From: "RRONKKO@ Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:44:45 PM Subject: Using Holocaust ed to teach love of war & hatred of Serbs at a college near you
[Below is a blurb for an event sponsored by a prestigious Holocaust program in Minneapolis scheduled for June 21st. The second part of the program focuses on establishing certain "facts" regarding human rights and war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. This is the kind of program that needs to be seriously criticized for lacking balance and historical perspective for a whole array of reasons that I don't need to explain here. The main point about this is that this is what a major academic program in Holocaust studies is being used for, and it is not ethical, professional or historical. Even worse, it helps encourage the production of books that defame, lie and conflate the real with the fake. It is interesting that the first event is called a workshop and the second a "symposium." Perhaps they felt that even their own arrogance and political exploitation of the Holocaust has its limits, so they called it a symposium.But is there any diversity of opinion in this so-called symposium? Of course not. Arethe questions of NATO war crimes or the legitimacy of "humanitarian interventionism" not to be raised in a program supposedly devoted to the teaching of human rights and genocide? Is this a major university or just a lobbying group for the foreign policy establishment and defense industry? This type of conference is where many distorted books get started. The institution needs to be challenged. - BL] The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Guthrie Theater are presenting four programs about genocide and we invite your participation. The first program, Cambodia and the Holocaust: Searching for Justice, is a workshop at the Guthrie Theater on Saturday, June 21, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, that includes matinee attendance at the Guthrie play "After a Hundred Years." The workshop features speakers from the American Refugee Committee; The Advocates for Human Rights; Center for Victims of Torture; a former UNICEF director of school re-development in post-genocide Cambodia; and Cambodian genocide survivors. Workshop participants will attend the matinee at no cost. A brief summary of the play: Journalist Luke Newhall travels to Phnom Penh , Cambodia , for a rare, career-making interview with Phan Mok, a Khmer Rouge general accused of heinous war crimes. On the eve of his United Nations tribunal, the general sits determined to defend his actions and rehabilitate his legacy of the era, as Narin Rath, a survivor of the Killing Fields, tells the gruesome tale of her survival, illustrating the history of guilt while suggesting a possibility for healing. In grappling with the lies and truths of his interview subject, Newhall finds himself enmeshed in the life of photographer Sarah Whiting and her husband Tim Hedstrom, a prominent American doctor. Though Hedstrom appears devoted to the treatment of HIV/AIDS in this Third World country, a shocking truth reveals that it has been at the cost of betraying the ethical vows of his profession. As the characters' quests for truth intersect, they are drawn deeper into Cambodia 's history and their own complicity in crimes past and present. This workshop is free (including lunch and the play) and it is open to the public. CEU credit is available for teachers and CLE credit is available for lawyers. Space is limited; please register now! To register, go to http://chgs.umn.edu/news/cambodia.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The second program is a symposium on genocide trials, Seeking Justice in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Cambodia, Monday, June 23, 7:30 pm at the Guthrie Theater. Presenters include Professor Barbara Frey, Director of the Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota, and former Special Rapporteur to the United Nations; Judge Marilyn Justman Kaman, international judge in Kosovo in 2003 to adjudicate war crimes; and Judge Edward Wilson, who served in Kosovo with Judge Kaman and subsequently traveled to Rwanda to observe post-genocide justice in that country. This workshop is open to the public. CEU credit is available for teachers and CLE credit is available for lawyers. Cost: $10 To register, call the Guthrie Theater at 612-377-2224 ----------------- The third program is an evening of documentary films, Cambodia: Year Zero and Cambodia: Year One on Wednesday, June 25, 7:00 pm, Room 25 Mondale Hall, University of Minnesota Law School. This event is free, open to the public, and no registration is necessary. CEU credit is available for teachers. ----------------------------------------------------------- The final event is another workshop, Women as Collateral Damage in War and Genocide, also at the Guthrie Theater, Saturday, June 28, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm. Featured speakers include a leading bioethicist and expert on the situation of women refugees in war; and representatives from the American Refugee Committee, the Center for Victims of Torture, the Advocates for Human Rights, and survivors of the Cambodian genocide. This workshop is open to the public. CEU credit is available for teachers and CLE credit is available for lawyers. Cost: $20 for the workshop, which includes lunch; $26 for the afternoon performance of "After a Hundred Years" ($46 for the day) To register, call the Guthrie Theater at 612-377-2224 <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-->We invite you to attend all four events. Teachers can receive CEU credits for all four events; lawyers can receive CLE credits for both workshops and the symposium. For additional information please contact CHGS at 612-624-0256 or [Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] <!--[endif]--> -- Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D. Interim Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Coordinator, Genocide Intervention Network- Minnesota 952-693-5206 101 Nolte Center West Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Minnesota 315 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis MN 55455 http://www.chgs.umn.edu/ ************************ State: http://www.mngin.org/ National: http://www.genocideintervention.net/ ________________________________ Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. 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