U Alumni and S.J. Quinney College of Law present:
The Crime of Complicity
If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should you be legally obligated to intervene or is moral responsibility enough?
Professor Amos Guiora will address the bystander-victim relationship from multiple perspectives, focusing first on the Holocaust and then exploring cases in contemporary society. Based on his book The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust, he explains that questions of bystander complicity are, unfortunately, highly relevant today, from cases of sexual assault on college campuses to Harvey Weinstein to the former Team USA Gymnastics doctor at Michigan State, and much more. He draws on lessons from the Holocaust, as well as a wide range of historical material and interviews, to illustrate the extent of the bystander’s complicity in our lives today.
When | Monday, April 5, noon (MT)
Where | YouTube—a link will be provided when you RSVP
Registration | This event is free, and an RSVP is required
This event is part of U Remembers: Breaking the Silence, view more events in this series. Questions? Email clubs@alumni.utah.edu.
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Amos N. Guiora is a professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. He's a distinguished fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and distinguished fellow and counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution at the Katz School of Business (University of Pittsburgh). He's also the inaugural chair of the U Independent Review Committee. Professor Guiora has published extensively in the U.S. and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism, the limits of power, multiculturalism, and human rights. He's author of several books, including most recently Armies of Enablers: Survivor Stories of Complicity and Betrayal in Sexual Assaults.
Professor Guiora’s research and book The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust helped build a foundation for legislation introduced in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Utah Legislative sessions by Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, that would require citizens to assist others who are suffering, or are threatened with serious bodily injury associated with a crime or another emergency.
Bob Goldberg received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and came to Utah in 1980. He is a professor of history at the U and was director of the Tanner Humanities Center from 2006–19. Under his leadership, the center raised nearly five million dollars to fund projects such as the Gateway to Learning Teacher Workshops, the World Leaders Lecture Forum, Professors off Campus Program, and the Latter-day Saints Studies Program.
Goldberg has authored eight books; just released is his collaboration with Jackson Newell and Linda Newell, Conscience and Conflict: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion. Two previous works published by Yale University Press: Barry Goldwater and Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, as well as Conscience and Conflict: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion.
Goldberg has been awarded twelve teaching honors including the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Distinguished Mentor Award, the Calvin S. and JeNeal Hatch Prize for Teaching, Distinguished Honors Professor Award, Presidential Teaching Scholar Award, and University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2003, he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University. He was awarded the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence in 2008.