Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education
“Latin America and the Holocaust”
Schedule
Free and Open to the Public - Registration Required
All Times Posted are Pacific Standard (PST)
7:00 p.m. – Opening of Conference, Regency Room, Anderson University Center
Viewing of the Documentary film, Sobrevivi ao Holocausto/I survived the Holocaust (2014) with Julio Gartner and Marina Kagan (the survivor and his granddaughter). Directors are Caio Cobra and Marcio Pitliuk.
Moderator: Professor Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at University of North Carolina
8:30 p.m. – Gray Area, AUC
Please join us for a dessert reception following the viewing.
8:30 a.m. – Gray Area, Anderson University Center
Registration
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Yad Vashem, Exploration of 10-part curriculum developed to teach the Holocaust in Spain and in Latin American countries
Moderator:
9:45 - 10:00 a.m. – Break
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Christina Chavarria, Program Coordinator in the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
*Samanta Casareto, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Universidad de Buenos Aires and representative for the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Moderator:
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. – Lunch with Mayer Summer Scholars and Lemkin Essay Winner, Chris Knutzen, AUC
*Makayla Martinez, Mayer Summer Scholar
*Meredith Gifford, Mayer Summer Scholar
*Austyn Blair, Lemkin Essay winner
Moderator:
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Rona Kaufmann, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies Faculty, Pacific Lutheran University
*Giovanna Urdangarain, Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies Faculty, Pacific Lutheran University
Moderator:
1:45 - 2:00 p.m. – Break
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Adriana Brodsky, Professor of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
* Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
*Yael Siman, Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City
Moderator:
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. – Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. – Chris Knutzen, AUC
*Grace Kalfus, Second generation legacy speaker
* Performance from Tales of the Alchemyst
Moderator:
5:15 - 6:45 p.m. – Dinner Break, Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. – Lemkin Lecture Keynote Address, Regency Room, AUC
“Visions of the Other: Stereotypes, Survival, and the Refugee Question in Brazil”
Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University.
Moderator: Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University
8:30 p.m. – Gray Area, AUC
Please join us for a dessert reception following the keynote.
9:00 a.m. – Gray Area, Anderson University Center
Registration
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
*Natasha Zaretsky, Clinical Associate Professor at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey where she leads the Truth in the Americas initiative
Moderator:
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. – Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC
*Daniel Stahl, Senior Researcher, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
*Uki Goni, author of The Read Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe
Moderator:
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. – Break
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. – Lunch with Documentary and Survivor Interview, Chris Knutzen, AUC
*Documentary: “Giza, la nina de la maleta” (Giza, the girl in the suitcase) (2014)
Giza will join us via Zoom to be interviewed by Professor Giovanna Urdangarain