Please note that this schedule (last updated July 24, 2025) is tentative and subject to change.
* indicates an event open to the public. We hope you can join us in person or via Zoom!
Thursday, July 10, 2025
4:30 - 6:30 PM: Teacher Check-In at Thunder Hill Residence Hall
6:30 - 8:30 PM: Teacher Picnic at Thunder Hill Residence Hall
Friday, July 11, 2025
8:00 AM - 08:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - Reich College of Education (RCOE) Room 124
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “Forgetting Is Dangerous: Spiritual Resistance in Latvia” with Laurie Schaefer *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 998958).
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture: “Rebuilding Jewish Life After the Holocaust” with Jennifer Goss *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 377947).
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Lecture: “The Twisted Road to Auschwitz” with Tom White *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 812577).
3:00 PM - 5:15 PM: Lecture: “On Judaism” with Chuck Lieberman *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 424865).
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Shabbat at the Temple of the High Country
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Oneg at Temple of the High Country
Saturday, July 12, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lecture: “Civil Society Between Darkness and Light: Danish Resistance and Rescue (1940-1946)” with Tom White *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 985631).
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Conversations: Survivor Shelly Weiner & Her Daughter Julie Weiner Wanderman, a Second-Generation Survivor *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 254432).
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Conversations: “Safely In, Safely Out” (on Teaching Traumatic Materials) with Amy Hudnall *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 079266).
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM: Lecture: “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich - An Overlooked Story” with Bill Choyke
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 278311).
4:15 PM On: Evening Off to Explore Boone
Sunday, July 13, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Conversations: Peter Petschauer & Zohara Boyd *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 270304).
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture & Film Screening: “After Night — Painting Responses to the Holocaust Memoir Night by Elie Wiesel” with Rob Simon *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 427474).
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Workshop: “Addressing Erasure: Using Memoir & Artmaking to Teach about the Holocaust” with Rob Simon & Lee Holder
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM: Film Screening: “Remember This” (about Jan Karski) *
- This event is not offered via Zoom, but it is open to the public.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Keynote Lecture: “Jan Karski: The Man and His Mission!” with Michael Berenbaum *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 865281).
Monday, July 14, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Conversations: Panel on Teachers by State (North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama) with Lee Holder, Amy McDonald, Alison Vick, & Teachers *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 553491).
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture: “Holocaust Denial & Distortion” with Mark Weitzman *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 479131).
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Lecture: “Accessing Holocaust Memory via the Creative Process” with Marty Herskovitz *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 412998).
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM: Lecture: “Children’s Books on the Holocaust” with Kathy Kacer *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 468463).
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Banquet (By Invitation Only)
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Workshop: “Connect Your Students to Their Local Jewish History: The North Carolina & Tennessee Survivors Project” with Lee Holder & Alison Vick
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Lecture: “Artificial Intelligence & Holocaust Distortion” with Alison Vick *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Zoom: 637847).
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Lecture: “A Siege within a Siege” with Yaron Pasher *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 476017).
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM: Workshop: “Using the Creative Process in Holocaust Studies to Foster Students' Development” with Marty Herskovitz
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Dinner (On Your Own)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Keynote Lecture: “On Antisemitism in America” with Mark Weitzman *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 343674).
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM: Reflections & Intentions - RCOE Room 124
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Workshop: Teacher Discussion with Lee Holder - RCOE Room 124
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Evaluations
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM: Awards Ceremony with Lee Holder, Amy Hudnall, & Vera Ripp Hirschhorn - RCOE Room 124 *
- This is a hybrid event. Click here to launch the meeting in Zoom (Passcode: 892989).
Then, join us for "New Insight on the Holocaust," an international conference held July 16-17, 2025, via Zoom. For details, see here.