18th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education
``More Than Dust: Reclaiming LGBTQ+ Voices of the Holocaust``
Schedule
Free and Open to the Public - Registration Required
All Times Posted are Pacific Standard (PST)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Anderson University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center
ARTS HIGHLIGHT: FILM SCREENING & TALKBACK
Unspoken — Film Screening & Talkback
Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Jeremy Borison
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Conference introduction
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Panel: Queering The Archive
- Carli Snyder: “For How Many Other Lesbian Jews was the Evidence Destroyed?: 1980s Research about Lesbian Identity and Same-Sex Encounters During the Holocaust”
- William Ross Jones: “Listening to the Interstitial: Finding Queer and Trans Voices in Holocaust Archives”
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Panel: Queering Holocaust Testimony
- Sarah Ernst: “’My Very Dear and Loyal Friend’: Queer(ing) Holocaust Video Testimonies”
- Rosie Ramsden: “Tracing Queer Kinship in Concentration Camp Society through Women’s Holocaust Testimonies”
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Anderson University Center, Room 133
Lunch & PLU Mayer Scholars presentations
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
The Raphael Lemkin Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Anna Hájková
Topic: People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
ARTS HIGHLIGHT: FILM SCREENING & TALKBACK
Alchemyst Theater Performance
The Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre presents their new production, “Papillons de Malherbe,” detailing the resistance work of two Artists and lovers, Lucy and Suzanne, lived and worked together in Paris before the war under their gender-neutral noms de plume, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. In the conservative climate in Jersey, they retreated to using their birth names, concealing Lucy’s Jewish heritage. However, the two continued to defy both gender norms and the Gestapo as they used their considerable artistic skills to undermine the occupiers and sow distrust and unease among the soldiers. Highlighted with music and song, this multi-lingual performance piece spotlights the unusual partnership and deep love of two courageous women in the face of tyranny and oppression.
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 
Anderson University Center, Chris Knutzen Lecture Hall
ARTS HIGHLIGHT: LIVE BAND PERFORMANCE
The Love Markets band performance
5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Anderson University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center
Dinner
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Laurie Marhoefer
Topic: Jewish Trans Berlin: German Jews, the Beginning of Modern Trans Politics, and the Holocaust, 1918-45
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Panel: Queering Holocaust Pedagogy
- Lisa Biton (Yad Vashem): “Teaching Complicated Lives: Queer Experiences of the Holocaust Through the Life of Fredy Hirsch”
- Katrina Hermann (Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre): “Known & Unknown: Queer Life and Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust”
- Kerry Phipps (Pink Triangle Project): “Private Lives, Public History: Recovering Queer and Trans Histories of Nazi Germany”
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Anderson University Center, Room 201
Irv Lubliner: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Survivor
Note: This session runs parallel to the Pedagogy panel in a separate room.
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Samuel Clowes Huneke
Topic: Persecution, Resistance, and Resilience: Queer Women in Nazi Germany
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Anderson University Center, Chris Knutzen Lecture Hall
ARTS HIGHLIGHT: FILM SCREENING & TALKBACK
Lunch & Margaret Heuman Film Screening
Followed by an interactive discussion with historian Anna Hájková.
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Anderson University Center, Regency Room
Panel: Queer Objects and Holocaust Memory
- Sara L. Schwartz: Objects of Remembrance, “Acts of Resistance: the Pink Triangle and the AIDS Memorial Quilt”
- Mattie Tuper: “Hidden Under the Black Triangle: The Contested Memorialization of Lesbian Victims of National Socialism.”