Welcoming Remarks: Steven Shankman, Director, Oregon Humanities Center and CAS Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, UO

Amy Colin, Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam; W.E.B. Du Bois Center, Harvard University; Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh:
“Paul Celan and the Holocaust Poetry of Bukovina”

Jeffrey Librett, German and Scandinavian, UO:
“Abstraction and Materiality in Paul Celan’s ‘Rose of No One’ and Colette Brunschwig’s Celan Collages”

Robert Kyr, School of Music and Dance (Composition and Theory) UO: “Witnessing the Unutterable”

James Young, English and Judaic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
“The Stages of Memory and the Monument: From Berlin to New York”

Lawrence Baron, History, San Diego State University:
“Genres of Genocide: Depicting the Armenian and Jewish Genocides on Film”

Oren Stier, Religious Studies and Judaic Studies Program, Florida International University:
“A View from Above: The Hidden and the Revealed in Holocaust Visuality”

Respondent: Elke Heckner, German and Scandinavian, UO

Jeffrey Ostler, History, UO:
“The Question of Genocide in the Americas”

Beth Piatote, doctoral candidate, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University:
“Citing the Almanac: The Challenge of Seeing in the Age of Surveillance”

Victoria Sanford, Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY:
“From Genocide to Feminicide—Human Rights and Impunity in 21st-Century Guatemala”

Respondent: Stephanie Wood, Center for the Study of Women and Society, UO

Keynote Address 182 Lillis Hall
Chair: Judith Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities; Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies; and Head, Religious Studies, UO

Opening Remarks: Wendy Larson, Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UO

Jerry Fowler, William F. Podlich Distinguished Visiting Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (on leave 2006-07):
“Today’s Witness to Genocide: Moses or Sisyphus?”