The SMU Human Rights Education Program seeks to educate and train future generations of human rights advocates and responsible citizens of the world. Following are the Fall 2009 events sponsored by the program:
August 24 - November 15, 2009
Hawn Gallery — Hamon Arts Library
There Was a Forest: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit
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 re-emergence of Jewish life and culture in Central and Eastern Europe that is beginning to transform some of the larger communities.
September 9, 2009
Hughes-Trigg Student Forum, 7:30 – 10 p.m.
(Reception 7 – 7:30 p.m.)
Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point, Opening Event and Reception
Photo Exhibit: “Places of Memory”
This event will raise the issues and preview the fall events. Professor Rick Halperin will give a historical overview, and will moderate a panel on Shoah as Turning Point. Panelists: Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum; Professor Christopher Anderson (Theology); Professor Janis Bergman-Carton (Art History); and Professor Tom Mayo (Law).
September 10, 2009
University of Dallas
(room and time in the afternoon, to be announced)
The Polish Reception of Neighbors and Fear
Speaker: Professor Jan Gross, Princeton University (History), author of Neighbors and Fear
September 10, 2009
Hughes-Trigg Student Forum, 7 – 10 p.m.
The Killing and Plunder of the Jews by Their Neighbors in Nazi-Occupied Poland
September 11, 2009
Loli Kantor Photography Exhibit: There Was a Forest: Jews in Eastern Europe Today
Lecture in O’Donnell Lecture Hall at 6 p.m.
Reception in Taubman Atrium of Meadows School of the Arts at 7 p.m.
September 17, 2009
McCord Auditorium, 7 – 10 p.m.
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: Professor Thomas Beauchamp, Georgetown University (Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics), primary author of the Belmont Report.
October 8, 2009
The Sixth Floor Museum, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
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
(The Sixth Floor Museum is located at 411 Elm, Dallas 75202. Visitor parking is located adjacent to the Museum; the cost is $5 daily. Public transportation includes DART light rail and Trinity River Railway Express. Rail services from Union Station and the West End Station are a short walk from the Museum.)
October 22, 2009
Dallas Holocaust Museum, 7 – 9:30 p.m. (Reception following presentation)
The Holocaust in Contemporary Consciousness, Culture and Curriculum
Speaker: Mr. Elliott Dlin, Executive Director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance
November 5, 2009
Umphrey Lee Center Ballroom, noon (light buffet, 11:30)
Ethical Dilemmas Facing Defense Attorneys in War-Crime Trials
Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Maguire Public Scholar Lecture
Speaker: Professor Jenia Turner (SMU Dedman School of Law)
November 5, 2009
Perkins Prothro Great Hall, 6 – 10 p.m.
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; John Holbert, Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics, SMU Perkins School of Theology
This event will include a screening and discussion of the film God on Trial (which depicts a fictional “trial” of God by prisoners at Auschwitz).
November 12, 2009
Perkins Prothro Great Hall, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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 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 ages 68 to 90.
November 19, 2009
Perkins Prothro Great Hall, 6 – 10 p.m.
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.
November 23, 2009
Perkins Prothro Great Hall, 6 – 10 p.m.
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 .
Co-sponsors of HOLOCAUST LEGACIES include the 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; and University of Dallas.
For more information contact: Dr. Patricia H. Davis, director of Pastoral Leadership and adjunct professor of Pastoral Care and Leadership at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, at 214-768-4983 pdavis@smu.edu
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