Speakers and Programs

Each semester, the Center sponsors speakers and programs concerning the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights. Recent speakers have included Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power, who discussed her book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide; Seymour Hersh, who discussed Iraq's Abu Graib prison; and Howard Wolpe of the Woodrow Wilson Center, who spoke on "Challenges to Peacemaking in the Great Lakes Region of Africa." Other recent programs included the first public debate between William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International, and Rick Smith, founder and CEO of TASER International.

Video is available for several of the Center's recent programs:

• Richard Evans on the Irving-Lipstadt libel case (April 18, 2005)
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• Rick Smith and William Schulz TASER debate (March 9, 2005)
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• Paul Rusesabagina, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned" (February 28, 2005)
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• Seymour Hersh on Iraq's Abu Graib prison (October 6, 2004)
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• Michael Nutkiewicz, "Toward an Understanding of Torture" (October 5, 2004)
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• Michael Berenbaum, "Creating Something from Nothing: The Scholar as Entrepreneur"(February 25, 2003)
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• Jonathan Petropoulos: "Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany" (October 24, 2002)
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For a list of recent programs and links to descriptions, select one of the speaker series below:

Torture, Human Rights, and the Geneva Convention (2004-2005)

Researching the Holocaust (2002)

Confronting Evil: Lectures on the Holocaust and Genocide (2003)

Perspectives on Genocide in the 20th Century (2003)

Atrocities on Trial: Nuremberg in Historical Perspective February 21-22, 2006