Teaching about Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Conference for Teachers

Schedule for the Yale conference on Teaching about Genocide, February 1-2, 2008

Conference schedule:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1

3:00-4:00
Registration
(Luce Hall)

4:00-5:00
Keynote address:
“What is Genocide?”
Ben Kiernan, Director of the Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
(Auditorium)

5:10-6:00
Breakout seminars:

A: “Armenia”
Simon Payaslian, Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Professor in Modern Armenian
History and Literature, Boston University
(Auditorium)

B: “Guatemala”
Etelle Higonnet, formerly of Human Rights Watch, New York
(Luce 203)

C: “Stalin’s Great Terror”
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
(Luce 202)

6:00-6:30
Breakout discussion sections, “Wirbelgruppe”
(Auditorium, 102, 103, 202, 203, Common Room)

6:30-7:30
Dinner
(Common Room, 202, 203)

7:30-8:30
Plenary session:
“The Holocaust”
Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director, Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
(Auditorium)

8:30-10:30
Film and discussion:
“New Year Baby,” a documentary on Cambodia by filmmaker and survivor Socheata Poeuv (80 mins.), followed by discussion with Socheata Pouev
(Auditorium)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2:

8:15-9:00
Breakfast
(Common Room)

9:00-9:45
“Resources Available at Yale in the Fortunoff Video Archive”
Joanne Rudof, Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
(Auditorium)

9:50-10:40
Holocaust survivor testimony:
Henry Greenbaum (Washington, DC)
(Auditorium)

10:50-11:40
Breakout seminars:

A: “Cambodia”
Ben Kiernan, Director of Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
(Auditorium)

B: “Rwanda”
Catharine Newbury, Professor of Government, Smith College
(Luce 202)

C: “Bosnia”
Jasmina Besirevic, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Yale University
(Luce 203)

11:50-12:20
Breakout discussion sections, “Wirbelgruppe”
(Auditorium, 102, 103, 202, 203, Common Room)

12:30-1:30
Lunch
(Common Room, 202, 203)

Two short documentaries “The Promise” and “Child of Hope: Darfur Dreams of Peace,” produced by Danbury High School, will be shown in Luce 203 during lunch.

1:30-2:30
Plenary session: “Tracking Genocide”
Adam Jones, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia, Okanagan (Auditorium)

2:30-3:30
Plenary session: “Darfur,”
Eric Reeves, Smith College
Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human Rights
(Auditorium)

3:30-4:30
Plenary session: “Genocide in the Curriculum”
Helen Fein (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Joyce Apsel, New York University
(Auditorium)

4:30-5:30
Session with working teachers, led by Judi Freeman (Boston Latin School)
how to integrate what we’ve learned into the secondary school and community college classroom; distribution of curricular materials and resource lists, etc.
(Auditorium)

5:30-5:45
Evaluations and farewells
(Auditorium)