Panel—The Nature of Witnessing Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
Chair: Evlyn Gould, Romance Languages, UO

Welcome: Scott Pratt, Acting Associate Dean of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences

Berel Lang, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University:
“Philosophers Witnessing: ‘. . . And only I have survived to tell you’”

Dominick LaCapra, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University: “Witnessing, Testimony, Commentary”

Respondent: Massimo Lollini, Romance Languages, UO

Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania:
“What Does Genocide Look Like, and How Do We Know It When We See It?”

Jerry Fowler, William F. Podlich Distinguished Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College, and Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (on leave 2006-07)

Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times

Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Respondent: Paul Slovic, Psychology, UO

Introduction: Dave Frohnmayer, President, University of Oregon

Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times:
“Covering the First Genocide of the 21st Century: Reporting From Darfur”