The University of Vermont

College of Arts and Sciences

Center for Holocaust Studies

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Upcoming Events

(past events)

 

March 17, 2010

Professor Sergio Parussa, Wellesley College, author of the recent book Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Italian Writers and Judaism, will speak about Primo Levi.

Stay tuned for exact date and further details.

 

April 11, 2010

A symposium on Nazi-German and American eugenics compared.

Speakers will include:

  • Nancy Gallagher, author of Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State
  • Professor Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology at UVM
  • Dr. Patricia Heberer, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Further details to be announced.

 

April 27, 2010

Anna Hajkova, University of Toronto and Editor, Terezin Studies and Documents, will speak on Jewish life in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The lecture will take place in conjunction with a performance by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra of the Verdi Requiem, a piece performed by Jewish prisoners at Terezin as an act of defiance.

More details to follow.

 

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