The conference will be jointly hosted by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.
All sessions are free and open to the public.
The exhibition will open Feb. 2 and run through March 1 in the display cases opposite the circulation desk. At one extreme, you insist that you must prosecute and punish human rights abusers, under the theory that a society can't heal unless there is accountability. At the other extreme, you more or less push all past abuses under the carpet, on the theory that society needs to put the divisive past behind it in order to move on. This conference will explore different responses to dealing with such grave abuses as genocide and systematic racial oppression. Omar was born in South Africa in 1934 to a Muslim family.