2021-22

2021-22 Conferences and Panels

20th Anniversary ASU Summer Symposium on Film and Photography During and After the Holocaust To Be Held as a Hybrid Program from July 23-28, 2022

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Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies will hold the 20th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposiumfrom July 23-28, 2022. Our 20th Anniversary Symposium will focus on Film and Photography During and After the Holocaust. The language of instruction is English. The symposium will take place in the form of a hybrid event. Pandemic conditions permitting, we will hold in-person programs on the ASU campus. In addition, we will include ZOOM programs and also make it possible for teacher-participants to join virtually.

 

 

 

  

 


Sonderkommando photograph taken                                                                                                                                                       by a Jewish prisoner, crematorium V,                                                                                                                                                August 1944

To register for the public programs, click here: https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuirqzsuHNyiBD4novBMys2m15XBj7ob. The hybrid format will give us maximum flexibility to accommodate teacher-participants and the public. It will also enable us to connect to teachers, researchers and audiences in the High Country, US, Europe, Israel and elsewhere and Memorials and Centers abroad. Participating teachers will have the opportunity to learn from and converse with, among others, Prof Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University), Prof. Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College, Canada), Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (University of Miami), Sheryl Ochayon (Yad Vashem) and other accomplished Holocaust educators and scholars, also from the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Dr. Racelle Weiman (Florida) will serve as the symposium's co-director.

This year's symposium will highlight the role of film and photography during and after the Holocaust and include specific sessions on "Nazi Propaganda and the Uses and Abuses of Film," "Photography and Nazi Propaganda," "The Nazi-Established Ghettos and Concentration Camps in Eastern Europe: Resistance and the Use of Photography in the Face of Extermination," "Indonesian Lullaby: Depicting Survival in the Netherlands in Film" and more.

For more information about the symposium, registration, and available scholarships, please click here or contact the Center at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu.

Center Partners with Southeast German Studies Consortium and Bar Ilan University to Bring Its Next International Workshop to ASU (March 24-25)

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In late March, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies will co-host the Fourteenth Southeast Studies Consortium Workshop on the ASU campus. After the pandemic forced us to first postpone and then move the previous workshop online, we will now convene the next meeting with German and Jewish studies scholars from across the region and abroad on our campus in March 2022 (pandemic conditions permitting). The 2022 workshop will focus on "The Haskalah and European Enlightenment Revisited" as well as on "Teaching German and German-Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century" and "Democracy: Past, Present, Future." The event also includes a cooperation with the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia at Bar Ilan University in Israel. The programs are open to the public and free of charge. For more information, see here and contact the Center at holocaust@appstate.edu or 828.262.2311.


 Renowned Israeli Historian Prof. Shmuel Feiner to Shed New Light on the Haskalah in In-Person Center Lecture (March 24)

feiner_1.pngThe Center welcomes the public to an in-person presentation by Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan) on "The Haskalah Project of Secularization: Challenging ‘The Religious Turn.’" The event will take place at the Reich College of Education, Lecture Hall 124 ABC, on Thursday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m. Prof. Feiner is one of the foremost authorities on the Jewish Enlightenment and among Israel's most distinguished historians. At Bar Ilan, he holds a professorship in Modern Jewish History as well as the prestigious Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia. 

Prof. Feiner's talk will also function as the keynote address of the 2022 Southeast Studies Consortium Workshop that explores, among others, "The Haskalah and European Enlightenment Revisited." The lecture is open to the public and free of charge. ASU's pandemic policies and mask requirements are in effect. For this in-person event, we also offer virtual access via ZOOM. Please register at https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qdemspz4jG9Wg4hfIt-z30F6dHR4Cx5bE before the start of his lecture. For more information, see here and contact the Center at holocaust@appstate.edu or 828.262.2311.