Detailed Agenda

Friday, March 12, 2010

Welcoming Remarks
10:00 – 10:30

Elazar Barkan – Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Professor of International Affairs and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Ukrainian and Polish Historical Commissions
10:30 – 12:30

Chaired by John Micgiel – Director, East Central European Center; Executive Director, European Institute; Associate Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation: Traditional Views and the Roots of Reconciliation from World War II to the Late 1980s
Frank E. Sysyn – Professor and Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; Jacyk Visiting Scholar to the Columbia Ukrainian Studies Program, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

The Longest Reconciliation: Polish and Ukrainian Memories on Polish-Ukrainian Military Conflicts in the 20th Century
Yaroslav Hrytsak – Director, Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society, University of Alberta; Director, Institute for Historical Research, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Chair of Modern World History, Ukrainian Catholic University

Institute of National Remembrance: Polish Model of Dealing with the Totalitarian Past
Krzysztof Persak – Senior Expert, Institute of National Remembrance; Research Fellow, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science

Present and Absent Victims: The Baltic States and Romania
1:45 – 3:45

Chaired by Paige Arthur – Deputy Director of Institutional Development, International Center for Transitional Justice

The Baltic States and Russia: Bilateral Lessons from Unilateral Commissions
Vello Pettai – Senior Researcher, Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu; Guest Professor of Political Science, Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Aufarbeitung of the Holocaust in the Baltic States: Comparing Baltic History Commissions’ Impact on Jewish-Baltic Reconciliation
Eva-Clarita Pettai – Academic Coordinator and Researcher, Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg

The Wiesel and Tismaneanu Commission: Lessons for Turkish-Armenian Historical Commissions
Lavinia Stan – Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University

Germany: After Guilt
4:00 – 6:00

Chaired by Daniel Levy – Associate Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University

Germans, Poles, and the Controversy about the “Museum Against ‘Vertreibung’”
Norman M. Naimark – Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Department of History, Stanford University

Money, Memory, and Bureaucracy: The Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future”
Constantin Goschler – Professor of Modern History, Ruhr University Bochum

Crimes of the Wehrmacht and the Galician Mystery: Commissions and Obfuscations
Omer Bartov – John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History; Chair, Department of History, Brown University

Saturday, March 13, 2010

North East Asia: Varieties of Denial and Recognition
9:15 – 11:15

Truth and Reconciliation within Korea: “Collaboration” and Colonialism
Charles Armstrong – The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University

A History That Opens to the Future: The First Common China-Japan-Korean History Teaching Guide
Soon-Won Park – Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University

Remembrance, Reconciliation and Reconstruction – China-Japan Joint History Research Project: Problems and Prospect
Q. Edward Wang – Professor of History; Coordinator of the Asian Studies Program, Rowan University

Why Commissions Fail: China and Japan, 2010
Carol Gluck – George Sansom Professor of History; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Lessons Learned: Perspectives on the Proposed Armenia-Turkey Commission
11:30 – 1:15

Chaired by Elazar Barkan – Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights; Professor of International Affairs and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Armenian-Turkish Protocol and Dispute on an Historians Commission
Taner Akçam – Associate Professor; Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University

Lessons from the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission and Their Applicability to the Protocols on Normalization and Recognition
David L. Phillips – Director, Program on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, American University

Concluding Remarks
1:15 – 1:30