Symposium "Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion: Lessons for and from Southeast Asia" 23-26 November 2021
Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion - Lessons for and from Southeast Asia
Speakers:
Sopheap Chea, Executive Director at Bophana Center Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;
Sayana Ser, Peace Institute of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;
Rafal Pankowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland.
Moderator:
Visal Sorn, Civil Peace Service/forumZFD International, Battambang, Cambodia
23 November 2021
Time ICT (Bangkok/Phnom Penh) and CET (Warsaw) |
Session |
Speakers and moderators |
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17:30-17:45 ICT/ 11:30-11:45 CET |
Opening remarks, introducing the project | Prof. Rafal Pankowski, co-founder, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
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17:45-18:00 ICT/ 11:45-12:00 CET |
Opening remarks |
Dr. Kunnaya Wimooktanon, BALAC, Program Director, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
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17:45-18:00 ICT/ 11:45-12:00 CET |
Critical Discourse Analysis approach to study anti-minority discourses, racism, and genocide denial This lecture is organised and sponsored by BALAC program, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
Lecture and discussion with the founder of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and distinguished professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Teun van Dijk. Moderator: Dr. Verita Sriratana, Department of English, Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Research Fellow at Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden |
Zoom link to join the session on the 23rd November 2021
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81052702148?pwd=V1MzY1Q0QlVEOGhoZFBPaGJOaGVVZz09
Passcode: 931815
24 November 2021
Time ICT (Bangkok/Phnom Penh) and CET (Warsaw) |
Sessions |
Speakers and moderators |
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17:00-17:05 ICT/ 11:00-11:05 CET |
Welcome, introducing the program | Natalia Sineaeva, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
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17:05-17:15 ICT/ 11:05-11:15 CET |
Opening remarks | Paula Assubuji, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia, Phnom Penh |
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17:15-17:30 ICT/ 11:15-11:30 CET |
An overview of the problem of Holocaust distoriton and how it relates to antisemitism | Robert Williams, Deputy Director, International Affairs, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA, chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial at the IHRA
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17:30-18:00 ICT/ 11:30-12:00 CET |
Keynote talk about the meaning of the Holocaust, its legacy, and challenges for its commemoration |
Introduction by Prof. Dina Porat IHRA Honorary Chair, Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem, Israel |
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18:00-18:20 ICT/ 12:00-12:20 CET |
Discussion, reflections |
Chair: Prof. Dina Porat, Chief Historian at Yad Vashem, First Head of the Kantor Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel Questions by Foysal Shahriar Ratul |
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18:20-18:30 ICT/ 12:20-12:30 CET |
Break: Mindfulness meditation | Venerable Lablu Barua (Thirasattho), Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand |
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18:30-18:45 ICT/ 12:30-12:45 CET |
Globalisation of genocide denial. The case of genocide multi-deniers | Prof. Rafal Pankowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
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18:45-19:00 ICT/ 12:45-13:00 CET |
Dealing with the past in Cambodia in the context of genocide distortion | Sayana Ser, Peace Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
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19:00-19:15 ICT/ 13:00-13:15 CET |
Bophana Center’s work against the denial and distortion of Khmer Rouge atrocities | Sopheap Chea, Executive Director at Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
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19:00-19:15 ICT/ 13:00-13:15 CET |
Discussion, reflections | Moderator: Visal Sorn, Civil Peace Service/forumZFD International, Battambang, Cambodia |
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19:40-20:00 ICT/ 13:40-14:00 CET |
Break: Short tour of Jewish Warsaw | |
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20:00-20:30 ICT/ 14:00-14:30 CET |
Keynote talk about genocide distortion and denial in Southeast Asia and worldwide | Prof. Ben Kiernan, Professor of International and Area Studies, Director of the Genocide Studies at Yale University Program, USA |
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20:30-21:00 ICT/ 14:30-15:00 CET |
Discussion, reflections, conclusions
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Discussant: Dr Theresa de Langis, Director of the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, American University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Moderator: Prof. Rafal Pankowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
Zoom link to join the sessions on the 24th November 2021:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360212239?pwd=NlFYNzFkZ2REbzh0VEdFeHZrRmphZz09
Passcode: 174078
25 November 2021
Time ICT (Bangkok/Phnom Penh) and CET (Warsaw) |
Sessions |
Speakers and moderators |
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16:00-16:10 ICT/ 10:00-10:10 CET |
Introduction the program, welcome | Sayana Ser, Peace Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Natalia Sineaeva, the NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
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16:10-16:40 ICT/ 10:10-10:40 CET |
Countering Holocaust distortion withing the framework of interfaith dialogue in Southeast Asia | Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich, Warsaw, Poland |
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16:40-16:50 ICT/ 10:40-10:50 CET |
Discussion, reflections | Venerable Lablu Barua (Thirasattho), Mahachulalongkornrajavidyala ya University, Bangkok, Thailand |
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16:50-17:20 ICT/ 10:50-11:20 CET |
The Land of Smiles, Nazi Chic and Communist Cool: Personality Cult and “Democide & Holocaust Indifference” in Thailand | Dr Verita Sriratana, Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Research Fellow at Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden |
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17:20-17:35 ICT/ 11:20-11:35 CET |
Discussion, reflections | Moderator: Dr David M. Malitz, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan |
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17:35-18:05 ICT/ 11:35-12:05 CET |
How techniques of denial and distortion were weaponised to enable the genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya, and why education about the Holocaust and its denial must be part of a democratic Myanmar’s future | Dr Ronan Lee, Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Law and the International State Crime Initiative and author of ‘Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech’, London, UK |
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18:05-18:15 ICT/ 12:05-12:15 CET |
Discussion, reflections | Moderator: Foysal Shahriar Ratul, Jahangirnagar University, Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice, Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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18:20-18:50 ICT/ 12:20-12:50 CET |
Burmese Jews as part of pluralist society in Myanmar | Sammy Samuels, Leader of Jewish Community, Yangon, Myanmar |
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18:45-18:55 ICT/ 12:45-12:55 CET |
Discussion, reflections | Moderator: Dr Michal Lubina, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland |
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18:55-19:00 ICT/ 12:55-13:00 CET |
Break | |
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19:00-20:30 ICT/ 13:00-14:30 CET |
Discussion ‘Challenging Genocide Distortion’ | Konstanty Gebert, journalist, writer and educator, Warsaw, Poland Barbara Thimm, CPS-advisor GIZ at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Mofidul Hoque, founder trustee of the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum, Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice of the Museum, Dhaka Nickey Diamond, Ph.D. candidate in political and legal anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, Burmese human rights activist and an advisor to Fortify Rights, Konstanz, Germany Moderator: Prof. Rafal Pankowski, co-founder, the NEVER AGAIN Association, Warsaw, Poland |
Zoom link to join the sessions on the 25th November 2021
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Passcode: 507507