30th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series, Spring 2013
Seeds of Rememberance
January 15 - May 7, 2013
Tuesdays from 4:00PM-5:40PM in
Warren Auditorium (Ives Hall 101)
SSU Students
SOCI 305, Perspectives on the Holocaust and Genocide counts as upper-division General Education credit under GE category D5, and towards the B.A. Degree in CCJ, English, Global Studies, History, Liberal Arts, Nursing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies.
Lecture Series Coordinator
Sponsors
The Holocaust Lecture Series is sponsored by the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, The Paul V. Benko Holocaust Education Endowment, the Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture Fund, the Adele Zygielbaum Endowment, the Thomas Family Foundation, the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, the Sonoma State Students’ Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Fund and the Jewish Community Federation (JCF) of San Francisco, the Peninsula,Marin and Sonoma Counties.
Parking
A daily parking permit ($5.00) is required 24hrs. Daily permits are not valid in reserve lots. Some permit machines accept quarters only.
Video Archives
Many of our lectures are archived on the Holocaust Lecture Series playlist on YouTube. Some lectures are archived on SSU's streaming video server.
Spring 2013 Schedule Of Lectures
January 15: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
Course Faculty
January 22: THE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Stephen Bittner, Ph.D., Sonoma State University
January 29: BREAKING THE SILENCE: A HOLOCAUST CHILDHOOD
Paul A. Schwarzbart
February 5: FROM NIGHTMARE TO FREEDOM
Lillian and Dennis Judd, Holocaust Generations: Parent and Child
February 12: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Sergio LaPorta, Ph.D., CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program Armenian Genocide Memorial Lecture
February 19: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: TRANSITIONING FROM GENOCIDE TO JUSTICE
Leyla Mavris, Vice President, Global Majority
February 26: GENOCIDE IN SUDAN
Hamdan Gouumaa, Global Majority
March 5: THE AFTERMATH TO GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
Mathilde Mukantabana, M.A. and M.S.W., Cosumnes Community College, and President, Friends of Rwanda Assn. (FORA) and Simon Mudahogora, Rwandan Survivor
March 12: FIGHTING GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES:EMPOWERING HANDS-ON ACTION
Mina Rush, Director of Outreach, Jewish World Watch
March 19: SPRING BREAK (campus closed)
March 26: WE EXIST! DESCENDANTS OF THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE SPEAK OUT
Lucia Roncalli, M.D. and Sonoma County 2nd generation Cambodian survivors
April 2: BECOMING EVIL
James Waller, Ph.D., Cohen Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College
April 9: THE TEXTURE OF MEMORY:HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS AND MEANING
James E. Young, Ph.D., Professor of English and Judaic Studies,University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert L. Harris Memorial Lecture
April 16: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A HOLOCAUST CHILDHOOD
Hans Angress
April 23: REMEMBERING JAN KARSKI: A HOLOCAUST HERO
E. Thomas Wood, Journalist and Historian, Nashville,TN
Adele Zygielbaum Memorial Lecture
April 30: PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES
Eric Williams, Ph.D., Sonoma State University
May 7: GENOCIDE BENEATH OUR FEET
Brenda Flyswithhawks, Ph.D., Santa Rosa Junior College