Beyond Nuremberg 

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WHEN: November 3-5, 1999 (See full agenda for specific events.)
WHERE: University of South Carolina and Holiday Inn, Assembly Street
COST: Free and open to the public
For more information about the conference: Call Dr. Donald Puchala at 803-777-8180 or Rabbi Hesh Epstein at 803-782-1831. Dr. Puchala can also be reached at puchala@garnet.cla.sc.edu.

     Ernestine Schlant, well-known German scholar and wife of Sen. Bill Bradley, will join Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the 1996 landmark book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” and a host of top historians and public policy experts to discuss genocide and how to prevent it Nov. 3 - 5 at a University of South Carolina conference.
     The conference is free and open to the public.
     The  “Beyond Nuremberg” conference continues the 1997 successful conference at USC that featured nine Nuremberg War Crimes Trials prosecutors discussing the implications of the trials on future war crime trials.   “Beyond Nuremberg” will focus on mass murder since World War II  in countries such as Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and Cambodia and examine the causes of, and international reaction to, the atrocities.
     Keynote addresses by Schlant and Goldhagen and a lecture by writer Anna Rosmus, whose life is the basis of the Oscar-nominated film, “The Nasty Girl,” will focus on German atrocities against Jews.
     Schlant’s address, “How the Germans have Confronted the Holocaust in Literature and Contemporary Thought,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in the USC School of Law auditorium.  Goldhagen’s address, “How the Germans Have Confronted the Holocaust in Scholarship and the Media,” will be held at 9 a.m. Nov. 4 at the Holiday Inn.  Rosmus’ lecture, “My Jewish Mission: A German Woman’s Search for the Truth,” which is part of USC’s annual Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture and Symposium in Jewish Studies, will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 4 in USC’s Gambrell Hall auditorium.
     Other conference highlights will include panel discussions on understanding genocide and the obstacles of public disclosure; Americans’ reaction to mass murder; how suppressing or distorting memories of atrocities can perpetuate them; human rights law and the establishment, function and success of modern war crime tribunals; and the role that  medical experimentation has played in mass murder.
     Participants will include USC historians Dr. Robert Herzstein and Dr. Peter Becker, international studies professors Dr. Donald Puchala and Dr. Natalie Hevener Kaufman and School of Medicine professors Donald E. Saunders, M.D., and Harold I. Friedman, M.D., as well as the following notable scholars:
 

• Edward T. Chase, former editor-in-chief of New York Times Books and senior editor with AP Putnam, Macmillan and Scribners;
  

• Franke Wilmer, international relations professor at Montana State University;
  
• Deborah Lipstadt, Holocaust researcher at Emory University;
  
• Arthur I. Cyr, professor and researcher of political economy and world business at Carthage College;
  
• John Mohawk, American studies professor at SUNY, Buffalo,  member of the Iroquois Confederacy Grand Council and author of “Exiled in the Land of the Free”;
  
• John Dower, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “War Without Mercy”;
  
• Kristen Monroe, professor and researcher of political theory and economy at the University of California, Irvine;
  
• Whitney Harris, retired captain of the U.S. Naval Reserve and assistant trial counsel before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg;
  
• Felice Gaer, director of the New York Office of the American Jewish Committee;
  
• Lawrence LeBlanc, political science professor at Marquette University;
  
• W.B. Ofuatey-Kodjoe, political science department chairman at the graduate center of the City University of New York, specialist on United Nations affairs and human rights, particularly African human rights, and member of the board of directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, and
  
• Velvl Green, the Carlin professor emeritus of epidemiology and public health at Ben Gurion University's medical school and director of the school's Lord Jakobovots Center for Jewish Medical Ethics.

      Sessions will take place at USC and at the Holiday Inn on Assembly Street.  The conference is sponsored by  USC’s College of Liberal Arts, School of Law, Walker Institute of International Studies and departments of history and religious studies and Columbia’s Shoftim Society, an educational organization consisting primarily of Jewish attorneys dedicated to leadership through education.