Registrants will receive pre-conference materials by June 15, 2024.
Please note that this schedule is tentative and thus subject to change.
* indicates an event that is open to the public. We hope you can join us in person or via Zoom!
Thursday, July 11, 2024
02:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Teacher Registration at Thunder Hill Residence Hall
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM: 'She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots' Documentary Screening & Talkback with Artist Victoria Milstein - Living Learning Academic Center Room 205 (The Great Hall) & via Zoom *
- This is a hybrid event. To register for the webinar, click here.
07:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
Friday, July 12, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - Reich College of Education (RCOE) Room 124
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM: Break
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “Judaism 101” with TBD - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture: “Foundations of Teaching the Holocaust, History & Pedagogy” with Rebecca Keel - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM: Lunch (On Your Own)
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Lecture: “Antisemitism: Understanding & Countering This Hatred Today” with Rebecca Keel - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM: Break
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Conversations: “Teaching Traumatic Material Without Causing Trauma” with Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM: Break
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM: Transportation from Residence Hall to Temple of the High Country
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM: Shabbat Service with Rabbi Alty Weinreb - Temple of the High Country
07:30 PM - 09:00 PM: Shabbat Dinner - Temple of the High Country
09:00 PM - 09:30 PM: Transportation from Temple of the High Country to Residence Hall
Saturday, July 13, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM: Break
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 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Transportation from RCOE to the Valle Crucis Apple Barn
11:30 AM - 01:30 PM: Kosher Cookout featuring Klezmer Band Freylach Time! - Valle Crucis Apple Barn (* Open to the Public with Ticket Purchase)
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM: Transportation from Valle Crucis Apple Barn to RCOE
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM: Conversations: Children of Liberators Panel with Cristy Phillips, Mark Wygoda & Anne Patton - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM: Lecture: “Experiences as an African American Liberator of the Camps” with John Withers - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
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 & via Zoom
- This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM: Break
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 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break
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 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
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 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM: Break
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Workshop: “Connect Students to Your Local Jewish History” with Lee Holder & NCCAT - 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 & via Zoom *
- This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
Monday, July 15, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM: Break
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “Cartoonists Against The Holocaust” with Dr. Rafael Medoff - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
- This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Workshop: “Addressing Erasure: Using Memoir & Art-Making to Teach About 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 - Anne Belk Hall Suite 250
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM: Workshop: “A Lesson Plan: The White Rose Student Research Project” (Co-Workshop with ELA Teachers) with Lee Holder & Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM: Break
03:15 PM - 05:00 PM: Art Exhibit: Self-Guided Tour of the “Looming in the Shadow of Lodz” Art Exhibit - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
05:15 PM - 07:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Free Time
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 09:00 AM: Break
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “The Power of Diaries & Narratives to Teach the Holocaust: An Extension of 'Looming in the Shadow of Lodz'” with Leslie Starobin - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Workshop: “Teaching about Antisemitism & Its History: Why It Is Important in Today’s Classroom?” with Amy Clark, Lee Holder & Juanita Ray - RCOE Room 124
12:15 PM - 02:00 PM: Lunch (On Your Own)
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM: Conversations: “Survivors of WWII & the Holocaust” with Zohara Boyd & Peter Petschauer - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM: Break
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM: Workshop: “How to Use the Ken Burns Film 'The U.S. & the Holocaust' in the Classroom” with Amy Clark, Lee Holder & Juanita Ray - RCOE Room 124
05:00 PM - 07:00 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 & via Zoom *
- This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
08:15 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
08:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Workshop with Lee Holder & Amy Hudnall - RCOE Room 124
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Post-Symposium Evaluation - RCOE Room 124
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM: Symposium Award Ceremony - RCOE Room 124 & via Zoom *
- This is a hybrid event. To join the webinar via Zoom, click here. The passcode is 0000.