Holocaust and Genocide: From the Past to the Present
Symposium
Admission: $15 |
This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention. This symposium will address issues including the contentious history of the adoption of the Genocide Convention by the U.S.; the shifting role of the Holocaust in public and political discourse, including the question of the Holocaust’s uniqueness, and; what the past has failed to teach us about the possibilities of prevention and intervention in acts of genocide.
Program:
Chair: Jonathan Brent, YIVO Executive Director and CEO
Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University)
“Raphael Lemkin, Civil Rights, and the Genocide Convention”
Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union)
“The Holocaust: History and Memory after 75 Years”
Panel and Open Discussion:
Jonathan Brent and Professors Rabinbach and Grossmann with Berel Lang (State University of New York at Albany) and Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study)