Third World Views of the Holocaust: Program - Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict

Symposium Overview

Wednesday, April 18, 2001

Reception for Symposium Guests 5:30–6:30

Thursday, April 19, 2001 – Greetings and Overview (9:00-9:30am)

Opening Session (9:30-12:00) – The Shoah’s Impact Beyond Europe and America

Second Session (2:00-4:30) – Pursuing Justice and Preserving Memory

Gerald Gahima (Rwanda)

Uses and Abuses of the Holocaust Paradigm in Ethiopia
Dr. Roberto Cabrera (Guatemala)

Justice and Reconciliation? Accounting for ‘Dirty Wars’ in Light of Shoah
Chivy Sok (Cambodia)

Commemorating the Shoah and the Killing Fields

8:30 – 9:30 pm

Legacies of Nuremberg and Pursuit of Justice

Third Session (8:45-11:00) – Shoah in Third World Literature

Closing Session (11:15-12:45) – Problems of Politicization

Friday, April 20, 2001

Moderated by Steven Katz, Director of Judaic Studies Center, Boston University

Final Summation