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. – Regency Room, Anderson University Center: How are the Holocaust and Latin America Related?
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: Light desserts and coffee
8:30 a.m. – Gray Area, Anderson University Center: Registration
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Teaching about the Holocaust in Latin America
*Eliana Rapp Badehi, Head, Educational Programs, Spanish & Portuguese-Speaking Countries, Yad Vashem’s International School for the Holocaust
9:45 - 10:00 a.m. – Break
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Museums and Educating the Public
*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
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. – Chris Knutzen, AUC: Mayer Summer Scholars and Lemkin Essay Winner
*Makayla Martinez, Mayer Summer Scholar
*Meredith Gifford, Mayer Summer Scholar
*Austyn Blair, Lemkin Essay winner
12:15 - 1:45 p.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Interviewing Holocaust Survivors in Uruguay
*Rona Kaufman, 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
1:45 - 2:00 p.m. – Break
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Jewish Life in Latin America
*Adriana Brodsky, Professor of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
*Daniela Gleizer Salzman, Institute of Historical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. – Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. – Chris Knutzen, AUC: Exploring Trauma and Surviving the Holocaust
*Grace Kalfus, Second generation legacy speaker
*Performance from Tales of the Alchemyst
5:15 - 6:45 p.m. – Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC: Light Dinner served
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Lemkin Keynote Lecture
Lemkin Lecturer Keynote Address by Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University. “Visions of the Other: Stereotypes, Survival, and the Refugee Question in Brazil.”
Moderator: Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University
8:30 p.m. – Gray Area, AUC: Light desserts
9:00 a.m. – Gray Area, Anderson University Center: Registration
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Memories of the Holocaust
*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
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. – Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. – Regency Room, AUC: Nazis in Hiding
*Daniel Stahl, Senior Researcher, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
*Avner Avraham, Researcher, Eichmann in Hiding
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. – Break
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. – Chris Knutzen, AUC: Lunch with Documentary and Survivor Interview
*Documentary: “Giza, la nina de la maleta” (Giza, the girl in the suitcase) (2014)
Giza Alterwajn will join us via Zoom to be interviewed by Professor Giovanna Urdangarain