Humanity and the Experience of Violence and Genocide
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Genocide Convention and the 10th anniversary of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

 

Round table discussion

 

November 27th, 2008, 6 p.m.

 

Boltzmann Lecture Hall

The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI)

1090 Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 9

 

 

 

Welcome note:

 

Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics
Ministry of Interior
Ludwig Boltzmann Society
University of Vienna

 

Introduction:

 

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Botz (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science, University of Vienna)

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Prof. Dr. Bernt Hagtvet (University of Oslo): Preventing Mass Murder in the 21^st Century: Lessons from the Past

 

Prof.em. Dr. Mercedes Vilanova (University of Barcelona): Is a Change of Paradigms Possible in Democracies today? Four Conjectures

 

Participants of the round table discussion:

 

Prof. Dr. Bernt Hagtvet (University of Oslo)

Prof. Dr. Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam)

Prof. Dr. Irina Scherbakova (Memorial Moscow)

Prof. Dr. Hannes Tretter (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna)

Prof.em. Dr. Mercedes Vilanova (University of Barcelona)

 

Moderator:

Dr. Gerfried Sperl (Der Standard, Vienna)