April 20th
Panel Discussion - "Genocide in the 20th Century: Its Roots, Planning, and Possible Prevention"
At Fairmont Newport Beach

World Affairs Council
of Orange County

Presents

"Genocide in the 20th Century: Its Roots, Planning, and Possible Prevention"

Panelists: Just Added: Director Andrew Goldberg, Professor Michael J. Bazyler, Professor Richard G. Hovannisian, and Lane Montgomery / Moderator: Serge Tomassian

“Genocide in the 20th Century”: The “Plague of Evil” that has regretfully marked humankind this past century. From the Armenian, Jewish, Cambodian and most recently Darfur genocides, what has been learned as to the genesis of the unspeakable horrors visited upon innocent victims of the policy of genocide. The World Affairs Council of Orange County is proud that for the first time in its history it has assembled a panel of internationally known experts on the Crime of Genocide, its definition, causes, tools of implementation and the ultimate “goals’ sought in committing mass murder, as well as the aftermath of genocide-the human cost in suffering and misery and the instability brought to the World.

Just Added: Producer/Director Andrew Goldberg
Emmy award winning director and producer Andrew Goldberg has produced and directed news and documentaries for such networks as PBS, ABC and CBS, along with numerous networks internationally. His work has primarily covered public affairs and history, with a large emphasis on human rights, bigotry and genocide. He has produced four films for PBS on the Armenian people, including most recently the PBS special The Armenian Genocide. The film was described by The New York Times as “powerful” and by the The NJ Star Ledger as “serious, literate and ultimately heartbreaking.” He has also produced three films dealing with Jewish history and the Holocaust including his 2002 PBS film, A Yiddish World Remembered and his 2007 film, Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century. He is currently working on three projects including The Iranian Americans, in co-production with KOCE, the PBS station of Orange county; OUT in America, an exploration of LGBT America, for PBS; and a yet-to-be named film on animal cruelty.

Professor Michael J. Bazyler
Michael J. Bazyler is Professor of Law and "1939" Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Holocaust Education Trust in London and the holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. During the fall of 2006, he was a Research Fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority of Israel) and the holder of the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust.

After twenty-five years of teaching at Whittier Law School, Bazyler joined the Chapman law faculty in Fall, 2008. Over his 27-year law teaching career, Bazyler has been a visiting professor, including a distinguished visiting professor, at various law schools in the United States, Australia, Russia, Belarus, and Israel. He teaches Comparative Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Business Litigation, International Business Transactions, Criminal Law, Torts, Civil Procedure and a course he created entitled The Holocaust, Genocide and the Law.

Professor Richard G. Hovannisian
Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian is Professor of Armenian and Near Eastern History and Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his association with UCLA, where he established both the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian history. He represented the State of California for twelve years on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) and has served as a consultant of the California Department of Education.

Professor Hovannisian has edited and contributed to five volumes on the Armenian Genocide and nine volumes on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. He is also the author of "Armenia on the Road to Independence" and the four-volume The Republic of Armenia, a detailed fundamental study of the first Armenian republic that was created in the waning months of World War I. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards and honors for his advancement of scholarship and Armenian Studies. In 1990, he became the first social scientist outside of Armenia to be elected to the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.

Lane Harvey Montgomery
Lane Montgomery, author of the book, “Never Again, Again, Again…Genocide: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Darfur,”wears many hats in addition to that of writer. She’s a photographer, humanitarian, passionate speaker and activist, who has dedicated her life to raising awareness of genocide past and present.

Montgomery has put her passions into action as an advisory board member of the Carr Center at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a member of the Center of the National Cathedral for Peace and Global Reconciliation in Washington, D.C. She also has traveled as a photographer for the International Rescue Committee, Americares and other humanitarian groups to such places as Rwanda, Liberia, Haiti, Kosovo, Ethiopia and the Congo. Professionally, Montgomery is a registered photographer with Getty Images in the UK and in the U.S.

Moderator: Serge Tomassian, Programs Chair and Past Chairman of the World Affairs Council.

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Location: Fairmont Newport Beach
4500 MacArthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, Ca. 92660

Valet Parking: Special Discounted Price - $4

6:00 pm Reception * 7:00 pm Dinner * 7:45 pm Program
Members @ $55 Non-Members @ $70 Students @ $38