2022 Symposium Schedule
Pandemic conditions and University policies permitting, we will hold all sessions as in-person programs in the Grandview Ballroom at the North End Zone Building at Kidd Brewer Stadium, 135 Jack Branch Drive, on the ASU campus, Boone (with a few exceptions for events to be held elsewhere such as the local Temple and Belk Library).
With the exception of the workshops for the teacher-participants and the by-invitation-only events (clearly marked in the program), all of the events are open to the public.
Saturday, July 23
2:00 – 4:00pm Teacher Registration [Thunder Hill, ASU campus]
7:00 – 7:30 pm: By Invitation Only: Introductions:
Sheri Everts, Chancellor, ASU
Neva Specht, PhD, Vice Provost for Faculty Policies and Development, ASU
Mike Madritch, PhD, Dean, CAS, ASU
Molle Grad, former Community Advisory Board Member
Dr. Racelle Weiman (Florida), Symposium Co-Director, Teaching the Unteachable,
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (ASU), Symposium Co-Director, Film and Photography During and After the Holocaust
7:30 – 9:00pm: By Invitation Only: 20th Anniversary Banquet
Sunday, July 24
10:00 – 10:45am: What Is Judaism?, Rabbi Alty Weinreb (ToHC)
10:45 am – 12:00pm: The Mosaic that is the Mosaic People: Judaism and Jews, Dr. Racelle Weiman, Temple of the High Country, Boone
12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch with local Jewish Community at the Temple of the High Country, Boone
2:00 – 3:30pm: Humanizing Approaches to Holocaust Education: Interactive Introductions Facilitator: Dr. Racelle Weiman, at Belk Library, 218 College St. [for teacher-participants only]
3:30 – 5:30pm: Project Design Session I: Philosophy, Resources, and Group Formation, facilitator: Dr. Racelle Weiman (Kinston, NC) [for teacher-participants only]
5:30 – 7:00 pm: Dinner (Cafeteria, ASU campus) [for teacher-participants only]
7:00 - 9:00pm: Keynote: Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in European History and Visual Culture, Dr. Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University), at Belk Library
Monday, July 25
9:00 – 9:15 am: Opening Session/Agenda Overview/Questions; Dr. Weiman/Dr. Pegelow Kaplan, Reflection with teacher-participant
9:15 – 10:45 am: Destroying Democracy, Building Dictatorship: The Nazi Movement, Visual Culture and New Ways of Seeing, Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
10:45 – 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Nazi Visual Propaganda and the Holocaust, Christina Chavarria (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC)
12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch [for teacher-participants only]
1:30 – 3:00 pm: Project Design Session II: Individual Projects, Facilitator: Dr. Racelle Weiman [for teacher-participants only]
3:00 – 3:15 pm: Coffee Break
3:15 – 5:00 pm: Teacher Workshop I (with screenings of select film footage): Approaches to teaching Holocaust film; facilitators: Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff (Florida) & Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University) [for teacher-participants only]
5:00 – 7:00pm: Dinner (Cafeteria, ASU campus) [for teacher-participants only]
7:00 - 9:00 pm: Film Screening: Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022), directed by Bianca Stigter (followed by analysis from Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff and Prof. Michael Berenbaum)
Tuesday, July 26
8:30 - 9:15am: Opening Session and Questions Dr. Weiman/Dr. Pegelow Kaplan,
Discussion with Film Director (Three Minutes: A Lengthening) Bianca Stigter (Amsterdam)
9:15 - 10:45 am: Studying the Holocaust, Sheryl Ochayon (Yad Vashem/Echoes and Reflections)
10:45 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: The Nazi-Established Ghettos and Concentration Camps in Eastern Europe: Resistance and the Use of Photography in the Face of Extermination, Sheryl Ochayon (Yad Vashem/Echoes and Reflections)
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch [for teacher-participants only]
2:00 - 3:30 pm:Survivor Testimony: Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff [in conversation with Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan], Memory and Photographs: A Child Survivor Pieces Together Recollections and Documents of Escaping Nazi-controlled Europe
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:00 pm: Teacher Workshop II: Approaches to teaching with survivor testimony and visits; facilitators: Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff (Florida) & Thomas Pegelow Kaplan [for teacher-participants only]
5:00 - 7:00 pm: Dinner (Cafeteria, ASU campus) [for teacher-participants only]
7:00 - 9:00 pm: Survivor Testimony: From Le Chambon sur Lignon to Figeac: Documenting Survival in Hiding in Southern France in Photographs, Peter Feigl
Wednesday, July 27
9:00 - 9:15 am: Opening Session and Questions Dr. Weiman/Dr. Pegelow Kaplan, Reflection with teacher-participant
9:15 - 10:45am: Project Design Session III: Individual Projects, Facilitator: Dr. Racelle Weiman [for teacher-participants only]
10:45 - 11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00 - 1:00 pm: The Holocaust in Documentary Films: Producing ‘Vishniac’ (with screenings of select film footage), Laura Bialis (filmmaker, Israel)
1:00 - 2:15 pm Lunch [for teacher-participants only]
2:15 - 3:45 pm: Teacher Workshop III: Approaches to teaching the Holocaust through photography, Facilitator:Dr. Dorota Glowacka (King’s College, Canada) [for teacher-participants only]
3:45 - 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 pm: Project Design Session IV: Individual Projects, Facilitator: Dr. Racelle Weiman [for teacher-participants only]
5:30 - 7:00 pm: Dinner (Cafeteria, ASU campus) [for teacher-participants only]
7:00 - 9:00pm, Keynote: Understanding the Shoah Through Photography: Re-Framing Female Bodies in Holocaust Photographs, Dr. Dorota Glowacka
Thursday, July 28
9:15 - 9:30am: Opening Session/Questions Dr. Weiman/Dr. Pegelow Kaplan; Reflection with teacher-participant
9:30 - 11:30am: Are They Too Young? Genocide Education and Young Learners, Dr. Elizabeth Bellows (Reich College of Education, Appalachian State University)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Coffee break (grab lunch box and walk to Turchin Center) [for teacher-participants only]
12:00 - 1:30 pm: “A Central Visual Heritage of the Holocaust: The Wehrmacht and Anti-Jewish Propaganda,” Dr. Daniel Uziel (Ben Gurion University), Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (also Lunch & Learn Lecture Series, Appalachian Summer)
1:30 - 1:45 pm: Coffee break
1:45 - 3:45 pm: Project Design Session V: Participants’ Presentations for Excellence in Education
3:45 - 4:15 pm: Closing Circle and Graduation