This year’s Witnessing Auschwitz Conference is focused on the sharing of a diversity of ideas and perspectives on Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
Alongside several Student Panels, where students will share the research projects they developed while studying at the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum in May, we are proud to be hosting talks by various professors and community members. We will also be hosting a talk by Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech, the Head of Publishing at the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum.
This student lead conference, lead by Rachel Gore, will take place on the 19th and 20th of September, from 9 AM to 4 PM daily, in the Dodson Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on UBC campus.
Photo from Marek Stankiewicz
Witnessing Auschwitz Conference Programming:
September 19th:
9:00 AM: Land Acknowledgement
9:05 AM: Opening
9:05 AM- Dr. Bozena Karwowska
9:35 AM- Dr. Carlos Halaburda
9:50 AM: Spaces in Auschwitz: alte Judenrampe
Speaker: Lisa Rutloh
10:00 AM: Ethnicity, Culture and Persecution
Speakers: Nina Weng and Charlotte Gibbs
11:00 AM: Unexpected Testimonies. The history of selected publications by The Auschwitz Birkenau Museum
Speaker: Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech, Head of Publishing, Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum
12:30 PM: BREAK
1:30 PM: Children and Emotional Juxtaposition in Auschwitz
Speakers: Cindy Fu and Michelle Park 2:30 PM: Prisoner’s Daily Experiences
Speaker: Karen Howatson and Theresa Ruoxi Xu
3:30 PM: The Role of Food in Auschwitz
Speaker: Puloma Kaushal
September 20th:
9:00 AM: Ukrainian Women, Victims of Russian Aggression, working at the Auschwitz Museum
Speakers: Dariya Prykhodko, Daria Borysenko, and Svitlana Borysenko
9:25 AM: Struggling for the Right to Life: Jewish Children’s Voices in Ukraine During the Holocaust
Speaker: Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk 10:00 AM: Music and International Relations
Speakers: Atrena Azordegan and Emily Chen 11:00 AM: Accidentally Alive
Speaker: Dr. Helen Wilkes
12:00 PM: BREAK
1:00 PM: Holocaust Memorials in Berlin, 1990 to the Present
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Friedrichs
2:00 PM: National Exhibitions and Religious Expression
Speakers: Rachel Zylberman Gore and Nikhitha Guddeti
3:00 PM: Closing
Speaker: Tyler Samuels, Hillel BC
