Justice and Memory After the Holocaust

An important Holocaust conference that promises to be interesting and informative will be held on November 17, 2013 in Overland Park, Kansas at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.  The MCHE and the Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable (HEART) present Justice and Memory After the Holocaust, an interdisciplinary conference for faculty and graduate students (the conference is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

If you are in driving distance to Overland Park, I highly recommend attending.  There are two hotels nearby.  Specific information is included on the MCHE website here.  

Sessions include: Art after the Holocaust, Gender and Gendering in Holocaust Films, Music after the Holocaust, The Holocaust and Contemporary Genocides, the Nuremberg Trials, and several other sessions on various topics.  Dr. Gabriel Finder of the University of Virginia will be the featured speaker. He will speak at a session in the morning, and in the afternoon he will  introduce the Yiddish-language film Undzere Kinder (Our Children).  The film portrays two child survivors of the Holocaust in postwar Lodz who live in an orphanage and encounter two Jewish comedians who spent the war in the USSR.  Dr. Finder will also lead a discussion following the film.

For more information, contact Fran Sternberg at frans@mchekc.org or call her at 913-327-8194.

NOTE: Student groups of five or more (undergraduate or graduate) receive a discounted rate of $30 per student. Professors, check with the MCHE for more details.

JUSTICE AND MEMORYAFTER THE HOLOCAUST Sunday, November 17, 2013 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Registration begins at 8:15 Jewish Community Campus 5801 West 115th Street Overland Park, KS  66211 Presented by: Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Holocaust Education Academic Roundtable

PROGRAM

The conference will explore responses to and remembrance and representation of the Holocaust from the immediate postwar period to the present. 

 for a listing of plenary sessions and facilitated workshops. For more information contact Fran Sternberg, Director of University Programs and Adult Education, at frans@mchekc.org or 913-327-8194.

REGISTRATION

DEADLINE: October 28, 2013
Due to limited space, registrations received after that date will be honored as space permits. Cancellations received prior to two weeks before the conference will be reimbursed in full. 

REGISTRATION FEES: 
University Faculty - $60 
Graduate Students - $40
Fees include conference materials, light breakfast and light refreshments.