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courtesy USHMM

In 1935 Nazi dignitaries at the Deutsches [Racial] Hygiene Museum gaze raptly at ‘The Glass Man” who symbolized for the Third Reich the perfect, healthy ‘Aryan’ body.

14th Annual Conference Commemorating Kristallnacht: National Socialism “Embodied”: Body Politics, Sports, & the Holocaust

Thursday, November 2, 2006

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and coffee
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Welcome
Jacqueline Berke, Professor Emerita of English, Co-Director, Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study
Kristallnacht Commemoration

9:30 - 10:20 a.m. Keynote: REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST: Body Aesthetics, Race, and Spectacle
Dr. Uli Linke, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology
10:30 - 11:20 a.m. THE JOE LOUIS-MAX SCHMELING FIGHT: Sports as a Window into "Body Politics"
Dr. Lewis Ehrenberg, Professor of History, Loyola University

11:30 - 12 noon LEBENSBORN: The Female Body as Incubator to Create a Master Race
Introduction to excerpts from the film, Of Pure Blood
Dr. Ann L. Saltzman, Professor of Psychology and Center Co-Director, Drew University

12 noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 1:50 p.m. THE "BODY" IN NAZI PROPAGANDA FILMS: Olympiad vs. The Eternal Jew
Dr. Stuart Liebman, Professor of Film Studies, CUNY Graduate Center

2:00 - 2:20 p.m. THE FINAL SOLUTION: Degrading the Jewish body politic
Dr. Uli Linke, Associate Professor of Anthropology, RIT

2:30 - 3:20 p.m. "RE-EMBODYING" JEWISH LIVES LOST DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Ann Weiss, Director, Eyes from the Ashes Foundation



courtesy Kappa Publishing Group

“The Ring” magazine cover, July 1938, comparing German boxer Max Schmeling to U.S. boxer Joe Louis .
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