CONFRONTING TERROR March 29, 2003

SATURDAY, March 23, 2002

Mattews Hall, Room 210, Purdue University, West Lafayette

    12:30 PM

Registration
1:00 PM Session Chair: Al Black
1:10 PM Co-operating to Confront Terror
Martin Jischke, President, Purdue University
Introduced by: Robert Ringel
1:35 PM The Future of the Holocaust
Peter Hayes, Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
Introduced by: Herman Cember
2:25 PM Democracy: Crucial for Freedom
Xu Wenli China's Political Prisoner now at Brown University
Recognition of Xu Wenli by Amnesty International & Holocaust Remembrance Committe
3:25 PM Student Panel Discussion: Fighting Terror on Campus
Moderator: Herman Cember
Participants: Ian McCullum, Rachel Santellano, Megan Skuller, Alexa Vandergrift
4:15 PM Workshop Introductions: Workshop Chairs
4:30 PM Concurrent Workshops
1. Teaching the Holocaust
Moderator: Trudy Nelson
2. Being Jewish in the Soviet Union
Moderator: Lynn Nelson
Presenter: Anatoli Rapoport
3. Rebuilding Afghanistan's Kabul Univeristy
Moderator: Kevin McMamara
4. Understanding Violence in the Holy Books of Judaism, Christianity & Islam
Moderator: Donald N. Mitchell
Participants: Sadrul Amin, Sandor Goodhart, Tom Ryba
5. Anti-Semitism on Campus
Moderator: Elana Stern
6. Implementing Diversity on Campus
Moderator: Thelma Snuggs

Hillel Foundation, 912 W. State St., West Lafayette

6:30 PM

Deli Supper (donation $5.00, students $3.00)

Mattews Hall, Room 210, Purdue University, West Lafayette

8:00 PM

Session Chair: Marla Bluestein
Mayors' Proclamation: Dave Heath, Lafayette & Sonya Margeruman, West Lafayette
Memorial Tribute
Flame of Remembrance - Candle of Hope
8:30 PM From Holocaust to Haven - Personal Recollections
Ruth Gruber, Author and Reporter who served in F. D. Roosevelt's Administration
Introduction by: Edna Loehman
9:30 PM Workshop Reports