20th Annual Sonoma State Univerisity

2003 Holocaust Lecture Series

 

February 4 - May 27, 2003
Tuesdays 4-5:40 p.m.

Warren Auditorium and The Cooperage
Free Public Lectures - Open to All

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 CJA, English, Global Studies, History, Liberal Arts, Nursing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology

Witnessing, Resisting, And Preventing Genocide

February 4: Introduction to the Series- Faculty Panel Major Concepts and Definitions
Myrna Goodman, Ph.D., Ilka Hartmann, M.A., Joel Neuberg, MLIS

February 11: Historical Background and Videos: Master Race 1933” and “The Genocide Factor”
Myrna Goodman, Ph.D., Ilka Hartmann, M.A., Joel Neuberg, MLIS

February 18: Historical Overview of the Holocaust
Elaine Leeder, Ph.D. Sonoma State University

February 25: Survivors’ Panel
Lucille Eichengreen and Lillian Judd

March 4: Myths of Race and the Influence of Racism on Genocide.
Michael Thaler, M.D., M.A. San Francisco

March 11: When Does Genocide End? The Armenian Case
Dickran Kouymjian, Ph.D., Director, Armenian Studies Program, CSU Fresno

March 18: The North American Indian Experience: The Bloody Island Massacre
Edward Castillo, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

March 25: Why Wasn’t Auschwitz Bombed?
Michael Berenbaum, Ph.D., Director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics Robert L. Harris Memorial Lecture. The Cooperage

April 1: Voices of the Shoah: The Sonderkommando Uprising
Mikko Alane, Historical Content Supervisor, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

April 7-11: Spring Recess

April 15: The Sociology of Genocide
Myrna Goodman, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

April 22: Resisting the Holocaust in Denmark
Knud Dyby, Novato

April 29: Genocide in Rwanda
Mathilde Mukantabana, M.S.W. President, Friends of Rwanda Association.

May 6: Rethinking the Holocaust
Yehuda Bauer, Ph.D., Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. The Cooperage

May 13: Facing Current Genocides
Jerry Fowler, Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington,D. C.

May 20: Legacies of the Holocaust: Second Generation Panel
Rhonda Findling, Blair Pleasant , Julia Silverberg.Elaine Leeder, Ph.D. Moderator

May 27: What Have We Learned? Faculty/Student Panel

The Holocaust Lecture Series is sponsored by
the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust at Sonoma State University, the Paul V. Benko Holocaust Education Endowment and the Sonoma State University Holocaust Study Center.

Credit is available to community participants.
Call (707) 664-4076/4296

 

Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
A daily parking permit ($2.50) is required
M - TH, 6 a.m. - 10 p.m. and
6 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Fridays, except holidays.
Daily permits are not valid in reserve lots.
Some permit machines accept quarters only.
SSU has complete program accessibility

 

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