 biographies of presenters susan karamanian  susan karamanian is the associate dean for international and comparative legal studies program at the george washington university a former rhodes scholar dean karamanian is a member of the council on foreign relations and a fellow of the american bar foundation she is also an active member of the american society of international law in 2009 she was elected president of the washington foreign law society dean karamanian joined gwu law school after a 14year career at locke liddell sapp llp in dallas texas where she has represented foreign and domestic clients in international disputes she has received her jd from university of texas and ba from oxford university henry theriault henry theriault is a professor of philosophy at worcester state college where he has taught since 1998 his teaching and research interests include courses on genocide and human rights longterm justice for mass violence mass violence against women ideology and propaganda ethics and political philosophy since 2007 he has served as coeditorinchief of the peerreviewed journal genocide studies and prevention and has been on the advisory council of the international association of genocide scholars professor theriault s research focuses on philosophical approaches to genocide issues especially genocide denial longterm justice and ethical analyses of perpetrator motivations he has served as coordinator of the worcester state college s center for the study of human rights and lectured widely in the united states and internationally professor theriault earned his phd in philosophy from the university of massachusetts with a specialization in social and political philosophy gregory aftandilian gregory aftandilian is an independent consultant specializing in middle east affairs at various times since mid1980s mr aftandilian has served a senior staffer at the international economic policy subcommittee of the senate foreign relations committee foreign policy adviser to senators paul sarbanes and senator edward kennedy and congressman chris van hollen he also served as a middle east analyst at the department of state bureau of intelligence and research from 1988 to 2000 additionally mr aftandilian has served as a senior adviser on middle east affairs at the national democratic institute for international affairs and as a fellow with international security program at the john f kennedy school of government at the harvard university he has received his ms in international relations from london school of economics and ma in middle eastern studies from university of chicago  