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Uses and Abuses of Language
in Holocaust/Genocide:
Facing a Challenge Still With Us Today
Co-sponsor: Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
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Conference Speakers and Topics |
Dr. Ervin Staub
Professor of Psychology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Morning Keynote
"When Killing is not Killing: Manipulating Language for Sinister Purpose" |
Professor Jacqueline Berke
Co-Director, Center for Holocaust/
Genocide Study |
"The Medium of Language: A Panel Discussion"
The Nature and Limits of Language |
Dr. Jenny Halleran
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Drew University |
How Language Affects Thinking |
Dr. Neil Levi
Assistant Professor of English
Drew University |
Language in the Third Reich: A Case Study |
Dr. Neal Riemer
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Drew University |
"The Language of Politics:
How to Recognize the Truth When You Hear It" |
Dr. Lawrence Langer
Professor of English
Simmons College, Boston
Author of Holocaust Testimonies and Pre-empting the Holocaust |
Afternoon Keynote:
"The Language of Holocaust Testimony: Text & Subtext" |
Respondent: Dr. Anie Kalayjian
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Fordham University |
"Reviewing Testimony from Survivors of the Armenian Genocide" |
Dr. Kathleen Rusnak
Director of Support Services & Pastoral Care, The Connecticut Hospice
Former Study Program Coordinator
Nes Ammim, Israel |
"Language as Bridge: A New Lexicon of Hope and Healing" |
Respondent: Dr. William Rogers
Associate Dean, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies |
"Learning the NEW Language of Catholics and Protestants
in Northern Ireland Today" |
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Pre-Conference Film Series
The Downward Spiral
Truth, Lies, and Ultimate Complicity
in Holocaust/Genocide |
| The Führer Gives a City to the Jews |
Nazi propaganda film originally made to deceive Red Cross visitors about the "model concentration camp," Theresienstadt. The film was recently re-assembled from fragments.
Commentary by Leopold Lowy, survivor of the camp and contributor to Vedem, the secret magazine created by the boys of Terezín (the original Czech name for the town the Germans re-named Theresienstadt) |
| A Visitor From the Living |
Filmed interview with the Red Cross official who was sent to evaluate Theresienstadt and who refused to acknowledge the "Big Lie" being perpetrated by the Nazis. Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann tries relentlessly to make him admit the truth.
Response by a current official of the Red Cross |
| The Triumph of Evil |
Documentary film on Rwanda that indicts the United Nations, the United States, and other western countries for failing to recognize the Genocide going on before their very eyes.
Commentary by a representative from Human Rights Watch |
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