Panelists
Panelists
Plenary Session: 70th Anniversaries of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Ophelia Leon
Chair of the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes
Ophelia Leon is an Art Historian, graduate of Kean University in the U.S. She has curated art exhibits in Museums and Galleries in New York, Los Angeles and throughout Europe, in Dublin, Berlin, London, Paris, Brussels… She is the director and founding member of A.R.T.E., an organization promoting Respect and Tolerance through Art and Education. She is currently President, and previously Treasurer of ICMEMO, the International Committee in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes, part of ICOM, the International Council of Museums and a member of its Working Group on the future of International Committees.
Ophelia Leon
Chair of the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes
Ophelia Leon is an Art Historian, graduate of Kean University in the U.S. She has curated art exhibits in Museums and Galleries in New York, Los Angeles and throughout Europe, in Dublin, Berlin, London, Paris, Brussels… She is the director and founding member of A.R.T.E., an organization promoting Respect and Tolerance through Art and Education. She is currently President, and previously Treasurer of ICMEMO, the International Committee in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes, part of ICOM, the International Council of Museums and a member of its Working Group on the future of International Committees.
Piotr M. A. Cywinski
Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Piotr M. A. Cywiński was born on 16 April 1972 in Warsaw. A historian of the Middle Ages, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 2006. Co-creator of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the president of the foundation since its establishment in 2009. Member of the International Auschwitz Council, and its secretary between 2000 and 2006. Vice-president of the Warsaw Catholic Intelligentsia Club between 1996 and 2000, and later its president until 2010.
Member of many bodies dedicated to remembrance:, member of the Board of the Foundation for the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk in Germany; board Member of the Maison d’Izieu Memorial in France; member of ‘Memorial’ in Moscow. Since 2017 Chairman of the Program Board of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.More
Member of many bodies dedicated to remembrance:, member of the Board of the Foundation for the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk in Germany; board Member of the Maison d’Izieu Memorial in France; member of ‘Memorial’ in Moscow. Since 2017 Chairman of the Program Board of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.More
Piotr M. A. Cywinski
Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Piotr M. A. Cywiński was born on 16 April 1972 in Warsaw. A historian of the Middle Ages, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 2006. Co-creator of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the president of the foundation since its establishment in 2009. Member of the International Auschwitz Council, and its secretary between 2000 and 2006. Vice-president of the Warsaw Catholic Intelligentsia Club between 1996 and 2000, and later its president until 2010.
Member of many bodies dedicated to remembrance:, member of the Board of the Foundation for the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk in Germany; board Member of the Maison d’Izieu Memorial in France; member of ‘Memorial’ in Moscow. Since 2017 Chairman of the Program Board of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.More
Member of many bodies dedicated to remembrance:, member of the Board of the Foundation for the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk in Germany; board Member of the Maison d’Izieu Memorial in France; member of ‘Memorial’ in Moscow. Since 2017 Chairman of the Program Board of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.More
Mofidul Hoque
Founding trustee of the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh
Mofidul Hoque did his MA in Sociology from Dhaka University. He is an author and social activist of repute. He has written more than a dozen books on socio-cultural study and history. He has been awarded with the Bangla Academy Literary Prize and the national award “Ekushey Padak”. He is the Founder-Trustee of the Liberation War Museum, a people’s organization established in 1996. He directs the Oral History Project of the museum that has accumulated more than 50,000 eye-witness accounts of history. He is involved in promoting justice for genocide and the concept of peace and tolerance in society. As Director of Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice he is promoting the cause both nationally and globally. He is the key organizer of 5th various International Conferences on Bangladesh Genocide and Justice, held in Dhaka from May 19-21, 2017. More
Mofidul Hoque
Founding trustee of the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh
Mofidul Hoque did his MA in Sociology from Dhaka University. He is an author and social activist of repute. He has written more than a dozen books on socio-cultural study and history. He has been awarded with the Bangla Academy Literary Prize and the national award “Ekushey Padak”. He is the Founder-Trustee of the Liberation War Museum, a people’s organization established in 1996. He directs the Oral History Project of the museum that has accumulated more than 50,000 eye-witness accounts of history. He is involved in promoting justice for genocide and the concept of peace and tolerance in society. As Director of Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice he is promoting the cause both nationally and globally. He is the key organizer of 5th various International Conferences on Bangladesh Genocide and Justice, held in Dhaka from May 19-21, 2017. More
Harutyun Marutyan
Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute
Harutyun Marutyan is the Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Head Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and former (1991-2013) Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Yerevan State University. He has graduated from the Yerevan State University (History Department, M.A., 1978) and the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in Moscow (Ph.D., 1984). He received his second PhD in 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan.
His research interests include Armenian Genocide memory, national identity transformation, modern national movements, iconography, traditional Armenian culture, and poverty. More
His research interests include Armenian Genocide memory, national identity transformation, modern national movements, iconography, traditional Armenian culture, and poverty. More
Harutyun Marutyan
Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute
Harutyun Marutyan is the Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Head Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and former (1991-2013) Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Yerevan State University. He has graduated from the Yerevan State University (History Department, M.A., 1978) and the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in Moscow (Ph.D., 1984). He received his second PhD in 2007 at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan.
His research interests include Armenian Genocide memory, national identity transformation, modern national movements, iconography, traditional Armenian culture, and poverty. More
His research interests include Armenian Genocide memory, national identity transformation, modern national movements, iconography, traditional Armenian culture, and poverty. More
Hans-Christian Jasch
Director of the House of the Wannsee Conference Educational and Memorial Site
Dr. iur. Hans-Christian Jasch is a lawyer and legal historian by training. He holds a PhD in legal history from the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was appointed as director of the Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference in May 2014 following the publication of his critically acclaimed book in 2012 on the Nazi-state-secretary Wilhelm Stuckart, who represented the Ministry of interior at the Wannsee Conference. Before starting his assignment as director of the Wannsee Memorial and parallel to his academic research on law and public administration in Nazi-Germany, Mr. Jasch worked as a lawyer in the public administration for the German Federal Ministry of Interior in the field of countering right-wing extremist hate crime and terrorism (2012-2014) and as a seconded national expert on preventing violent radicalisation for the counter- More
Hans-Christian Jasch
Director of the House of the Wannsee Conference Educational and Memorial Site
Dr. iur. Hans-Christian Jasch is a lawyer and legal historian by training. He holds a PhD in legal history from the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was appointed as director of the Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee Conference in May 2014 following the publication of his critically acclaimed book in 2012 on the Nazi-state-secretary Wilhelm Stuckart, who represented the Ministry of interior at the Wannsee Conference. Before starting his assignment as director of the Wannsee Memorial and parallel to his academic research on law and public administration in Nazi-Germany, Mr. Jasch worked as a lawyer in the public administration for the German Federal Ministry of Interior in the field of countering right-wing extremist hate crime and terrorism (2012-2014) and as a seconded national expert on preventing violent radicalisation for the counter- More
Cameron Hudson
Senior Strategy Advisor at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC
Cameron Hudson is the Senior Strategy Advisor at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Before that, he was for six years the director of the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and previously served as the Center’s policy director. From 2009 to 2011, he served at the State Department as the chief of staff to the President’s Special Envoy for Sudan during the period of South Sudan’s independence. He also served from 2004-2009 as the director for African affairs on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, where we was responsible for organizing the government response to the Darfur genocide. Previously, he worked for the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the former Yugoslavia.
Cameron Hudson
Senior Strategy Advisor at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC
Cameron Hudson is the Senior Strategy Advisor at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Before that, he was for six years the director of the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and previously served as the Center’s policy director. From 2009 to 2011, he served at the State Department as the chief of staff to the President’s Special Envoy for Sudan during the period of South Sudan’s independence. He also served from 2004-2009 as the director for African affairs on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, where we was responsible for organizing the government response to the Darfur genocide. Previously, he worked for the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the former Yugoslavia.
Assumpta Mugiraneza
Director of the Iriba Centre in Kigali, Rwanda
Assumpta Mugiraneza is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for multimedia heritage – Rwanda. She is an educationalist, a socio-psychologist and a political scientist. For 20 years, she has been working on the topics of extreme violence and genocide, focusing particularly on the role of language and communication, for example comparing the Nazi and Hutu power discourses. She has written several book chapters and academic articles on the topic. She teaches about the history and the prevention of genocides, using multimedia archives.
Assumpta Mugiraneza
Director of the Iriba Centre in Kigali, Rwanda
Assumpta Mugiraneza is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for multimedia heritage – Rwanda. She is an educationalist, a socio-psychologist and a political scientist. For 20 years, she has been working on the topics of extreme violence and genocide, focusing particularly on the role of language and communication, for example comparing the Nazi and Hutu power discourses. She has written several book chapters and academic articles on the topic. She teaches about the history and the prevention of genocides, using multimedia archives.