MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY - 30th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
April 14-16, 2010
Holocaust and Genocide: A Half-Century of Changing Narratives
Conference Schedule
(Wednesday’s 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 14
Information and Contacts 5-6:30
2nd floor, Gordinier Conference Center
7-7:20 p.m. Opening of the Conference
Saulius Suñiedlis, Millersville University
Welcoming Remarks
Invocation
7:20-9:00 p.m. The Aristides de Sousa Mendes Lecture
Introduction: Why Aristides de Sousa Mendes?
Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
The Lecture: Babi Yar: The Holocaust in Soviet and Russian Literature and the Arts
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, University of Tulsa
The book exhibit organized by the Library of Social Sciences will be open during the Conference. Please stop by the Audubon and browse. All books are on sale at special, discounted prices.
Thursday, April 15
9-10:15 a.m. The Reynold Koppel Lecture Lehr Room
Introduction: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
Genocide by Bullet: The First Phase of the Holocaust
Peter Black, Senior Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
10:30-12:15 AM Individual Sessions
Session 1: “The Holocaust and Changing Theological Narratives”
Old Main Room, Gordinier
Chair: Joseph P. Huffman. Messiah College
Bonhoeffer and the Jews: The Essay of 1933
Michael Dickerman, Richard Stockton College
A Christian Post-Modern Hebrew Scholar Rethinks Biblical Choseness
Stephanie Day Powell, Drew University
Voluntary Covenant: A Critique of Irving Greenberg’s Post-Shoah Conception of Covenant
Amy W. Beth Jones, Drew University
Session 2: The Balkans, Africa and Genocide: Narratives
Matisse Room, Gordinier
Chair: Robert Bookmiller, Millersville University
The Greek Genocide (1908-1923) and the American Sources
Theofanis Malkidis, Democritus University of Thrace
Genocide in Cyprus, 1963-1974: Changing Narratives or Realized Reality?
J. D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University
The Role of Music and Music Education in Genocide: Three Case Studies
Amanda Byrd, Teachers College, Columbia University
Session 3: Rethinking Narratives and Sources on the Holocaust I
Kline Room, Gordinier
Chair: TBA
Making ‘Peter Bergson’: How to Reshape a Holocaust Narrative
Emily Horne, Office of the Historian, U. S. State Department
The Testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Partisans: Characterizing the Narrative of Resistance and Resilience by Self and others
Judith Kaplan-Weinger, Northeastern Illinois University
Yonit Hoffman, Independent Scholar
Rethinking Treblinka: Critical Analysis of the Sources Concerning Treblinka Extermination Camp
Tomáš Vojta, Charles University, Prague
Session 4: Rethinking Narratives and Sources on the Holocaust II
University Room, Gordinier
Chair: TBA
How ‘Collective’ is War’s Collective Memory?
Ruth Linn, University of Haifa
Homosexuals and the Holocaust: Liberating Stories through Film and Popular Media to Change the Narratives of Today
Mixon Ware and David Anderson, Eastern Kentucky University
Holocaust Denial and Heroization of Nazi Criminals in the Former Soviet Union
Igor Kotler, Museum of Human Rights, New York
12:30-1:45 p.m. Conference Luncheon and Presentation University Room
“Hitler and America”
Klaus Fischer, Allen Hancock College, California
2-3:45 PM Plenum Session – Anti-Semitism, Jewish Resistance and the War on Fascism in History and Collective Memory
Lehr Room, Gordinier
Chair: Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
Comment: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
After Babi Yar: The Influence of Nazi Propaganda on the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Kiev during World War II and in the Post-War Years (1941-1947)
Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
The Archives, Jewish Partisans and the Soviet Anti-Nazi Resistance
Šarūnas Liekis, Director, Yiddish Studies Institute, University of Vilnius
Resisting Genocide: Bisesero (Rwanda), Srebrenica (Bosnia), and the Bielskis in Poland Compared
Paul R. Bartrop, Deakin University and Bialik College, Australia
4-6:00 p.m. The Miriam Fischel Lecture and Program
Lehr Room, Gordinier
The Story of Jewish Defiance: A Special Presentation and Discussion
Introduction: Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University
Defenders or Protectors of the Jews? The Portrayal of Adam Czerniaków and the Warsaw Jewish Police in Three Feature Films
Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University, Jewish Studies Program
Memories of Resistance: the Bielsky Brothers
Zvi Bielsky, New York
Film: JERUSALEM IN THE WOODS
7:00-8:45 Evening program
Theater presentation: Light Keeper productions, “Only a Girl”
Friday, April 16
9-10:15 Plenum
Chair: Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
Art from Agony: Vasily Grossman and the Holocaust
John Garrard, University of Arizona
Carol Garrard, Independent Scholar
‘You’re forgetful—don’t you dare forget’: Jewish-Russian Poets Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College
10:30-12:15 – Plenum, Sponsored by Millersville University Honors College
Chair: Dennis Downey, Millersville University
Nazi Germany and Persecution of Persons with Disabilities
Giving a Face to a Faceless Crime: the ‘Euthanasia’ Program and the Persecution of Persons with Disabilities in Nazi Germany
Patricia Heberer, Senior Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Session 1: “The Holocaust and Changing Theological Narratives”
Bonhoeffer and the Jews: The Essay of 1933
Michael Dickerman, Richard Stockton College
A Christian Post-Modern Hebrew Scholar Rethinks Biblical Choseness
Stephanie Day Powell, Drew University
Voluntary Covenant: A Critique of Irving Greenberg’s Post-Shoah Conception of Covenant
Amy W. Beth Jones, Drew University
Session 2: The Balkans, Africa and Genocide: Narratives
The Greek Genocide (1908-1923) and the American Sources
Theofanis Malkidis, Democritus University of Thrace
Genocide in Cyprus, 1963-1974: Changing Narratives or Realized Reality?
J. D. Bowers, Northern Illinois University
The Role of Music and Music Education in Genocide: Three Case Studies
Amanda Byrd, Teachers College, Columbia University
Session 3: Rethinking Narratives and Sources on the Holocaust
Making ‘Peter Bergson’: How to Reshape a Holocaust Narrative
Emily Horne, Office of the Historian, U. S. State Department
The Testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Partisans: Characterizing the Narrative of Resistance and Resilience by Self and others
Judith Kaplan-Weinger, Northeastern Illinois University
Yonit Hoffman, Independent Scholar
Rethinking Treblinka: Critical Analysis of the Sources Concerning Treblinka Extermination Camp
Tomáš Vojta, Charles University, Prague
Session 4: Holocaust and Contemporary Issues: Society and Politics
Holocaust Denial and Heroization of Nazi Criminals in the Former Soviet Union
Igor Kotler, Museum of Human Rights, New York
Homosexuals and the Holocaust: Liberating Stories through Film and Popular Media to Change the Narratives of Today
Mixon Ware and David Anderson, Eastern Kentucky University