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Representing Genocide: Media, Law and Scholarship

April 5 & 6, 2013
Mondale Hall -The Law School

Few attempts have been made to specifically highlight the connection between representations of past mass atrocities and their actual impact on unfolding events of mass violence. An examination of this urgent question is an essential component of global progress towards human rights goals and the prevention or reduction of future political violence. Moreover, while there is an important body of work on Holocaust memory as such, the symposium explored when and how promoting public awareness and memory of mass atrocities through distinct institutions (the media, the judiciary and academic scholarship) can lead to effective anti-genocide policies.

Conference Organizers: 
Alejandro Baer, Director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
Joachim Savelsberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Participating Scholars:
Fredrico Finchelstein, Associate Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor, Northwestern University
Jens Meierhenrich, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE/ Princeton University
Bella Mody, James de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado
Mark Osiel, Aliber Family Chair in Law, University of Iowa
Devin Pendas, Associate Professor History, Boston College
Natan Sznaider, Professor of Sociology, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
Allan Thompson, Assistant Professor Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

Schedule: Schedule_Symposium Representing Genocide (1).pdf

Sponsored by: Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, European Studies Consortium, the Human Rights Program, Institute for Global Studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, Human Rights Center at the Law School, Department of Sociology, Department of German Scandinavian & Dutch, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of History.

The Symposium was made possible by the Wexler Special Events fund for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Past Symposia and Conferences

  • Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich Sunday April 15 & Monday April 16, 2012
  • Conference on Norway: World War II and the Holocaust April 2007
  • Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World October 2006
  • Association of Holocaust Organizations Annual Conference June 2006
  • Association of Genocide Scholars 4th International Bi-annual Conference: Detering and Preventing Genocide: Missed Opportunitites, Contemporary Issues & Future Possibilities June 2001
  • Departures: New Feminist Perspectives on the Holocaust April 2001
  • Hun Piao Symposium on Asian Tragedies of World War II October 2001
  • Creating the Other: the Causes & Dynamics of Nationalism, Ethnic Enmity & Racism in Central & Eastern Europe May 1999
  • Conference on Memory and Outrage February 1999