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| Welcome to attend the Conference of the Soviet Gulag and the Chinese Laogai |
The Soviet Gulag and the Chinese Laogai: Comparing Two Systems of Oppression
Laogai Research Foundation Conference
Thursday, May 4th, 2006, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
1319 Eighteenth St. NW, Second Floor Ballroom, Washington, D.C. 20036
Members of the public are welcome to attend- please RSVP to laogai@laogai.org by May 1
Co-sponsored by
Freedom House and The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
With funding support from
The National Endowment for Democracy
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:00am Opening address: House democratic leader Nancy Pelosi
Dr. Lee Edwards, Chairman, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
9:00-10:30am Panel I: The Gulag and the Laogai
Ms. Anne Applebaum, Columnist, The Washington Post; Author of Gulag: A History-
The Gulag: What We Know Now and Why it Matters
Mr. Harry Wu, Executive Director, Laogai Research Foundation-
Soviet Gulag Experts in China
Moderator & Commentator: Mr. Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for
Democracy
Discussion
10:30-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm Panel II: Concentration Camps and the Laogai
Dr. Joel Kotek, Head of the formation department, M¨¦morial de la Shoah of Paris; Professor at the Universit¨¦ Libre de Bruxelles and Sciences of Paris ¨C
Concentration Camps in the 20th Century: a Complex Reality
Dr. Dieter Heinzig, Expert in Soviet and Chinese affairs; Former deputy director, Federal Institute for East European and International Studies, Cologne
The Gulag and the Laogai: Similarities and Differences
Moderator & Commentator: Ms. Jennifer Windsor, Executive Director, Freedom House
Discussion
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:30-1:45pm Prepared statement of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human
Rights
1:45-3:00pm Panel III: Laogai Survivors
Ama Adhi, Tibetan activist; Author of The Voice that Remembers: The Heroic Story of a Woman¡¯s Fight to Free Tibet
Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur human rights activist
Mr. Lu Decheng, Laogai survivor
Moderator & Commentator: Mr. Dan Southerland, Vice President and Executive
Editor, Radio Free Asia
Discussion
3:00pm-3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15pm-5:00pm Ms. Tienchi Liao, Director, Laogai Research Foundation
Chinese Laogai Prisoner Autobiographies: The Background of the ¡°Chinese Thaw¡± and an Introduction to the ¡°Black Series¡±
Ven. Palden Gyatso, Tibetan activist; Author of Fire Under the Snow
Mr. Xu Wenli, Researcher at Brown University; Founder of the China Democracy Party; Author of I Shed my Blood to Color My Country
Mr. Wu Yashan, Author of Difficult Years
6pm to 7:30pm Dinner reception hosted by the Congressional Human Rights
Caucus (Co-Chaired by Senators Sam Brownback and Tom Harkin and Congressmen Tom Lantos and Frank Wolf)
Senate Russell Building, Room 385
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