THIRD ANNUAL POWELL AND HELLER FAMILY CONFERENCE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION
Host: Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, PLU
March 18 - 7 p.m.
Eleventh Annual Raphael Lemkin Lecture, Scandinavian Cultural Center, UC
Speaker: Professor Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Topic: Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations and Opportunities
March 19
Scandinavian Cultural Center
8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. - Registration
9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. - Holocaust Survivor speaker, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
10:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m. - Break and refreshments
10:45 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
Speaker: Sarah Tamir, Australia.
Topic: Experiences of a Child Survivor
11:45 a.m. - noon - Kurt Mayer book presentation and signing
Noon - 1 p.m. - Break
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Moderator: Judith Kay, Associate Professor of Ethics, UPS
Speaker: Sara Horowitz, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, York University.
Topic: Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory
2 p.m. -3:30 p.m. -Jewish Literacies and the Holocaust
Moderator: Judith Kay, Associate Professor of Ethics, UPS
Speakers: Lisa Marcus, Associate Professor of English, PLU on "Dolling up History: Rebecca Rubin, Anne Frank and the Construction of Jewish American Girlhood"
Rona Kaufman, Associate Professor of English, PLU on "We Would Have Had a Cookbook of Thousands of Pages: Women, Recipes, Testimony and the Holocaust."
Jennifer Jenkins, Associate Professor of German, PLU on "The Holocaust and the Function of Literature: Two Case Studies"
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Break and refreshments
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Tomaz Jardim, Revson Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Topic: Ambiguous Justice: The Mauthausen SS before American Military Commission Courts.
Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest Awards and Reception
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Speaker: Professor James Waller, Auxiliary Scholar of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
Topic: Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Murder and Genocide.
Student Speakers: Presentations by the first and second place winners of the Lemkin Student Essay Contest.
March 20
Scandinavian Cultural Center
8:30 a.m. -9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Nick Coddington, Charles Wright Academy and a representative of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
Topic: Teaching the Holocaust in middle and secondary schools
10:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m. Break and refreshments
10:45 a.m. - noon
Speaker: Carl Wilkens
Topic: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide
Noon - 1 p.m. Lunch Break - Music of the Holocaust performed by Adam Cathcart (cello) and accompanist. Cathcart is an assistant professor of History at PLU.
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Moderator: John Conway, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia.
Speaker: Victoria Barnett, Director of Church Relations, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Topic: Bystanders-Lessons and Implications.
Comment: Professor John Roth, Founding Director of the Center for the study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College.
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Break and refreshments
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.- Kurt Mayer Summer Fellows Research Presentation
Speaker: Emily Marks, PLU, '10, Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship Winner, 2009.
Topic: Understanding the Holocaust in Poland: An Analysis of the Varying Responses of Polish Gentiles.
3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Final Panel Session: Questions and Discussion - Christopher Browning, Sara Horowitz, James Waller, Victoria Barnett, John Roth, Nick Coddington, Carl Wilkens and Robert Ericksen
*Box lunches available by prior arrangement. Contact Brenda Murray at 253-535-7595 or at murraybj@plu.edu. Pre-registration available on this web site. For further information, contact Brenda Murray at 253-535-7595 or murraybj@plu.edu, or Robert Ericksen at 253-535-7591 or ericksrp@plu.edu.