The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Michael R. Marrus on:
Seeking Justice for Genocide: Holocaust-Era Restitution in the 1990s
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 14.00-16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
This seminar investigates a crucial issue for the study of genocide – the justice seeking that follows the end of the genocidal process and the installation of a new regime. Justice seeking involves criminal prosecutions, and sometimes truth and reconciliation processes, matters that have been extensively studied. But, what of restitution to the victims, often seen as a necessary accompaniment to other approaches to righting historic wrongs?
Drawing upon the Holocaust-era restitution campaign in the United States in the 1990s (involving Swiss banks, insurance, German corporations, and art), perhaps the most extensive restitution undertaking in recent times, Michael R. Marrus will discuss and explore the achievements, the difficulties, and the lessons of those efforts to obtain “some measure of justice” for the Holocaust.
The seminar is organised in cooperation with the Dutch Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, and marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Genocide Convention of December 1948.
Michael R. Marrus is Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Ontario. His main focus is on the Holocaust, international human rights, and the relationship between law and history. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Marrus has been a Visiting Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of six books on these and related subjects. Among them are Vichy France and the Jews (with Robert O. Paxton, 1981, Basic Books), The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University, 1985), The Holocaust in History (1987) and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46: A Documentary History (Bedford Books, 1997). Marrus is currently writing a book on Holocaust-era restitution.
Programme
14.00-14.15 Introduction
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
14.15-15.00 Seeking Justice for Genocide
Michael R. Marrus, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-16.00 Open Discussion
Chair: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Wednesday, 3 December 2008 at 12.00 noon. |
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