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Calendar of Upcoming Events


September 10 - December 4, 2009
     
SMU Amnesty International Meeting
            
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
            
Hughes-Trigg Commuter Lounge


November 6, 2009
      The United States Holocaust Museum is pleased to present:
             "Ethics, Law and the Holocaust"
             
Featured Speaker - Dr. William Meinecke, Historian
             
Noon - Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Avenue, Dallas
Hosted by The Dallas Bar Association CLE Committee
RSVP required.  Please click here for more information.

December 3, 2009
     
Twenty-third Annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner
            
Dinner served at 7:00 pm
            
Double Tree Hotel, 4099 Valley View Lane (LBJ & Midway)
Please click here for more information.

February 26 & 27 and March 4-7, 2010
     
UT-Arlington presents the play:
      "Dead Man Walking"
Sister Helen and Steven Crimaldi will be in attendance for the March 7th performance.
Please check back for more information.


           

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SMU Human Rights Education -- Fall 2009 Program Series:
                 Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point


September 9, 2009 
Holocaust Legacies:  Shoah as Turning Point, Opening Event and Reception
    Photo Exhibit:  “Places of Memory”

      
 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm (reception)
        7:30 pm to 10:00 pm (program)
        Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum -- SMU campus


This event will raise the issues and preview the fall events.  Professor Halperin will give a historical overview, and will moderate a panel on Shoah as Turning Point.  Panelists:  Mr. Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum, Professors Chris Anderson (Theology), Janis Bergman-Carton (Art History), and Tom Mayo (Law).

September 10, 2009 (two events)

Seminar on the Polish reception of Neighbors and Fear
Speaker:  Professor Jan Gross, Princeton University (History), author of Neighbors and Fear
       
University of Dallas, 1845 East Northgate Drive, Irving Texas 75062
        Gorman Faculty Lounge - 3:30 pm

The Killing and Plunder of the Jews by Their Neighbors in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Speaker:  Professor Jan Gross, Princeton University (History), author of Neighbors and Fear
       
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
        Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum -- SMU campus




September 11, 2009
Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit:
There Was a Forest:  Jews in Eastern Europe Today

       
Lecture -- O'Donnell Lecture Hall -- SMU Meadows School of the Arts
           6:00 p.m.
      Reception -- Taubman Atrium -- SMU Meadows School of the Arts
          7:00 pm

Photo Exhibit
--
August 24 - November 15, 2009
       Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library - SMU Meadows School of the Arts
              
The photographs in this series, created throughout Poland and Ukraine, document the  
               disappearing population of Holocaust survivors and their lives within the vanishing shtetls (small
               towns) of Eastern Europe.  The work also offers a glimpse into
the reemergence of Jewish life and
               culture in Central and Eastern Europe that is
beginning to transform some of the larger
               communities.


September 17, 2009 
From the Nuremberg Code to the Belmont Report and the Final Rule:  The Protection of Human Research Subjects in the 21st Century (Lecture and Panel Discussion)
Speaker:  Professor Thomas Beauchamp, Georgetown University (Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics), primary author of the Belmont Report.
      7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
      McCord Auditorium -- Dallas Hall, 3rd Floor -- SMU campus

October 8, 2009 
Beyond the Victim Monument
Speaker:  Professor Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh (Art History), author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monuments in Nineteenth-Century America.
        5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
        The 6th Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
        411 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas
        214-747-6660

October 22, 2009
The Holocaust in Contemporary Consciousness, Culture and Curriculum
Speaker:  Mr. Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance
         7:00 pm to 9:30 pm (reception following presentation)
        
Dallas Holocaust Museum
            211 N. Record Street #100, Dallas, Texas
            214-741-7500

November 5, 2009  (two events)
Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Maguire Public Scholar Lecture:
Ethical Dilemmas Facing Defense Attorneys in War-Crime Trials
Speaker:  Professor Jenia Turner  (SMU Dedman School of Law)
      
  Noon - light buffet
         Umphrey Lee Center Ballroom -- SMU campus

God on Trial:  The Meaning of the Shoah for Jewish and Christian Theology Today (film screening and discussion)
Discussants:  Rabbi Ari Perl, President of the Rabbinic Association of Greater Dallas, Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Tefilla, Dallas; Professor John Holbert, Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics, SMU Perkins School of Theology.

This event will include screening and discussion of the film, God on Trial  (which depicts a fictional “trial” of God by prisoners at Auschwitz).
             5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
             Perkins Prothro Great Hall -- Theology Quad -- SMU campus

November 12, 2009
Symposium:  Holocaust Survivors:  Stories of Resilience

Presenters: Roberta R. Greene, PhD, MSW, PI, John Templeton Foundation (JTF) grant, University of Texas, School of Social Work, and Harriet L. Cohen, PhD, MSW, co-investigator JTF, Texas Christian University, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of Social Work

A panel comprised of Holocaust historians, educators, and survivors, gerontologists, social workers and pastoral care clergy will discuss findings from a study on resilience, forgiveness, and survivorship among older Holocaust survivors, as described by the participants of a recent mixed methods national study of 133 Holocaust survivors aged 68 to 90.
         8:30 am to 12:30 pm  

            Perkins Prothro Great Hall -- Theology Quad -- SMU campus

November 19, 2009  
Music Out of the Ashes
Performers:  Professors Virginia Dupuy (SMU Meadows School of the Arts), Christopher Anderson (SMU Perkins School of Theology) and John Holbert (SMU Perkins School of Theology)

This lecture/performance will focus on Victor Ullmann’s “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” an opera written in Theresienstadt but not performed until the 1970s.  The evening will include scenes from the opera interspersed with commentary about the camp, the music, and the composer. 

        5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
        Perkins Prothro Great Hall -- Theology Quad -- SMU campus

November 23, 2009  
Is Art Worth a Life?:  Hitler, War and the Monuments Men (interactive presentation with slides and video clips)
Presenter:  Robert Edsel, the author of Rescuing DaVinci and The Monuments Men:  Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, co-producer of the documentary film Rape of Europa, and founding President of the Monuments Men Foundation, an organization dedicated to the recovery and preservation of Nazi-looted art.  
           5:00 pm to 10:00 pm
           Perkins Prothro Great Hall -- Theology Quad -- SMU campus

Co-Sponsors for the 2009 Fall Program Series:
      Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility
      Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance
      Meadows School of the Arts
      Perkins School of Theology
      Texas Christian University, Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of
           Social Work
      University of Dallas