Program

SUNDAY, April 11

    1:30 PM Stewart Center, Room 214, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Registration
    2:00 PM Opening Ceremonies
Session Chair: Susan Prohofsky
Mayors' Proclamation: Tony Roswarski, Lafayette & John Dennis, West Lafayette
Memorial Prayer: Rabbi Audrey Pollack, Temple Israel
Candle of Remembrance, Candle of Hope
Musical Tribute
Psalm 90:In Every Age, music by Dr. Brad Bodine and the St. Thomas Aquinas Singers
Clayton Lein and The Lafayette Chamber Singers
2:20 PM Opening Remarks
Daniel Frank, Professor of Philosophy; Director, Jewish Studies Program, Purdue University
2:40 PM FDR Before and During the Holocaust
The 4th Annual Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecturer
Richard Breitman, Professor of History, American University
Introduction by Gordon Mork, Professor of History, Purdue University
3:40 PM Complicity in Genocide: The Failure(s) of Ethics
John Roth, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
Introduction by Robert Melson, Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
4:40 PM Responsibility Without Boundaries
Michael Morgan, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Indiana University
Introduction by Daniel Frank<
6:00 PM Purdue Memorial Union, Anniversary Drawing Room
Dinner (donation $18; students $3, RSVP by April 6, call 463-1980 or email sue@glhrc.org)
Cash or check made payable to GLHRC accepted at the door
7:30 PM Fowler Hall, Stewart Center, Purdue University
Musical Diaries from the Ghetto
Dr. Nurit Jugend, Composer, DMA Stanford University
Edna Koren, Concert Pianist, San Francisco Symphony and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony

MONDAY, April 12

9:00 AM Hillel Foundation, 912 W. State St., West Lafayette
University Religious Leaders Breakfast
6:00 PM West Lafayette Public Library
Movie: The Children of the Congo: From War to Witches
8:00 PM Krannert Auditorium, Purdue University
Jewish Politics and Resistance in John Hersey's The Wall
Nancy Sinkoff, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers Universitye
Introduction by Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Professor of Jewish Studies, Purdue University

TUESDAY, April 13

4:30 PM St. Thomas Aquinas, Room 3, 535 W. State St.
Teaching The Diary of Anne Frank:
A workshop for Middle School and High School Teachers
Sarah Powley, Educator, English Department Chair, McCutcheon H.S.
See link above for details.
7:00 PM Hillel Foundation, 912 W. State St.
Movie: Zwartboek aka "The Black Book"

WEDNESDAY, April 14

1-4 PM Pearson Conference Room, Matthews Hall, Room 111, Purdue University
Levinas Symposium: Philosophy after the Holocaust: Responsibility and Complicity
Conducted by the Purdue Levinas Reading Group and the North American Levinas Society
7:00 PM McCutcheon High School
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
A play presented by McCutcheon drama students
Directed by Stella Schafer, English and Drama Teacher
Open to the public, see link above for details.
8:00 PM Lawson Hall, Room 1142, Purdue University
Coming to Account: Swiss Banks and the Holocaust
John Crook, JD, The George Washington University Law School
Introduction by Conference Co-Chair Donna Shurman

THURSDAY, April 15

6:00 PM West Lafayette Public Library
Movie: Hotel Rwanda
8:00 PM Lawson Hall, Room 1142, Purdue University
Panel Discussion: Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern Congo: The Aftermath
Challenges of Peace Building and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Congo
Catharine Newbury, Professor of Politics & Government, Smith College
Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern Congo: The Aftermath
Noel Twagiramungu, LLM, Ph.D. candidate in Human Security, Tufts University
Moderated by Ray Dumett, Professor of History, Purdue University