Holocaust Denial Conference

The Holocaust Denial conference which took place 14/15 November 2008 is now online and can be listened to at http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/index.php?res=cycles&idcycle=391



Holocaust Denial Conference

Paris, November 14-15, 2008

Programme

Friday, November 14th:    

09:30     Welcoming remarks

 Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, École normale supérieure, Paris

09:45      Opening remarks

Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University

Katherine Fleming, Director, Remarque Institute, Europe

Zvi Ben-Dor, History Department, New York University

.

Session I

10:00– 12:00             denial: history  and historiography

Chair:          Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University

Participants:      

  1. Robert Jan Van Pelt, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario
  2. Nicholas Berg, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History &  Culture,  Leipzig University
  3. Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester

12:30                                          Lunch

Session II

14:00 – 16:00             Criminalizing Denial:

 Legal and  Ethical Perspectives

Chair: Jan Gross, History Department, Princeton University          

Participants:      

1.    William Schabas, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland

2.   Robert Kahn, School of Law, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

3.   Patrick Finney, Department of International Politics, Aberstwyth University

Session III        

17:00 – 19:00             Denial: The private and the public

Chair: Samuel Moyn, Department of History, Columbia University

Participants:            

  1. Deborah Dwork, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
  2. Alexandra Garbarini, , Department of History, Williams College
  3. Jan Gross, Department of History, Princeton University

                                   

Saturday, November 15th  

Session IV

10:00 – 12:00                         The Roots of Denial

 (e.g. French Left/North America, Germany)

Chair: Philippe Roger, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris

Participants:     

1.    Ruth Bettina Birn, The Hague, Netherlands

2.   Valérie Igounet, French scholar and historian

3.   Samuel Moyn, Department of History, Columbia University

12:30                                          Lunch

Session V

14:00 – 16:00                         Denial in International Perspectives

Chair: Zvi Ben-Dor, History Department, New York University

 Participants:                                                                             

1.    Rotem Kowner, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Haifa

2.   Ramin Jahanbegloo, Political Science Department, University of Toronto

3.   Avner Ben-Amos, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University

16:45       Closing comments

                  Berel Lang, College of Letters, Wesleyan University