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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Holocaust and Masculinities
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday 1st June at 8pm for a Online Webinar with a panel of experts on “The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries Into the Presence and Absence of Men.” \nTo receive Zoom link\, please register using the following link:\nhttps://forms.gle/N5g8KxttoFjTsP2F6 \nThe webinar will also be broadcast live on our Facebook page. \n\n\nAn acclaimed panel of experts will discuss what can be learned when applying a consciously gendered approach to the historical\, social and political realities of genocide. \n\nPanellists\n\n\n \n\n\nBjörn Krondorfer is Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. His field of expertise is religion\, gender and culture\, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. His scholarship helped to define the field of Critical Men’s Studies in Religions. In 2007-08\, he was guest professor at the Institute of Theology and the History of Religion at the Freie University Berlin\, Germany\, and he held the status of visiting Faculty Affiliate at the University of the Free State\, South Africa. He received a Senior Research Fellowship at the Research Institute CLUE+ (in affiliation with Faculty of Theology) at the Vrije University in Amsterdam (2016/2017) and he is the recipient of the Norton Dodge Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievements. He has been invited to speak\, present his research and facilitate intercultural seminars in Armenia\, Australia\, Austria\, Belgium\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Italy\, Israel & Palestine\, Poland\, South Africa\, South Korea\, Switzerland\, The Netherlands\, United Kingdom and the United States.\n\n\n \n\n\nPublications include Unsettling Empathy: Working with Groups in Conflict (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2020); The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men (SUNY 2020); Reconciliation in Global Context: Why it is Needed and How it Works (SUNY\, 2018); Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (Stanford UP\, 2010); Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism (London\, SCM\, 2009); Men’s Bodies\, Men’s Gods (New York UP\, 1996); Remembrance and Reconciliation (Yale UP\, 1995); and Body and Bible (Trinity Press\, 1992). He guest-edited four journal issues: Strangers or Neighbors? Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian Perspectives on Refugees (CrossCurrents 2018)\, Antisemitism and Islamophobia (CrossCurrents 2015)\, Masculinities and Religion (Religion and Gender 2012)\, and Embattled Masculinities in the Religious Traditions (CrossCurrents 2011). He also published three volumes in German on the cultural and theological legacy of the Holocaust\, and edited Edward Gastfriend’s My Father’s Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager\, 1938-1945 (Temple UP\, 2000). He serves on several editorial and advisory boards.\n\n\n \n\n\nAs director of the Martin-Springer Institute\, he has organized several international academic symposia and has mentored the creation of several exhibits\, Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto; Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present; and on the Berlin Wall. He has curated the art exhibitions Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018). He has been awarded a one-month residential fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute on the theme of “truth and reconciliation” (2019).\n\n\n \n\n\nMonika Rice is an Assistant Professor and Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program at Gratz College. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She is the author of “What! Still Alive?! Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming” (Syracuse University Press\, 2017; Choice Outstanding Academic Title)\, as well as chapters in edited volumes and articles exploring postwar identities of Polish Jews\, and Polish-Jewish relations.\n\n\n \n\n\nLisa Pine is Associate Professor of History at London South Bank University\, UK. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and obtained her doctorate from the University of London in 1996. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her main research interests are the social history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. She is the author of Nazi Family Policy\, 1933-1945 (Berg\, 1997)\, Hitler’s “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (Hodder\, 2007; Bloomsbury\, 2017)\, Education in Nazi Germany (Berg\, 2010) and Debating Genocide (Bloomsbury\, 2018). She is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (Bloomsbury\, 2016) and The Family in Modern Germany (Bloomsbury\, 2020). She has also published many journal articles and chapters in books including: ‘Germany’\, in A. J. Angulo (ed.)\, Miseducation: A History of Ignorance Making in America and Abroad (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016); ‘Testimonies of Trauma: Surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau’\, in P. Leese and J. Crouthamel (eds)\, Traumatic Cultures: World War Two and After (Palgrave\, 2016); ‘The Family and Private Life’\, in C. Szejnmann\, S. Baranowski and A. Nolzen (eds)\, A Companion to Nazi Germany (John Wiley and Sons Ltd.\, 2018); ‘The Experiences of Male Holocaust Victims at Auschwitz’\, in B. Krondorfer and O. Creanga (eds)\, The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men (SUNY Press\, 2020).\n\n\n \n\n\nRobert Sommer is a Berlin historian and scholar in Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany in 2009. His research focuses on sexuality and sexual exploitation in Nazi concentration camps as well as prostitution politics in the “Third Reich”. For his dissertation on camp brothels\, he conducted research in 70 archives in Germany\, Poland and the U.S.A. and 30 interviews with survivors of the holocaust. He has been working as research associate for the concentration camp memorials of Ravensbrück and Flossenbürg and for various documentaries such as the BBC documentary “Auschwitz. The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution'”. He is the author of Das KZ-Bordell: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern [The Camp Brothel: Forced Sexual Labor in National Socialist concentration camps](Schöningh\, Paderborn 2009). Sommer teaches at various universities such as DePaul University (Chicago) and Hampshire College (Amherst\, Massachusetts). He currently is the curator of the exhibition of photographs by Richard Wiesel called “Objects from the Concentration Camps: Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen”.
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SUMMARY:The Litvaks on the Stage of Jewish (and World) History by Dovid Katz
DESCRIPTION:This talk survey of Jewish history jumping rapidly from Biblical times to the advent of Ashkenaz\, more slowly to the rise of Líte (Lita)\, and in greater detail on Jewish Lithuania itself\, from the fourteenth century to 1941. \n\nDovid Katz\, a Vilnius-based Yiddish and Holocaust scholar\, has taught at Oxford\, Yale and Vilnius universities. He edits the web journal Defending History and is at work on  a new Yiddish Cultural Dictionary. \nThis event forms part of the Mervyn Smith Memorial Lecture Series \nRegister for events in this lecture series using the link below:\nhttp://ctholocaust.co.za/katz/
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SUMMARY:Liberation and the return to Life by Ephraim Kaye
DESCRIPTION:Register for the Webinar using the link:\nhttp://ctholocaust.co.za/Kaye/ \nThis presentation will raise two major questions that survivors were confronted with after their liberation; Where do we go? What do we do with our lives? A number of survivors will provide their personal answers to these questions and through their answers will inspire us with the hope\, faith and resilience they had in spite of what they  lost and suffered.  \nEphraim Kaye has a BA and an MA in Modern Jewish History and the History of the Holocaust from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1978-2000 he taught in the Israeli high school system. During this time he taught courses on the Holocaust at several different colleges in Jerusalem. Since 1980 he has been involved in Holocaust research and education. \nIn 1988\, he joined the educational staff at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Since 1994\, he has been Director of the International Seminars at The International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. During this time\, he has coordinated and led over 450 international seminars from over 20 countries in 8 different languages. \nOver the past 30 years\, he has led and guided more than 17 trips to Poland for high school students\, graduates of the Yad Vashem seminars and IDF Officers. In 2015 he became the Director for the Jewish World and International Seminars. From 1999 to 2020\, he has organized 10 International Conferences on Holocaust education at the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem. \nEphraim has been a guest speaker and lecturer in different Holocaust centers and conferences throughout the world – among them\, Beth Shalom in England; Ravenna in Italy; Frankfurt in Germany; Vilna in Lithuania; Melbourne\, Sydney\, Perth\, Adelaide\, Brisbane\, Canberra and Darwin in Australia; Toronto\, Montreal and Winnipeg in Canada; Hong Kong\, Macau\, Shanghai\, Nanjing\, Kaifeng and Xian in China; Wellington\, New Zealand; and throughout the USA and Canada in different Holocaust Centers and schools.
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