Yad Vashem has announced the dates and a tentative program for this conference. Registration is open now and scholarships are available!
See more details here.
Tentative schedule:
Monday, July 7, 2008
Afternoon:
The Association of Holocaust Organizations will hold a special meeting to discuss:
Topic: Teaching the Holocaust to Non-Traditional Audiences: Results and Applications
Evening:
The Opening Ceremony at Yad Vashem will take place at the Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans who Fought Against Nazi Germany
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Morning Topic: Racism and Antisemitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries – the Prelude to Destruction
Professor Yehuda Bauer - Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem, Israel
Professor Omer Bartov - John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History
and German Studies, Brown University USA
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Morning Topic: Teaching the Holocaust in a Multi-Cultural Society – Combating the Phenomena of Racism and Prejudice in the Classroom
Dr. Stephen Smith - Founding Director, Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham, England
Dr. William Meinecke - Historian, Education Department, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA
Dr. Mary Johnson - Senior Historian, Facing History and Ourselves, USA
Hon. Daniel Rafecas Esq. - Federal Judge, Argentina
Professor Bodo von Borries - Professor of Education, University of Hamburg, Germany
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Morning Topic: Building a Better World – The Legacy of the Survivors and Celebrating Israel in its 60th Year
Professor Hanna Yablonka - Historian, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Aharon Appelfeld - Author, Israel
Samuel Bak - Artist ,USA
General Ido Nechushtan - Head of the Plans and Policy Directorate, Israeli Defense Forces, Israel
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