his website, http://www.gendercide.org/ for details.) He is a member of the board of directors of the Gender Issues Education Foundation. You can access an article by Dr. Jones in which he laid out his basic argument in the Journal of Genocide Research by clicking on:"Gendercide and Genocide", Journal of Genocide Research, 2: 2 (June 2000): 185-211.
MIGS organized and co-sponsored
a conference on "Canada and the Darfur Crisis" on 1 November 2005
On 1 November 2005, MIGS, the Concordia Student Union, the Office of the President of Concordia University, the Faculty of Arts & Science, and other Concordia University sponsors hosted a one day conference on the Darfur situation for students from Concordia and other universities, as well as the interested public. Major Brent Beardsley and Detective Sgt. Debbie Bodkin presented keynote addressed in the opening morning session, with Major Beardsley discussing lessons learned and not learned from the Rwanda genocide, and Sgt. Bodkin reporting from the perspective of a crime investigator on her interviews with victims of crimes in the Darfur region as part of the study which formed the basis of the UN report on Darfur. Expert panels were presented on the following topics: the background to the Darfur crisis; the role of the Canadian media in alerting Canadians to ongoing crimes against humanity in Darfur; the options available to resolve the Darfur crisis; and Canadian student opportunities for urging solutions to the problems in Sudan. Analysts from the Dept. of National Defence, university researchers, editors, and student leaders will make panel presentations. The conference was free and took place at Concordia University’s downtown Montreal Sir George Williams campus. The public was invited. To link to the videos of each panel, click here.
For further information contact Prof. Frank Chalk, drfrank@alcor.concordia.ca
MIGS welcomed visiting researcher Khamboly Dy from the Documentation Center of Cambodia
MIGS is hosted a visitor from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (Phnom Penh) from
1 September to 18 November 2005. Mr. Khamboly Dy came to Concordia University to work with MIGS on the English version of a history of the Khmer Rouge years in Cambodia (1975-1978) for translation into Khmer and incorporation in Cambodian high school history textbooks. This is an urgent need. School texts in Cambodia virtually ignore the suffering of Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge, leaving students with little grasp of the stresses to which their families and their country were subjected. Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, laid the foundation for Khamboly Dy's visit during his visit to MIGS and his participation in the Concordia Peace and Conflict Resolution lecture series in February 2004. Youk Chhang's major public lecture at Concordia is available in video format on this site.
Prof. Kurt Jonassohn, Founding Co-Director of MIGS, presented the Inaugural Address of the Hubert Guindon Annual Lecture Series,
7 October 2005
In his lecture on "The Comparative Study of Genocides," Prof. Jonassohn asked: "How does one accout for acts of genocide?" In their attempt to answer this question, researchers have raised a number of issues over definitions, typologies, and explanatory models. In this presentation Professor Jonassohn discussed these issues and offered suggestions for future research.
Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2005.
Time: 17h00
Place: Cinema DeSève, Concordia Library Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
For further information on this and related events celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia, click here
MIGS sponsored a conference on Democratic Discourse in a Multicultural Society
MIGS and the Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University sponsored a day long conference on April 3, 2005 at Concordia University on "Democratic Discourse in A Multicultural Society." Over 70 persons attended the keynote address by Prof. Howard Adelman and the three panels--Dialogue on Campus; Media Responsibility; and Courage to Care. MIGS organized the conference in connection with the exhibition at Concordia's two campuses of "Visas for Life," a large photo exhibit telling the stories of courageous diplomats who rescued Jews and political dissidents from the Nazis. To view the complete conference program, the videos of the keynote address and all three sessions, as well as photos from the conference, please click on the web link above.
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