Genocide and Religion:
Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders and Resisters
February 11-13,
2007
Sunday, February 11,
5:30 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Reception at the
7:00 p.m. Dinner and Keynote Speech
Rabbi Marvin Hier, (Introduction)
Dean and Founder,
Dr.
Monday, February 12,
8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Roger Alford, Associate
Professor, Pepperdine University; former Senior Legal Advisor, Claims
Resolution Tribunal, Zurich Switzerland; co-editor of Holocaust Restitution:
Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy
Kenneth Starr,
Dean,
Pepperdine University School of Law; former United States Solicitor General;
former judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit; Office of the Independent Counsel
9:15 a.m. Opening Panel: Historical Overview of Genocide
Paul Marshall, Senior
Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House; Senior Fellow, Claremont
Institute; author of Their Blood Cries
Out
John Roth, Edward J. Sexton, Professor of
Philosophy, Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and
Human Rights; author of Approaches to
Auschwitz and Will Genocide Ever End?
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Genocide and Religion: The Victims
Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Theology, University of Judaism, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute; Project Director, United States Holocaust Museum; author of The World Must Know and Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
Richard
Hovannisian, Professor
of Armenian and Near Eastern History, UCLA; Guggenheim Fellow; Armenian
National Academy of Sciences; author of numerous books relating to the Armenian
genocide
12:30 p.m. Luncheon
Keynote
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, (Introduction), Associate Dean,
Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished
Research Professor, DePaul University; President, International Human Rights
Law Institute; Chairman of
the Drafting Committee of the 1998 Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment
of an International Criminal Court
2:15 p.m. Genocide and Religion: The Perpetrators
Hon. Bruce Einhorn, U.S.
Immigration Law Judge, former attorney, Justice Department Office of Special
Investigations
Ambassador Pierre Prosper, former United States Ambassador-At-Large for
War Crimes; former war crimes prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda
Michael Bazyler, Visiting
Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law; Professor of Law,
Whittier Law School, Research Fellow, Yad Vashem Holocaust Center; author Holocaust Justice and co-editor Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy.
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Genocide
and Religion: The Bystanders
Kristen
Renwick Monroe, Professor
of Political Science, University of California, Irvine; author of The Heart of Altruism and The
Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral
Choice During the Holocaust
Ronald
Rychlak, Professor of
Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
5:00 p.m. Special
Memorial and Tribute Service for Victims and Resisters of Genocide
Musical selection: Exodus,
Hedva Danoff
7:00 p.m. Dinner
Tuesday, February 13,
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome
Robert Cochran,
Louis
D. Brandeis Professor of Law,
Chris Soper,
Professor
of Political Science,
9:15 a.m. Genocide and Religion: The Resisters
Jerry Fowler, Director,
Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; former
Legislative Counsel, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Harold Schulweis, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Shalom; founding Chairman, Jewish Foundation for the Righteous; Founder, Jewish World Watch
Carl Wilkins, Pastor,
11:45 a.m. Genocide and Religion: Collective Resistance
Leila Sadat; Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of
Law,
Dan Caldwell; Distinguished Professor of
Political Science,
12:45 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m. Closing Luncheon Keynote: Where Do We Go From Here?
Darryl Tippens,
(Introduction) Provost and Chief Academic Officer,
Baroness Carolyn Cox of
Queensbury, Deputy Speaker, British
House of Lords; President, Christian Solidarity (UK); recipient, William
Wilberforce Award