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January 20
(Law School Auditorium)
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Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
East Timor and the Media
(Co-sponsored by Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Linguistics, and the Schell Center for International Human Rights)
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January 27
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Genocide and Language
Alexander Laban Hinton, Anthropology, Rutgers University
High Modernism and Language in Democratic Kampuchea
Charles Mironko, Anthropology, Yale University
Ideologies of Race: From Difference to Death
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February 3
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Human Rights and Psychoanalysis
Thomas Keenan, Human Rights Project, Bard College
Donald Moss, M.D., Psychoanalyst, Editor of IMAGO
Under What Conditions is Death the Penalty?
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February 10
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Definitions of Genocide – Dilemmas and Implications
Eric Markusen, Sociology, Southwest State University
Thomas Cushman, Sociology, Wellesley College, Editor, Human Rights Review
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February 24
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Beyond the Law
Professor Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Professor Robert Burt, Yale University Law School
The Capacity of Law to Respond to Genocide
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March 2
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Approaching Historical Truth: The Performing Arts and Contemporary Reportage
Professor Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of Art, N.Y. University
Lawrence Weschler, staff writer at The New Yorker
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March 23
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Private Wounds and Public Discourse
Ms. Toni Dorfman, Theater Studies Program, Yale University
Not Leaving the Fallen Behind: Mother Courage in Vietnam
Professor Robert F. Melson, Political Science, Purdue University
False Papers – A Memoir of War and Survival
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March 30
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Memory and Representation in Monuments and Museums
James Young, Professor of English & Judaic Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture
Professor Vera Schwarcz, History, Wesleyan University
The Museum and the Garden: Art and Atrocity in a Corner of China
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April 6
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On Meeting “Otherness”
Professor Bruce Wexler, M.D., Psychiatry Department, Yale University
Neurobiologial Antagonism to Difference
Professor John Demos, History, Yale University
The Heathen School: Confronting Otherness in a Nineteenth Century New England Town
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April 13
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Literary and Historical Narrative
Professor Deborah Dwork, History Department, Clark University
Professor Cathy Caruth, Comparative Literature, Emory University
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