Speech by Elie Wiesel “The perils of indifference”Elie Wiesel, winner of the Noble Peace Prize and professor at Boston University, delivered a speech as part of the Millennium Lecture Series at the White House on April 12, 1999. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton delivered a formal lecture series. Numerous dignitaries from a wide range of public, private and foreign functions attended the event. Although Elie Wiesel designed his speech to convince, it actually deviated somewhat from the deliberative genre category, as it is more atypical within that genre category. The discourse is unique in the sense that it transforms into a genre classification considered as a hybrid deliberative genre. . Wiesel produces this hybrid genre by mixing or incorporating several different genres into the main discourse while attempting to persuade the audience. While the speech looks to the past, its main points focus on the future. Wiesel produces this hybrid genre by mixing or merging additional elements or traits from other genres such as forensic and epideictic. These factors, coupled with a multitude of discourse elements woven into the speech, such as an autobiography, a historical account, as well as the use of narration, linked within the confines of a jeremiad, which includes religious rhetoric , result in an extraordinary epideictic discourse. This article will analyze these elements to establish a distinct correlation with hybrid deliberative gender theory. Wiesel's speech, compelling in nature, was designed to educate his audience about violence and the murder of innocent people across the world. Wiesel spoke about acts that took place throughout his life, from his youth to today's atrocities. Its focus...... middle of article ......erfections presented by indifference (Matza, 2013).Works Cited1. Lyon, A. and Olson, L. C. (2011). Special issue on the rhetoric of human rights: traditions of testimony and testimony. Rhetorical Society Quarterly, 41(3), 203-212.2. Wiesel, E. (1999). The perils of indifference. Washington, DC, April 12.3. Dr. Lawrence, Carmen. (2003). Fear and denial in public policies. Sydney Branch of the Australian Psychological Society (APS). June 034. Bressman, Eric (2006). Combating Indifference: A Look at Global Responses to the Holocaust with Elie Wiesel. Columbia University.5. Matza, A. (2013). Indifference. lambda pi eta undergraduate journal, volume 1, no. 1, 33.6. Engelhardt, I. (2002). A topography of memory: representations of the Holocaust at Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and Washington DC. European Interuniversity Presses.