CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

(The Wednesday program will be held in the Lehr Room, Gordinier Conference Center. All Thursday and Friday sessions will be held in the rooms indicated.)


Wednesday, April 2
5-6:30 p.m. Information and Contacts Second Floor, Gordinier Center
 

 

The book exhibit, organized by the Library of Social Science, will be open during the Conference. Please stop by the Audubon Room and browse. All books are on sale at special, discounted prices.
 
7-7:20 p.m. Opening of the Conference Saulius Sužiedėlis,
    Millersville University
 
  Welcoming Remarks John Short,
    Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
    Millersville University
 
  Invocation Rev. David R. Fisher
    Assistant to the Bishop,
    Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA
 
7:20-9 p.m. The Aristides De Sousa Mendes Lecture  
 

Introduction: Why Aristides de Sousa Mendes?

Saulius Sužiedėlis
Millersville University
     
  The Lecture Samantha Power
  U.S. Foreign Policy in an Age of Terror: Kennedy School of Government
  Can Genocide Be Stopped? Harvard University
 
 
9-10 p.m. Author’s Book Signing  
 



Thursday, April 3
9-10:15 a.m. The Reynold Koppel Lecture Lehr Room
 
  Introduction Richard A. Glenn
  Millersville University
 
  Good Germans and the Holocaust:
 Robert P. Ericksen
  Lessons for Today Pacific Lutheran University
 
10:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m. Plenum Session
Lehr Room
     
  The Politics of War Crimes Trials  
  in Historical Perspective
  A round table presented by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
  Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Moderator
  Senior Program Officer University Programs CAHS, USHMM
   
  The Experience of the Metropolitan Police Martin Dean
  War Crimes Department Applied Research Scholar
    CAHS, USHMM
     
  The Legacies of Nuremberg Donald Bloxham, J.B. and
    Maurice C. Shapiro
    Senior Scholar-in-Residence
    CAHS, USHMM
     
  Transitional Justice and Just Transitions: Devin O. Pendas
  The German Case, 1945-1950 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick
    Postdoctoral Fellow, CAHS, USHMM
     
12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break  
 

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, Thursday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
 
2 - 3:45 p.m. Plenum Session 2 Lehr Room
     
  The Language of Genocide: Criminal Justice,  
  History and Government  
  Chair and Respondent: Steven Jacobs, Aaron Aranov Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama
  Paul R. Bartrop, Head, Department of History, Bialik College, Australia
  Alex Alvarez, Professor of Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University
  Herbert Hirsch, Professor of Political Science, Co-Editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention, Virginia Commonwealth University
     
4-5:45 p.m. Session 1: Military and Diplomatic Intervention University Room
    Chair: John McLarnon
    Millersville University
     
  NATO’s Intervention in Kosovo: Ralph E. Brown III
  Motivations and the Media California State University
    San Bernardino
     
  Exploring Operational Responses to Douglas Carl Peifer
  Genocide: Furnishing U.S. Air, Space and Air War College
  Communication Capabilities to Regional  
  Intervention Forces  
     
  Is ‘Biased Justice’ Useless Justice? The Question of Peter Russel
Univ. of
Melbourne
  Selective Prosecution at the International Criminal  
  Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia  
     
  Session 2: The Holocaust as Personal Journey Matisse Room
    Chair: Steven Rogers
    Senior Historian
    Office of Special Investigations
    U.S. Department of Justice
     
  We Are All Here: Facing History in Lithuania Ellen Cassedy
    Independent Scholar
     
  Survival in Auschwitz and Models of Simonetta Milli Konewko
  Compassion to Fight Mass Murder University of Wisconsin
     
  Commentary: Saulius Sužiedėlis  
  Millersville University  
     
7-9 p.m. Discussion and Film: An Evening with Lehr Room
  the Victims of Darfur  
     
  What I Saw in Darfur: Megan Bremer, Esq.
  Thoughts on the Devil Pa. Immigration Resources Center
     
  Film: The Devil Came on Horseback  
     

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, Thursday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
     
Friday, April 4
9-10:30 a.m. The Jack R. Fischel Lecture Lehr Room
     
  Introduction Robert Bookmiller
    Millersville University
     
  Justice for Genocide and Crimes Louis Aucoin
  against Humanity: Progress and Deterrence Assoc. Research Professo
    Fletcher School
    Tufts University
     
10:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Session 3: Genocide: Politics, University Room
  Justice and Education Chair: Joseph Robert White
    U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
     
  The Armenian Genocide: Gary A. Kulhanjian
  The Lack of Justice in the Post-WW I Era Middlesex County
    College and Kean University
     
  A World Made New: Integrating Genocide Rosanna M. Gatens
  Prevention and Human Rights Study in and Mary Johnson
  High School and University Education Florida Atlantic University
     
  Congress and Genocide: Scott Racek
  A Study of Reactive Behavior University of Maryland
     
  Session 4: Medicine and Genocide Matisse Room
     
    Chair: Neil Leifert
    Pennsylvania State University
    Harrisburg
     
  Nazi-Era Medical Experimentation: Steven Friedman, DDS
  An Isolated Phenomenon? Gratz College
     
  Standardization of the Treatment of Human Andrea M. Szkil
  Remains as a Response to Genocide Richard Stockton College
    of New Jersey
     
12:30 p.m. -1:45 p.m. Lunch  
     
2-3:30 p.m. Video Presentation University Room
  What I Saw at Nuremberg: Henry T. King Jr.
  The Relevance of the Trials in Today’s World Director
    Canada/U.S. Law Institute
    Case Western Reserve University
    School of Law
     
3:45-5 Conference closing  
     

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
 
     
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