Session I Session II Session III Session IV

 

 

Workshop Session I -- 10:30 - 11:25

Workshop

Room

Presenters

In Search of Goodness

Recital Hall, Fisher Hall

Dr. Hillel Levine, President, International Institute for Mediation & Historical Conciliation

Passport to Life

322T

Agnes Vertes, Documentarian

Don’t Wave Goodbye

306T

Dr. Henny Wenkart

Are Children of Holocaust Survivors Different from the Rest of Us?

308T

Dr. Eva Fogelman, psychologist, writer, filmmaker

The Refugees of the Holocaust and How They Rebuilt Their Lives

145T

Joe Berger

Debunking the Myth of Liberation: Voices of Survivors

235T

Dr. Joanne W. Rudof, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University

Holocaust Denial, the Internet, & Anti-Semitism: Combatting the Challenges

307T

Mark Weitzman, Director of the New York Office, Simon Wiesenthal Foundation

Shock, Horror, and Madness

132T

Gerard Jones, author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of

the Comic Book

Maus Masks

402F

Kim Do, Visual Arts Department

Nazi Medicine

229T

Dr. Kathy Howard, Science Dept., & Biotech students

The International Community and the Holocaust

247T

Anand Bhatia (11), Sonya Chandra (10), Ben Sumers (10)

Abstract Expressionism: Art During & After the Holocaust

B25T

Genny Martin (11)

Germany: Nazism and Now

315T

Max Rodriguez (11)

The Psychology of Evil: Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler

138T

Daniel Amzallag (10) & Dr. Ilene Rothschild

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop Session II -- 11:30 – 12:25

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Recital Hall, Fisher Hall

Agnes Vertes, Hungary; Judith Altman, Czechoslovakia; Marian Nachman, Holland; and Serge Vinograd, France

Strength of Humor

132T

Stuart Weinstock, Columbia University

Living with Memory: Selfhelp’s Work with Elderly Nazi Victims in New York City

235T

Adeena Horowitz, Program Director, & Carrie Goldberg, Community Social Worker, Washington Heights Nazi Victim Service Program

Kings of Comics

229T

Arie Kaplan, MAD Magazine

How Spiegelman Makes Maus Seem Honest

228T

Dr. Isaac Cates, Long Island University

The International Community and the Holocaust (Continued from Session I)

247T

Anand Bhatia (11), Sonya Chandra (10), Ben Sumers (10)

Social Psychology Responds to Fascism: The Obedience and Conformity Experiments

306T

Dr. Jeremy Leeds, Head of Guidance & Counseling Dept. & students from Introduction to Psychology

Maus Masks

402F

Kim Do, Visual Arts Department

Make Your Own Comic

403F

Nicky Enright, Visual Arts Dept.

Disabilities , Eugenics and the Holocaust

319T

Tabitha Silver (12) & Jason Choi (12)

Degenerate Art

B25T

Sarah Evans (12) & Alix Greenberg (12)

Poetry of the Holocaust

308T

Rebecca Hollander (10) & Melissa Lau (10)

Inside Auschwitz

307T

Grace Spiegel (11), Sara Blum (11), & Judith Spiegel, Grace’s grandmother

Of Mice & Wolverines: A Re-Examination of the Themes Found in the Graphic Novel Weapon X

B48T

Jason Caldwell, Assistant Director of Admissions & Coordinator of Diversity; Janet Smith, Computer Science Dept.; Raffi Holoszyc-Pimentel (12), Kevin Chang (11), Jedtsada Laucharaen (11), & Dexter Richard (9)

 

 

 

 

Workshop Session III -- 12:30 - 1:25

A Conversation with Joe Kubert

307T

Joe Kubert, Artist

Art as Resistance during the Holocaust

322T

Dr. Ilana Abramovitch, Manager of Curriculum, Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Orpheus Raising Hell: Remembering the Late Aleksander Kulisiewicz, Survivor-Singer of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

319T

Peter Wortsman, Columbia University

The Effects of Organized Persecution on Child Survivors of the Holocaust

228T

Joshua Lachter, Solomon Schechter High School of New York

Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors

Recital Hall, Fisher Hall

Sandy Rubenstein, HM Lower School; Ruth Seligman, HM Alumni/Development Office; Eileen Manela Kamins, HM parent of Caleb and Alex, 2016

Is Resistance Futile?

145T

Ann Kirschner, mother of Peter Weinberg (10)

Make Your Own Comic (Continued from Session II)

403F

Nicky Enright, Visual Arts Dept.

Following Orders: From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib

138T

Dr. Barbara Tischler, Acting Head, Upper Division

The Madagascar Plan

323T

Micheal Dale, Foreign Language Dept. & his Pre-AP/French Five Honors students

OUBAPO:  Workshop for Potential Comic Strips

152T

Dr. Tom LaFarge, English Dept.

Nazi Medicine

229T

Dr. Kathy Howard, Science Dept., & Biotech students

Mystical Tales: Stories of Hope and Despair

239T

Pasquale Devito, Alex Kapelman (12), Sam Bretton-Granatoor (12), Victor Sanabria (12), Tyler Robbins (12), Ariana Constant (12)

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in the 20th Century

306T

Peter Arnaboldi (10), Jessica Moldovan (10), & Sejal Patel (10)

The Holocaust and Pop Culture

308T

Rayna Rogowsky (12) & Danielle Hauser (12)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop Session IV -- 1:30 – 2:25

Reflections of the Soul

306T

Martin Spett, artist, educator, & Holocaust survivor

Redesigning Maus

Katz Library 2nd Fl. Group Study Room

Chip Kidd, Alfred A. Knopf Publishers

Composition Via the Gag Cartoon & the Power of Comics

138T

Keith Mayerson, New York University & the School

Of Visual Arts

The Rwandan Genocide: Whose Responsibility?  At What Cost?

228T

Michael Rakower (Class of ’89), Lawyer

What Mother Never Told Me...Reminiscences of a Child of a Holocaust Survivor

Recital Hall, Fisher Hall

Lisa Lipkin, Performance Artist

The Art in History

307T

James Goodman, Rutgers University, HM parent of Sam (’06) & Jackson (’09)

Confronting Stereotypes: Maus in Crown Heights (A Reappraisal Nine Years Later)

235T

Dr. Andrea Freud Loewenstein, Medgar Evers College/CUNY

Transcendent Notes: A Musical Response to the Holocaust

239T

Aaron Krieger (11) & Pasquale DeVito, History Dept.

OUBAPO:  Workshop for Potential Comic Strips (Continued from Session III)

152T

Dr. Tom LaFarge, English Dept.

Art, Literature, and the Expression of Meaning

308T

Fanny Chen (12), Nicholette Chan (12), & Natalia Irrizary-Cole (11)

Prisoners and Guards: The Camps, the Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib

322T

Dr. Jeremy Leeds, Head of Guidance & Counseling Dept. & students from Introduction to Psychology

Hitler's Willing Executioners

247T

Perry Nagin (12) & Erica Wolfe (12)

Death and Destruction: 7 August, 1945