09:00 to 09:30
Symposium

Introduction

Henry Laurens & Samantha Besson
Genocide. Law and history of the crime of crimes
09:00 to 09:30
    Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Henry Laurens

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Samantha Besson

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30
    Henry Laurens & Samantha Besson

    Introduction
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    William Schabas

    Genocide, a customary law norm, but since when ?
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Jean-Clément Martin

    The Vendée wars and genocide : beyond polemics, a crucial question
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00
    Samantha Besson & Henry Laurens

    Discussion

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    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Mark Levene

    The Elephant in the Room: Genocides, Past, Present and Future in an Era…
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30
    Monique Chemillier-Gendreau

    The perpetrators of genocide : the difficulty of disentangling the individua…
    Symposium
    12:30 to 13:00
    Samantha Besson & Henry Laurens

    Discussion

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    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Guénaël Mettraux

    Establishing the crime of genocide in the criminal trial : history, emotion …
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Christian Ingrao

    To put an end to the " motivation ".…
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    Samantha Besson & Henry Laurens

    Discussion

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    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45
    Omer Bartov

    Eradicating Gaza: How to Remember and Forget Genocide
    Symposium
    16:45 to 17:15
    Rafaëlle Maison

    Memory, history and the present : the case of Gaza
    Symposium
    17:15 to 17:45
    Samantha Besson & Henry Laurens

    Discussion

    Not recorded
    Symposium
    17:45 to 18:30
    Samantha Besson & Henry Laurens

    General discussion and conclusions

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    See also

    Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
    Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World
    Genocide. Law and history of the crime of crimes