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Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa will be the special speaker at this year's Convocation of Fellows on Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at APA's annual meeting in Toronto.
Goldstone, who was appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 1994, will present the William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture. The lecture is titled "The Prevention of Human Rights Abuses and the Healing of Victims: Is There a Role for Psychiatry?"
Goldstone is head of the board of the Human Rights Institute of South Africa and president of the National Institute of Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders. He is also chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
From 1991 to 1994 Goldstone served as the chair of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding Public Violence and Intimidation, which became known as the Goldstone commission. From 1994 to 1996 he served as the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He is a member of the international panel established in 1997 by the government of Argentina to monitor that country's inquiry into Nazi activities in the Argentine Republic since 1938.
Other official sessions of the annual meeting will be held the day before the Convocation, on Sunday, May 31. The Business Meeting, for voting members only, will be held at 12:30 p.m. in room 105, lower level, Toronto Convention Centre. APA's officers and selected component chairs will present their annual reports to the membership. Members will be invited to bring to the attention of the APA leadership any issues they wish.
The Opening Session will be held at 5 p.m. This session, chaired by APA President Herbert S. Sacks, M.D., will be more festive and shorter than opening sessions in the past. Music will be performed by the Great Lakes Brass. Sacks will present his presidential address, followed by the response of the president-elect, Rodrigo Muņoz, M.D.
Both the Opening Session and the Convocation will be held in Hall F, 800 level, of the Toronto Convention Centre.