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1984 Holocaust Conference at Yale Education And 1984 HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE AT YALE EDUCATION AND THE HOLOCAUST: NEW RESPONSIBILITIES AND COOPERATIVE VENTURES Sponsored by the Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale and Facing History and Ourselves October 28 - 29, 1984 Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall Street New Haven, Connecticut PROGRAM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28,1984 Registration Display of Materials of Participants (Auditorium) Materials for display will be accepted from 10:OOam Conference Introduction (Room 208) Welcoming Remarks by Geoffrey Hartman Introduction of Participants and Organizations by Margot Stern Strom Challenges in the Field of Education Moderated by William Parsons An Urban Perspective - Marcia Littell The Washington Museum - David Altschuler A State University - Alvin Rosenfeld State Mandated Education - Edwin Reynolds Coffee Break Witness Accounts: Problems and Promises Lawrence Langer Discussion moderated by Lawrence Langer and Geoffrey Hartrnan Cocktails and Dinner Focus Abroad - Special Public Event CANADA ALAN BARDIKOFF FRANCE MICHAEL POLLAK HOLLAND RABBI AWRAHAM SOETENDORP ISRAEL YEHUDA BAUER WEST GERMANY JACOV KATWAN Auditorium - Open to the Public MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1984 8:30am - 9:OOam Coffee 9:OOam - 9:30am Connections: An Open Discussion (Room 208) 9:30am - 10:OOam Trying to Get Things Together: The Case of New Haven - Dorothy and Jerome Singer 10:OOam - 11:Wam Archival ~at&ial:Coordinating Access and Retrieval A Researcher's Perspective - Joan Ringelheim An Archivist's Perspective - Sandra Rosenstock Toward a Shared Communication System- Katharine Morton 11:OOam - 11: l5am Coffee Break Psychological and Related Issues Bearing Witness: Psychological Dimensions - Dori Laub Children in the Holocaust and After - Sarah Moskovitz Teaching About the Righteous Christians - Nechama Tec Lunch Small Group Discussions School Curricula - Isaiah Kuperstein (Room 108) Interviewer Training and Methodology - Goldie Goldstein (Room 219) Use and Abuse of Audio Visual Media - Sharon Rivo (Auditorium) Education and Its Limits - Dennis Klein (Room 208) Unique or Universal? - Rita Botwinick - Father Robert Bullock Coffee Break "Lessons in Hatei' - Video Presentation and Discussion Proposals for a Cooperative Network Moderated by Geoffrey Hartman Refreshments Special Public Event Room 108 - Open to the Public .Journeys of Conscience Slide Presentation - Leatrice Rabinsky and Marc Pollick Testimonies from Yale Video Archive - Sandra Rosenstock "Anne Frank in Maine" Videotape - Dennis Klein Auditorium - Open to the Public 7:30 - 9:00 "Breaking the Silence" Film - Eva Fogelman 9:00 - 10:OO "Meir Kumen On" ("Children Must Laugh") Film -Sharon Rivo Continuation of Discussion - Roam 208 (Conference members anly) CONFERENCE SPEAKERS David Altschuler United States Holocaust Memorial Council Alan Bardikoff Holocaust Remembrance Committee of Toronto Jewish Con- gress Yehuda Bauer Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rita Botwinick Sacred Heart University Father Robert Bullock Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Sharon, Massachusetts Eva Fogelman Graduate Center, City University of New York Goldie Goldstein Southeastern Florida Holocaust Memorial Center Geoffrey Hartman Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale Jacov Katwan Institute for International Scientific Exchange, West Berlin Dennis Klein Center for Holocaust Studies, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Isaiah Kuperstein Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh Lawrence Langer Simmons College Dori Laub Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at ~aie Marcia Littell Anne Frank Institute, Philadelphia Katharine Morton Manuscripts and Archives, Yale Sarah Moskovitz California State University, Northridge William Parsons Facing History and Ourselves Michael Pollak Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Marc Pollick Zachor Institute for Holocaust Studies Leatrice Rabinsky Cleveland Heights High School Joan Ringelheim The Institute for Research in History Sharon Pucker Rivo National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University Alvin Rosenfeld Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University Sandra Rosenstock Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale Rabbi Awraham Soeteqdorp The Hague, Netherlands Dorothy and Jerome Singer Family Television Research and Consultation Center, Yale Margot Stern Strom Facing History and Ourselves Nechama Tec University of Connecticut, Stamford FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES NATIONAL FOUNDATION is an in- terdisciplinary curriculum development and teacher training program which has been recognized by the Diffusion Network of the United States Department of Education. THE VIDEO ARCHIVE FOR HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES AT YALE, an official depository of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, is dedicated to the recording, collection and preservation of videotaped oral histories of sur- vivors and witnesses, and to furthering the educational use of such testimonies. This conference has been made possible through a grant by the CHARLES H. REVSON FOUNDATION. .
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