Registrants will receive pre-conference materials by June 15, 2024.
Please note that this schedule is tentative and thus subject to change.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM: Teacher Registration at Residence Hall - Location TBA
Evening: Dinner (On Your Own)
08:15 PM - 09:00 PM: Documentary Screening: She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots - Living Learning Academic Center Room 205 (The Great Hall)
Friday, July 12, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - Reich College of Education (RCOE) Room 124
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: TBA on Judaism 101 - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture: Rebecca Keel on Holocaust Background - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM: Lunch (On Your Own)
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Workshop: “Echoes & Reflections” with Rebecca Keel - RCOE Room 124
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Conversations: “Dealing With Students & Traumatic Materials Well” with Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
05:30 PM: Ride from Residence Hall to Temple of the High Country (1043 West King Street)
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM: Shabbat Service with Rabbi Alty - Temple of the High Country
07:30 PM - 09:00 PM: Dinner - Temple of the High Country
09:00 PM: Ride from Temple of the High Country to Residence Hall
Saturday, July 13, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
09:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Lecture: “Learning from the Past: Facing Difficult History in the U.S. & Germany” with Dr. Tom White - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
11:00 AM - 02:00 PM: Kosher Cookout featuring Klezmer Band - Location TBA
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM: Conversations: Panel of Liberators & Children of Liberators - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM: Lecture: “Experiences as an African American Liberator of the Camps” with John Withers - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Lecture: “Purity, Eugenics & Lethal Medicine” with Dr. Tom White - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
Sunday, July 14, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “To Hope & Back: The Journey of the St. Louis & Using Books for Your Students Successfully” with Kathy Kacer - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture & Documentary Screening: “After Night: Painting Responses to the Holocaust Memoir Night by Elie Wiesel” with Dr. Rob Simon - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM: Lunch (On Your Own)
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Lecture: “History of North Carolina Jews & Antisemitism, 1700s-1950” with Leonard Rogoff - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Workshop: “Connect Students to Your Local Jewish History” with Lee Holder - RCOE Room 124
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Keynote Lecture: “America’s Response to the Holocaust: A Moral Challenge for Every Generation” with Dr. Rafael Medoff - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
Monday, July 15, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
09:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Art Exhibit: Tour of the Eric Godal Exhibit with Dr. Rafael Medoff - Belk Library & Information Commons (App State Campus)
10:45 PM - 12:15 PM: Workshop: “Actualizing the Effective Use of Art to Teach the Holocaust” with Lee Holder & Dr. Rob Simon - RCOE Room 124
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM: Lunch & Center for Judaic, Holocaust & Peace Studies Open House - RCOE Room 250
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Workshop: “A Lesson Plan: The White Rose Student Research Project” with Lee Holder & Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Art Exhibit: Self-Guided Tour of the “Looming in the Shadow of Lodz” Exhibit - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (App State Campus)
05:15 PM - 07:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: TBA
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “The Power of Diaries and Narratives to Teach the Holocaust: An Extension of 'Looming in the Shadow of Lodz'” with Leslie Starobin - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Workshop: “Teaching about Antisemitism and Its History: Why It Is Important in Today’s Classroom?” with Lee Holder - RCOE Room 124
12:15 PM - 02:00 PM: Lunch (On Your Own)
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM: Conversations: Meet Zohara Boyd (Holocaust Survivor) & Dr. Peter Petschauer (Child of SS Officer) - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM: Workshop: “How to Use the Ken Burns Film 'The U.S. & the Holocaust' in the Classroom” with Lee Holder - RCOE Room 124
05:15 PM - 06:45 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Keynote Lecture: “The Critical Rise of Antisemitism Today” with Rabbi Dr. Michael Berenbaum - RCOE Room 124 & Recorded
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 10:30 PM: Workshop with Lee Holder & Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Post-Symposium Evaluation - RCOE Room 124
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM: Award Ceremony