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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
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