Rosenbluth
Family Charitable Foundation
March 31 - April 4, 2025
Remembrance, Memorialization and Repair
With special focus on the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide and the murder and displacement of Native American communities, Genocide Awareness Week 2025 will bring different cultures of remembrance, memorialization and repair after genocide in conversation with each other. The importance of survivor testimony, the need to bring perpetrators to justice, the power and limits of representation in text and art, as well as the difficulty to represent the complexity of genocide through memorialization are shared features of confronting genocide. Equally important is the need to counter genocide denial and distortion. Starting from common themes such as these, GAW fosters dialogues among survivors, academics, activists, artists, and government officials through presentations, performances, discussions, and exhibits. For more information and a full schedule, visit jewishstudies.asu.edu/GAW25.
GAW Conference Program
Monday, March 31, 2025
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction and Welcome | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University
• Tim Langille, Arizona State University
9:15 am - 10:15 am | Native American Survivor | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Introduction: Tim Langille, Arizona State University
• Presenter: Doreen Meyers Duncan, Yellow Bird Productions
10:30 am - 11:45 am | Memory Work Panel | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This comparative panel explores the ways in which memory is constructed and preserved through physical objects and artifacts in cross-cultural contexts.
• Moderator: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
• Panelists: Pedro Gonzalez Corona, Northern Arizona University
• Rabbi Jeffrey Schesnol, Cutler Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Student Panel | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel, comprised of ASU students who have survived genocide or are the descendants of genocide survivors, discusses memory and “living with the legacy.”
• Moderator: Chris Holman, Arizona State University
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Intergenerational Memory | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel explores intergenerational trauma, intergenerational memory, and “post memory.”
• Moderator: Ramina Jajoo-Frindrich, Seyfo Center
• Panelists: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University (Zoom)
• Don Fixico, Arizona State University
• Arianne Ishayu, De Anza College
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Art in the Shadow of Death | Social Hall, VOSJCC and on Zoom
A presentation of the opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of Atlantis), composed by Viktor Ullmann with librettist Peter Kien in Theresienstadt, 1943, and the graphic novel Death Strikes the Emperor of Atlantis (2024), based on the opera.
• Introduction: Leslie Feldman, Phoenix Holocaust Association, and Hava Tirosh Samuelson, Arizona State University
• Presenters: Adam Millstein, Violinist
• Dave Maass, Writer, University of Nevada, Reno
• Patrick Lay, Illustrator, Columbus College of Art and Design
Addresses
ASU Tempe, COOR 4403: 976 S Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
ASU Tempe, COOR 170: 976 S Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
ASU Tempe, 5th Floor Recital Hall, School of Music: 50 E Gammage Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
ASU Tempe, Galvin Plaza: 51 E 10th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281
ASU Tempe, College of Design North, Room 60: 810 S Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
ASU MIX Center: 50 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201
Social Hall, VOSJCC: 12701 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
GAW Conference Program
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
9:00 am - 10:15 am | Survivor: Holocaust | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Introduction: Volker Benkert, Arizona State University
• Presenter: Rise Stillman
10:30 am - 11:45 am | Reconciliation, Restitution, and Reparations | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel examines justice in post-genocidal societies and contexts.
• Moderator: Keith Brown, Arizona State University
• Presenters: Avinoam Patt, New York University
• Henry Theriault, Worcester State University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Book Discussion | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom | Chile Eboe-Osuji, “End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity,” and William A. Schabas, “The International Legal Order’s Colour Line: Racism, Racial Discrimination, and the Making of International Law”
• Presenters: Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, Toronto Metropolitan, University and Former President of the International Criminal Court
• William A. Schabas, Middlesex University
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Genocide: Legal and Ethical Perspectives | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel focuses on the legal aspects of genocide and its aftermaths.
• Presenter: William A. Schabas, Middlesex University
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Keynote Lecture: The Right to Peace Initiative | ASU Tempe, COOR 170 and on Zoom
Distinguished international jurist and former President of the International Criminal Court discusses the right to peace initiative.
• Introduction: Richard Amesbury, Arizona State University
• Keynote: Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, Toronto Metropolitan, University and Former President of the International Criminal Court
GAW Conference Program
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
9:00 am. - 10:15 am | Survivor: Bosnia | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Introduction: Tim Langille, Arizona State University
• Presenter: Esad Boskailo
10:30 am - 11:45 am | Pain, Trauma and Repair | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel explores the various ways in which the consequences of trauma are addressed in repairing societies and in post conflict trials.
• Moderator: Bjorn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University
• Panelists: Joanna Michlic, University of Lund
• Sabah Carrim, Northern Arizona University
GAW Conference Program
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 (continued)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Religion and Memory | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel analyzes the relationships between religion, violence, and genocide.
• Moderator: Devin Burns, Arizona State University
• Panelists: Kate Temoney, Montclair State University
• DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
3:00 pm – 5:45 pm | Film Screening and Panel, “The Load” (2018) | ASU MIX Center in Mesa, Screening Room 201
• Panelists: Ognjen Glavonić, Director
• Tatjana Krstevski, Cinematographer
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm | 30th Anniversary of the Genocide at Srebrenica - Healing, Resilience, and Adversity | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Panelists: Jasmin Mujanovic, New Lines Institute
• Nejra Sumić, We Are All America
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Voices Silenced | ASU Tempe, 5th Floor Recital Hall, ASU School of Music and on Zoom
A presentation of music from the Holocaust.
• Performers: Hannah Creviston
• Christopher Creviston
• Amanda DeMaris
GAW Conference Program
Thursday, April 3, 2025
9:00 am - 10:15 am | Survivor: Native America | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Introduction: Maurice Crandall, Arizona State University
• Presenter: Ken Duncan, Yellow Bird Indian Dancers, San Carlos Apache Tribe
10:30 am – 11:45 am | Book Discussion: “Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp” | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
• Presenter and Author: Jacob Flaws, Kean University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break and Yellow Bird Indian Dancers, Hoop-Dancing Exhibition | ASU Tempe, Galvin Plaza
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Nagorno-Karabakh: Destruction of Indigeneity | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
This panel looks at the contemporary and ongoing destruction of Nagorno-Karabakh.
• Moderator: Ani Hovannisian, Filmmaker - “The Hidden Map”
• Panelists: Henry Theriault, Worcester State University
• Barlow der Mugrdechian, Fresno State University
• Simon Maghakyan, Oxford University
GAW Conference Program
Thursday, April 3, 2025 (continued)
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Activist Panel: Afghanistan | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom This panel looks at the Taliban and ISIL-K persecution of the Hazara, with a focus on the Haraza Genocide and gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
• Moderator: Ambassador Edward O‘Donnell, Arizona State University
• Panelists: Nasir Kaihan, ASU, President Afghan Student Association, Alekian Foundation
• Zahara Kaihan, Aspiring Human Rights Activist and Lawyer
• Alekian High School Student Testimony
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | “Make America Great Again?”: Human Rights and Preventing Genocide | ASU Tempe, COOR 4403 and on Zoom
Ambassador Edward O‘Donnell will give a brief status report on the Trump Administration and a “scorecard” of what has been done (and not done) as of April on human rights, preventing genocide, atrocities, crimes against humanity.
• Panelist: Ambassador Edward O‘Donnell, Arizona State University
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Film Screening and Panel, “Depth Two” (2016) | ASU Tempe, College of Design North, Room 60 (Lower Level)
• Panelists: Ognjen Glavonić, Director
• Tatjana Krstevski, Cinematographer
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