Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point
Southern Methodist University
Fall 2009
**August 24
Title: Opening, Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit, There Was a Forest: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
The photographs in this series, created throughout Poland and Ukraine , document the disappearing population of Holocaust survivors and their lives within the vanishing shtetls (small towns) of Eastern Europe . The work also offers a glimpse into the reemergence of Jewish life and culture in Central and Eastern Europe that is beginning to transform some of the larger communities.
Location: SMU Hamon Arts Library Gallery
**September 9
Title: Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point, Opening Event and Reception
Photo Exhibit: “Places of Memory”
This event will raise the issues and preview the fall events. Professor Halperin will give a historical overview, and will moderate a panel on Shoah as Turning Point. Panelists: Mr. Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum , Professors Chris Anderson (Theology), Janis Bergman-Carton (Art History), and Tom Mayo (Law).
Location: SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum, 7:30–10 p.m. (Reception 7 –7:30 p.m.)
**September 10 (two events)
Speaker: Professor Jan Gross, Princeton University (History), author of Neighbors and Fear
*Title: Seminar on the Polish reception of Neighbors and Fear.
Location: University of Dallas (room and time in the afternoon, to be announced).
*Title: The Killing and Plunder of the Jews by Their Neighbors in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Location: SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum, 7–10 p.m.
**September 11
Title: Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit, There Was a Forest: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
Location: Lecture, SMU O’Donnell Lecture Hall, 6 p.m.
Reception: SMU Taubman Atrium, Meadows School of the Arts, 7 p.m.
Photography exhibit location: SMU Hamon Arts Library Gallery
**September 17
Title: From the Nuremberg Code to the Belmont Report and the Final Rule: The Protection of Human Research Subjects in the 21st Century
Lecture and Panel Discussion
Speaker: Professor Thomas Beauchamp, Georgetown University (Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics), primary author of the Belmont Report.
Location: SMU McCord Auditorium, 7–10 p.m.
**October 8
Title: Beyond the Victim Monument
Speaker: Professor Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh (Art History), author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monuments in Nineteenth-Century America .
Location: The Sixth Floor Museum ( 411 Elm St. Dallas 75202 ), 5:30–6:30 p.m.
**October 22
Title: The Holocaust in Contemporary Consciousness, Culture and Curriculum
Speaker: Mr. Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance
Location: Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance ( 211 N. Record Street , Dallas 75202 ), 7–9:30 p.m. (Reception following presentation)
**November 5 (two events)
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Speaker: Professor Jenia Turner ( SMU Dedman School of Law)
Location: SMU Umphrey Lee Center , luncheon event
Title: God on Trial: The Meaning of the Shoah for Jewish and Christian Theology Today (film screening and discussion)
Discussants: Rabbi Ari Perl, President of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas, Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Tefilla, Dallas; Professor John Holbert, Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics, SMU Perkins School of Theology.
This event will include screening and discussion of the film, God on Trial (which depicts a fictional “trial” of God by prisoners at Auschwitz ).
Location: SMU Perkins School of Theology Prothro Great Hall, 5–10 p.m.
**November 12
Symposium: Holocaust Survivors: Stories of Resilience
Presenters: Roberta R. Greene, PhD, MSW, PI, John Templeton Foundation (JTF) grant, University of Texas, School of Social Work, and Harriet L. Cohen, PhD, MSW, co-investigator JTF, Texas Christian University, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of Social Work
A panel comprised of Holocaust historians, educators, and survivors, gerontologists, social workers and pastoral care clergy will discuss findings from a study on resilience,
forgiveness, and survivorship among older Holocaust survivors, as described by the participants of a recent mixed methods national study of 133 Holocaust survivors aged 68 to 9.
Location: SMU Perkins School of Theology Prothro Great Hall, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
**November 15
Title: Closing: Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit, There Was a Forest: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
Location: SMU Hamon Arts Library Gallery
**November 19
Title: Music Out of the Ashes
Performers: Professors Virginia Dupuy ( SMU Meadows School of the Arts), Chris Anderson ( SMU Perkins School of Theology) and John Holbert ( SMU Perkins School of Theology)
This lecture/performance will focus on Victor Ullmann’s “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” an opera written in Theresienstadt but not performed until the 1970s. The evening will include scenes from the opera interspersed with commentary about the camp, the music, and the composer.
Location: SMU Perkins School of Theology Prothro Great Hall, 5 – 10 p.m.
**November 23
Title: Is Art Worth a Life?: Hitler, War and the Monuments Men (interactive presentation with slides and video clips)
Presenter: Robert Edsel, the author of Rescuing DaVinci and The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, co-producer of the documentary film Rape of Europa, and founding President of the Monuments Men Foundation, an organization dedicated to the recovery and preservation of Nazi-looted art.
Location: SMU Perkins School of Theology Prothro Great Hall, 5 – 10 p.m.
Elliott Dlin
Executive Director
Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance
211 North Record Street, Suite 100
Dallas, TX 75202-3361
Tel: 214-741-7500 x101
Fax: 214-741-7510
www.dallasholocaustmuseum.org
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, and to teaching the moral and ethical response to prejudice, hatred and indifference, for the benefit of all humanity.
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