Mediocrates
01-29-2008, 06:57 AM
In connection with the Museum exhibition, Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice, Yeshiva University Museum and Cardozo School of Law are pleased to invite you to attend this unique conference that will feature many first-rate scholars and historians, from France and the U.S., including Charles Dreyfus, Alfred Dreyfus' grandson.
An invitation is enclosed.
Free admission. Reservations required. Please call 917-606-8200.
The Dreyfus Affair
A Century Later: Legacy & Lessons
I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E
2:30 PM
INTRODUCTION
Alfred Dreyfus the Man: A Grandson's Portrait
by Charles Dreyfus
3:00-4:30 PM
PANEL I
Contemporary Implications of the Dreyfus Affair: Franco-American Comparisons
Chair:
Richard Weisberg, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Speakers:
Pierre Birnbaum, Former Professor at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and current Associate Professor at Columbia University
Vincent Duclert, Author and Professor of Contemporary French History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Emmanuel Lenain, Spokesman and Director, Press and Communication Office, French Embassy to the United States
Jeffrey Mehlman, University Professor and Professor of French Literature, Boston University
4:45-6:15 PM
PANEL II
EQUALITY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Chair:
Sheri P. Rosenberg, Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Speakers:
Justice Rosalie Abella, Canadian Supreme Court
Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Security, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Julie Chi-Hye Suk, Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Kendell Thomas, Co-director, Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia Law School
6:15 PM
Viewing of the exhibition:
Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice and Reception
This conference was made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
Free admission, Reservations required.
Please call 917-606-8200
www.yumuseum.org (http://www.yumuseum.org)
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
At the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NY 10011
An invitation is enclosed.
Free admission. Reservations required. Please call 917-606-8200.
The Dreyfus Affair
A Century Later: Legacy & Lessons
I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E
2:30 PM
INTRODUCTION
Alfred Dreyfus the Man: A Grandson's Portrait
by Charles Dreyfus
3:00-4:30 PM
PANEL I
Contemporary Implications of the Dreyfus Affair: Franco-American Comparisons
Chair:
Richard Weisberg, Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Founding Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Speakers:
Pierre Birnbaum, Former Professor at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and current Associate Professor at Columbia University
Vincent Duclert, Author and Professor of Contemporary French History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Emmanuel Lenain, Spokesman and Director, Press and Communication Office, French Embassy to the United States
Jeffrey Mehlman, University Professor and Professor of French Literature, Boston University
4:45-6:15 PM
PANEL II
EQUALITY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Chair:
Sheri P. Rosenberg, Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Speakers:
Justice Rosalie Abella, Canadian Supreme Court
Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Security, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Julie Chi-Hye Suk, Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Kendell Thomas, Co-director, Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia Law School
6:15 PM
Viewing of the exhibition:
Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice and Reception
This conference was made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
Free admission, Reservations required.
Please call 917-606-8200
www.yumuseum.org (http://www.yumuseum.org)
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
At the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NY 10011