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Spring 2009 Seminar series

Genocide, Resistance and Rescue (II)

Thursdays 1.30-3.20 p.m.,
ISPS conference room B012, 77 Prospect St., New Haven
Open to the public

In Memoriam: Stephen Feinstein

February 5
5:30-7:00 p.m.

February 6
Yale Law School 

Proving Genocide: a panel discussion at Yale Law School 
John Hagan, Ben Kiernan, Christine Chung and Harold Koh

The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Darfur

9:30 am:         Keynote Address by Luis Moreno-Ocampo,                         Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
10:30 to 3:00: Roundtable Discussions among policymakers,                         scholars, civil society leaders

Moderated by Dean Harold Hongju Koh

February 11
(N.B. Wed. 6.30 p.m.,
in Luce Hall 203)

Film Screening 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
www.yale.edu/seas/40Years.htm 
Followed by discussion with the director, Dr. Robert Lemelson (co-sponsored with the Council on Southeast Asia Studies)

February 26

Prof. David Pettigrew, Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, 
“The Geography of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia”

March 26

Prof. Nandini Sundar, Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, 
“A Gandhian people’s movement in central India: 
genocide or counterinsurgency ?”

April 9 

T.D. Allman, author, Rogue State 
“Two genocides in Florida – Spanish and American”

April 16

Adam Jones, University of British Columbia Okanagan, and Director, Gendercide Watch 
Author, Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations 
“Exploring Gender in Genocide Studies”

April 23

Dr. Christophe Germann, Attorney, Yale/Sorbonne/Cambridge Universities,
“Cultural Genocide, A Challenge for International Law”

Friday May 8
9-5 p.m.,
General Motors Room,
55 Hillhouse Ave., 
New Haven

Colloquium on the Behavior of Rescuers of Genocide Victims
Opening address: Prof. Dori Laub, Psychiatry Department, Yale
In Search of the Memory of Rescue

Dr. Ron Dudai, York University, U.K. 
Research and Documentation of Rescue Efforts

Etelle Higonnet, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University
Rescue Stories from Iraq: “The Iraq History Project” and Human Rights Documentation

Leora Kahn, Proof: Media for Social Justice
Rescuers during the Rwandan Genocide