CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

(The Wednesday program will be held in the Lehr Room, Gordinier Conference Center. All Thursday and Friday sessions will be held in the rooms indicated.)


Wednesday, April 1
5-6:30 p.m. Information and Contacts Second Floor, Gordinier Center
 

 

The book exhibit, organized by the Library of Social Science, will be open during the Conference. Please stop by the Audubon Room and browse. All books are on sale at special, discounted prices.
 
7-7:20 p.m. Opening of the Conference Saulius Sužiedėlis
    Millersville University
 
  Welcoming Remarks John Short,
    Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
    Millersville University
 
  Invocation Rabbi Jack Paskoff
    Congregation Sharaai Shomayim
 
7:20-9 p.m. The Aristides De Sousa Mendes Lecture  
 

Introduction: Why Aristides de Sousa Mendes?

Saulius Sužiedėlis
Millersville University
     
  The Lecture Robert Gellately
  Hitler, Anti-Communism and the Holocaust Florida State University
 
 
9-9:30 p.m. Author’s Book Signing  
 



Thursday, April 2
9-10:15 a.m. The Reynold Koppel Lecture Lehr Room
 
  Introduction Saulius Sužiedelis
  Millersville University
 
  Ghettostadt:
 Gordon J. Horwitz
  Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City Illinois Wesleyan University
 
10:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m. Plenum Session
Lehr Room
     
  A panel presented by Research Fellows at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
     
  National Myths of Holocaust Resistance and Rescue: Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria Chair/Discussant: Cristina Bejan CAHS, USHMM
     
  Rewriting Slovak Wartime History:
President Tiso as a Case Study		 Hana Klamkova
Charles University (Prague)
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
CAHS, USHMM
     
  The Making of the Story of Heroic Turkish Rescuers and Its Abuse in the Denial of the Armenian Genocide Corry Guttstadt
Research Fellow
CAHS, USHMM
     
  Positioning Bulgaria as a ‘Balkan Denmark’ Steven Sage
    Researcher, Survivors Registry
    USHMM
     
12:15-1:45 p.m. Conference Luncheon and Presentation Lehr Room
  Luncheon Speaker
Dennis B. Klein, Director, Jewish Studies Program, Kean University
Living with Genocide: Expressions of Forgiveness in Post-Traumatic Testimonies		  
     
 

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, open 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
 
2 - 3:45 p.m.  
Session 1: Film and Visual Arts as Depictions of Genocide University Room
Chair: Sue Ortmann
Millersville University
     
  ‘Comfort Women’:
The Victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan and Representation of Trauma in the Paintings by the Victims		 Hanna Song
War and Women’s
Human Rights Museum
Republic of Korea
     
  Movies and the Death Camps:
The Grey Zone and Escape from Sobibor as Depictions of Resistance and Escape from the Holocaust		 Paul Bartrop
Bialik College
Australia
     
  The Film Blessed is the Match:
The Life of Hanna Senesh		 Mary Johnson
Senior Historian
Facing History and Ourselves
     
Session 2: Art, Literary Media and the Press in Response to Genocide Old Main
    Chair: Dennis Downey
Honors College
Millersville University
     
  Survivors and Victims in the Postwar German Press: The Personnel and Content of the Early Frankfurter Rundschau Robert Williams
American University
     
  Kurt Singer, Charlotte Salomon and the Jüdischer Kulturbund Adam J. Sacks
Brown University
     
  Writing the Genocide Memoir as Activism: The Case of Yolande Mukagasana and Esther Mujawayo Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi
Alabama A&M University
     
Session 3: Genocide in the Balkans and Central Europe Matisse Room
    Chair: John McLarnon
Millersville University
     
  Aspects of the Genocide against the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire Theofanis Malkidis
Democritus University of Thrace
Greece
     
  Saving Bulgaria’s Jews Zev-Hayyim Feyer
Claremont Graduate University
     
  The Righteous: Budapest 1944 Mario Fenyo
Bowie State University
     
4-6:15 p.m. The Miriam Fischel Lecture and Program Myers Auditorium
McComsey Hall
     
  Genocide, Cinema and Art: A Special Presentation and Discussion
  Introduction: Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University
  Hilary Helstein, Producer, As Seen Through These Eyes and Executive Director, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Judith Goldstein, Artist, Composer, Survivor of the Vilna Ghetto
  Film: AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES  
     
7:30 - 9 p.m. Concert Lyte Auditorium
  Musical Program
Dr. Robert Convery’s Songs of Children
In Memory of the Children of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp

A cantata for choir performed by the Millersville University Chorale under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell, with a special introduction by the Composer
     

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, open 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday, April 3
9-10:30 a.m. The Jack R. Fischel Lecture Lehr Room
     
  Introduction Jack R. Fischel
Millersville University
     
  Who Will Write Our History?
 Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto		 Samuel D. Kassow
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
10:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m.    
Session 4: The United States and Responses to Genocide University Room
  Chair: Robert Bookmiller
Millersville University
     
  Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the Office of U. S. High Commissioner, and Jewish Refugees in the Philippines, 1938-1939 Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University
     
  Philanthropy as an Agent of Genocide Rescue Keith Pomakoy, Adirondack Community College
     
Session 5: Culture, the Moral Universe and the Prevention of Genocide Klein Room
     
    Chair: Neil Leifert
    Pennsylvania State University
    Harrisburg
     
  What Was That Word “Shoah”?
The Holocaust and Israeli Cultural Discourse		 Aya Ben Naftaly
Massuah Institute of Holocaust Studies
Israel
     
  Africa as a New Moral Universe in the Rhetoric of Antisemitic German Colonizers during the Kaiserreich Christian Davis
College of Charleston
     
  Genocide Prevention in Contemporary Philosophy Barbara Meyer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
     
Session 6: Graduate Student Panel Matisse Room
     
    Chair: Keith D. Nunes
Kean University
     
  Early Warning Signs:
State Propaganda and the Seeds of Genocide
     
  An Appeal to the Emotions:
The Use of Propaganda as a Tool to the Masses		 Evan Alberhasky
Kean University
     
  The Politics of Fear Jeremy Chaudruc
Kean University
     
  Dictatorship and Democracy:
Considering Propaganda in Context		 Walter McGee
Kean University
     
12:30 p.m. -1:45 p.m. Lunch Break Gordinier Conference Center
Conference Book Exhibit, Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall open 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
     
2-3:30 p.m. The Beautiful Beast: The Life and Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese University Room
  Chair: Steven Rogers
Senior Historian
Office of Special Investigations
U. S. Department of Justice
  Daniel P. Brown
Moorpark College
California

Alice Tenenbaum
Holocaust Survivor
Auschwitz

Conference Book Exhibit

Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
 
     
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