Agenda - Genocide Conference 2018 - Jagiellonian University

Conference Agenda

Please note: the Agenda can be downloaded below.

8:30 - 9:15 - Registration

9:15 - 10:00 - Welcome address

10:00 - 11:30 - Panel I "Rafał Lemkin - Madrid Conference - achievements and legacy"

Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala - "Rafał Lemkin’s Concept of Genocide vs. the Genocide Convention"
Tamás Hoffmann - "The Crime of Genocide in its (Nearly) Infinite Domestic Variety"
Danuta Kabat-Rudnicka / Brygida Kuźniak - "Norms Ius Cogens, Obligations Erga Omnes and Crimes of International Law. Some Terminological Remarks on the Crime of Genocide as a Case Study - Polish and International Perspective"
Konstantin Kleine - "No Such Thing as an Apolitical Genocide – Legalism and the Prohibition of Genocide"

11:30 - 12:00 - Coffee break

12:00 - 13:30 - Panel II "ICTR and ICTY jurisprudence on genocide"

Ruth Amir - "Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention: Children as a Protected Group"
Kamil Boczek - "Responsibility of Members of the Government and other Public POfficials Pursuant to Art. 4 of the Convention"
Michala Chadimova - „Genocide and Superior Responsibility – Special Intent for Omission”
Harout Ekmanian - "When the Stars Align - Justice for Syria Under International Law"

13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 - Panel III "Genocide, Hate Speech and Social Media"

Agata Helena Skóra - "Atrocity Speech and Social Media in the Case of Yazidi - Challenges for Prosecuting the Crime of Incitement to Genocide"
Piotr Łubiński - "Social media incitement to genocide – ISIS activity in the EU"
Łukasz Dąbrowski - "Transnational Corporations' Responsibility for Genocide under International Law"
Eszter Kirs - "The contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to the National Efforts to Prevent Hate Crimes Committed by Organized Extremist Groups"

16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee break

20:00 - Conference dinner

10:00 - 11:30 - Panel I "The Crime of Genocide - Contemporary Challenges" (Room 401 N)

Veronika Bilkova - "The Criminalization of the Denial of Holocaust and Other Forms of Genocide"
Patryk Labuda - "Investigating International Crimes in a Decentralized System of International Criminal Justice"
Nobuo Hayashi - "Contemporary Forms of Genocide"
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias - "Memory and Past on Trial: European Court of Human Rights on Genocide Denial"

10:00 - 11:30 - Parallel session: "Education for the prevention of the crime of genocide" - workshop

Maciej Zabierowski, Auschwitz Jewish Centre
Katarzyna Pabis-Cisowska, Institute for Security Studies, Pedagogic University Kraków

11:30 - 12:00 - Coffee break - Room Przewiązka

12:00 - 13:30 - Panel II "New Developments - Cultural Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing" - Room 401 N

Tamas Adany - "Ethnic Cleansing as a Dogmatically not Impossible Form of Genocide"
Andrzej Jakubowski - "Reparations for Cultural Loss in International Criminal Law"
Marco Odello - "Genocide and Culture: Revisiting their Relationship 70 Years after the Genocide Convention"
Marcin Marcinko - "Pseudo-medical Experiments as a Form of Biological Genocide in the Trial of Rudolf Hess"

13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch break - Room 102-103

14:30 - 16:00 - "Angels of Sinjar" - meeting with ISIS genocide survivors - Room 401 N