| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, November 10, 2012 | 11:30AM - 1:00PM | External Event, Signy and Cleophee Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park (enter through the group entrance, located at the south entrance of the museum) |
This program will commence with a screening of the documentary The Conscience of Nhem En directed by Steven Okazaki. It is En’s photographs which are featured in the ROM exhibition, Observance and Memorial: Photographs From S-21, Cambodia. En was appointed staff photographer at the notorious S-21 prison, where, from 1975 to 1979, more than 14 000 people were registered and photographed, then imprisoned and tortured, before they were killed. The Conscience of Nhem En includes personal accounts of 3 survivors of S-21, and a rare on-camera interview with En. A discussion with filmmaker Steven Okazaki andhistorian Hilary Earl will follow the screening. Okazaki and Earl will explore the process of collecting perpetrator testimony, and what such testimony offers the historical record. They will also consider the grey zone between perpetrator and victim in the case of En, who was 10 years old when recruited into the Khmer Rouge, and 16 years old when selected to head S-21’s photography unit. En defends his actions as a job he had to do in order to survive.
Steven Okazaki
The films of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki give a human face to dramatic historical events and troubling social issues. He is an Academy Award winner (Days of Waiting,1990) and a four-time Oscar nominee, producing films on an extraordinary range of subjects (from Hiroshima to heroin addiction to the Minnesota State Fair to experimental guitarist Nels Cline) for HBO, PBS, NHK, and independently.
Professor Hilary Earl
Hilary Earl is Associate Professor of European History at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. Her book, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History, published in 2009 with Cambridge University Press, won the 2010 Hans Rosenberg prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in Central European history. Earl has published extensively on genocide, war crimes trials, and perpetrator testimony.
This program is part of the Observance and Memorial Symposium taking place on November 8 and 10 at the Royal Ontario Museum. Observance and Memorial Symposium Details: http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/index.php?media=print&cat_id=1&ref=showinfo&program_id=8183
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