October 6, 2015
"Casablanca," Hitler’s Refugees, and the Hollywood Screen
Noah Isenberg, The New School
Underwritten by the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professorship for Holocaust Studies Fund and Miller Endowment
October 7-8, 2015
Symposium: Exil und Shoah/Exile and the Holocaust
Conveners:
Bettina Bannasch (University of Augsburg) and Alan E. Steinweis (University of Vermont), in cooperation with Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont).
Ein Exilant unter Exilanten. Raul Hilbergs frühe Jahre in den USA 1939-1961 René Schlott, Center for Research in Contemporary History, Potsdam
Write and Resist: Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann on the Role of Natural Law in Fighting Nazi Tyranny Douglas G. Morris, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.
Friedrich Pollock and the Rethinking of Anti-Semitism in American Exile, 1939-1945 Philipp Lenhard, University of Munich
William G. Niederland und die Ursprünge des "Überlebenden-Syndroms" Claudia Moisel, University of Munich
“When the Facts about Auschwitz Came Through...”-Der traumatische Einbruch der Shoah ins Exil: von den ersten Berichten und Zeugnissen (1942/43) hin zum Versuch, Vernichtung in Sprache zu fassen Primus-Heinz Kucher, University of Klagenfurt
“Ungerettet gerettet”: die Shoah in der Exillyrik Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont
“Wir sind absolut und ganz im Exil” – Exil als conditio humana in der Essayistik Margarete Susmans Gerhild Rochus, University of Augsburg
Re-Interpretationen Shylocks. Alexander Granachs Briefe aus dem Exil Mona Körte, Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin
Lion Feuchtwangers Deutung der nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgung Sophia Dafinger, University of Augsburg
Exilliteratur als Literatur des Überlebens: zum Beispiel Peter Weiss Doerte Bischoff, University of Hamburg
“Der mit den sechs Millionen gestorben ist...” - Groteske Narrative der Verweigerung: Identität und Begrifflichkeiten des Exils am Beispiel Edgar Hilsenraths Anna Zachmann, University of Augsburg
Nirgendwo war Heimat (2012): Die Rezeption der Shoah in Stefanie Zweigs Exilromanen Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College
Underwritten by the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professorship of Holocaust Studies at UVM.
October 16, 2015
Mixed Marriages in Nazi Germany
Maximilian Strnad, University of Munich
Underwritten by The Richard Ader/Paul Konigsberg Endowment for the UVM Center for Holocaust Studies
November 2, 2015
The Annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture
Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940-45
Marion Kaplan, New York University
The Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture is made possible through a generous gift from Jerold D. Jacobson, Esquire, of New York City, UVM Class of 1962
November 12, 2015
Survival Underground: Jews in Hiding in Poland and Germany during the Holocaust A mini-symposium featuring Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, and Susanna Schrafstetter, University of Vermont
Underwritten by the Kinsler Endowment for Holocaust Studies at UVM
Co-sponsored by the Russian and East European Studies Program
Monday, March 9, 2015
On the Margins of the Holocaust: Hunting Down the Jews in Poland
Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa
Underwritten by the Altschuler Endowment for Holocaust Studies.
Co-sponsored by the UVM Russian and East European Program.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Annual Harry H. Kahn Memorial Lecture
Forgetting and Remembering the Nazi Past in Munich: Observations from Up Close
Alan E. Steinweis, University of Vermont
Sponsored by the Department of German and Russian
Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Story Behind the Sandcastle Girls: The Centennial of the Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing About
Chris Bohjalian
Sponsored by the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies and the Middle East Studies Program.
April 14, 2015
Annual Yom Hashoah Lecture
Grief: A History of the World’s First Holocaust Liberation Photograph, David Shneer, University of Colorado
Underwritten by the Richard Ader/Paul Konigsberg Endowment for the UVM Center for Holocaust Studies
April 18-19, 2015
The Seventh Miller Symposium:Responses in the Middle East to National Socialism and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
Contemporary Reactions in the Middle East to Nazism and the Holocaust: Scholarship and the "War of Narratives"
Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Get out of Mosul, Hajj Amin: Iraqi Elites, Iraqi Jews, and Nazism
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
Demon and Heretic: Intellectual Representations of Hitler and Nazism in the Egyptian Public Sphere, 1938-1945”
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Rescue or Rejection: Facts and Myths about Turkey and the Holocaust
Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg
Defining the Nation and its Other: Discussing Nazi Ideology in Syria and Lebanon during the 1930s
Götz Nordbruch, Georg Eckert Institut-Leibnitz Institut, Braunschweig
The Persecution of the Jews in Germany in Egyptian and Palestinian Public Discourses: A Comparative Perspective
Esther Webman, Tel Aviv University
Underwritten by the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Distinguished Professorship for Holocaust Studies, and co-sponsored by the UVM Middle East Studies Program.
April 20, 2015
Symposium: Nazi Looting, the Monuments Men, and Art Restitution Today
Nazi-Era Looting and Restitution: The Saga Continues
Dr. Sharon Flescher, Executive Director, International Foundation for Art Research, New York
From Art Historian to Art Sleuth: Conducting Nazi-era Provenance Research at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Dr. Victoria Reed, Sadler Curator for Provenance Research, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Five Uncomfortable and Difficult Topics Relating to the Restitution of Nazi Looted Art
Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul Professor of European History, Claremont McKenna College
Symposium organizers: Anthony Grudin and Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio (both of the UVM Department of Art and Art History
Sponsored by: Department of Art and Art History, UVM Humanities Center, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, and the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.
