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Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations and Opportunities |
Holocaust Survivor speaker, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center |
Experiences of a Child Survivor  Speaker: Sarah Tamir, Australia. Holocaust Survivor speaker, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center March 19th, 2010
10:45 a.m. -11:45 a.m
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Kurt Mayer book presentation and signing |
Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory  Moderator: Judith Kay, Associate Professor of Ethics, UPS Speaker: Sara Horowitz, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, York University. March 19th, 2010
1p.m. - 2p.m.
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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" March 19th, 2010
2p.m. - 3:30p.m.
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Ambiguous Justice: The Mauthausen SS before American Military Commission Courts. |
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Murder and Genocide.   Speaker: Professor James Waller, Auxiliary Scholar of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation Student Speakers: Presentations by the first and second place winners of the Lemkin Student Essay Contest. March 19th, 2010
7p.m. - 9p.m.
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Teaching the Holocaust in middle and secondary schools   Speaker: Nick Coddington, Charles Wright Academy and a representative of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center March 20th, 2010
9a.m. - 10:30a.m.
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Remembering the Rwandan GenocideCarl Wilkens   March 20th, 2010
10:45a.m. - Noon
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Break: Music of the HolocaustAdam Cathcart  March 20th, 2010
Noon - 1pm
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Bystanders-Lessons and Implications.   Moderator: John Conway, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia. Speaker: Victoria Barnett, Director of Church Relations, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Comment: Professor John Roth, Founding Director of the Center for the study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College. March 20th, 2010
1p.m. - 2:30p.m.
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Understanding the Holocaust in Poland: An Analysis of the Varying Responses of Polish Gentiles.   Speaker: Emily Marks, PLU, '10, Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship Winner, 2009. March 20th, 2010
2:45p.m. - 3:15p.m.
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Final panel Session: Questions and Discussions   Christopher Browning, Sara Horowitz, James Waller, Victoria Barnett, John Roth, Nick Coddington, Carl Wilkens and Robert Ericksen March 20th, 2010
3:15p.m. - 4:30p.m.
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This conference is free and all sessions are open to the public. Registration is requested. The program on Saturday, March 20, is designed with educators in mind, and is focused on lessons of diversity and tolerance that can be learned through the Holocaust. Educator clock hours are available. For further information, please contact Brenda Murray at 253-535-7595 or the PLU Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Robert Ericksen, at ericksrp@plu.edu.
