Schedule of Events

ALL EVENTS ARE IN THE RIVER BUILDING ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 24

• Ottawa Jewish Archive Exhibit
• Photography Exhibit by Cle-alls (Dr. John Kelly)
  
• B’nai Brith Books and DVDs

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

• Photography Exhibit by Yuri Dojc, “Last Folio”
• Azrieli Foundation Book Exhibit

• Welcome by Professor Aviva Freedman, SLaLS, Carleton University, Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies
• Opening Address by Dr. Mario Silva, Chair, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (formerly ITF)

• Introduction, Dr. Frank Dimant, CEO B’nai Brith Canada
• Address by Dr. Andrew Bennett, Ambassador, Office of Religious Freedom

• Chair: Jane Freeland, History, Carleton University; Graduate Student Conference Coordinator
  
• Elizabeth Ennis Dawson, Religion and Public Life, Carleton University, Jews in the Margins of Canada and the United States?
• Lauren Montgomery, Political Science, Carleton University, The Impact of Democratization on the Jewish Diaspora in Russia: Jewish Identity and the Institutionalization of Racism, Xenophobia, and Ethnicity
• Tahmina Tariq, History and Philosophy of Religion, Concordia University, The Grande Mosquée de Paris’ Résistance Against Nazism: Local and Global Dimensions to the Silence Behind the Story

ZELIKOVITZ CENTRE RESEARCH PANEL 1

• Introduction, Dr. Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University Adjunct Professor Religion, Conference Co-Chair
• Dr. Deidre Butler, Religion Program, College of Humanities, Carleton University, Visual Midrash: Holocaust Visual Art as Jewish Feminist Post-Holocaust Response
• Dr. Anna Sheftel, Conflict Studies, St. Paul University, “Questions are More Important than Answers”: Creating Collaborative Workshop Spaces with Holocaust Survivor-Educators in Montreal

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY

• Introduction, Deidre Butler, Conference Chair, Associate Director, Zelikovitz Centre, Religion Program, College of Humanities, Carleton University
  
• David Shentow

• 12:00 – 12:30  Lunch Buffet in Conference Room Opens
• 12:30  Introduction by Barbara Farber, President, Leiken Group, past President, Jewish Federations of Canada, United Israel Appeal
• 12:35  Address by the Honourable Jason Kenney

• Introduction, Dr. Kim Matheson, Vice-President (Research and International), Carleton University
• Avi Benlolo, CEO and President, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
• Jody Spiegel, Director, Azrieli Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, Azrieli Foundation; Tim MacKay, Social Media and Marketing Manager, Azrieli Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, Azrieli Foundation.  Azrieli Series Short Film presentation: Felix Opatowski, Gatehouse to Hell.

• Chair: Dr. James Casteel, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and Religion, College of the Humanities
• Dr. Christiane Wilke, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Remembering Complexity? Memorials for Nazi Victims in Berlin
• Dr. Rebecca Margolis, Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program, University of Ottawa, Transmitting Yiddish Culture After the Holocaust

• Chair: Jane Freeland, History, Carleton University; Graduate Student Conference Coordinator
• Meghan Lundrigan, Carleton University, Broadcast YourHate: Navigating YouTube and Twenty-first Century Memory-Making Processes
• Erica Fagen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Scrolling through Memory: Talking about the Holocaust in the Age of Social Media
• Melanie Guertin, Carleton University, The Importance of Orality in Preserving Holocaust Memory
• Lesley Simpson, York University, The Soundscape of Silence, Music and Sound: Narrative Strategy in Ida Fink
• Jason Chalmers, University of Ottawa, Canada’s National Holocaust Monument and the Canadianisation of Holocaust Memory

• Mark Adler, MP York Centre
• Honourable John McKay, MP Scarborough-Guildwood
• Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader and MP Saanich-Gulf Islands

• Introduction, Jonathan Freedman, Former Chair, Jewish Federation of Ottawa
• Honourable Irwin Cotler, “The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights: Universal Lessons For Our Time”
• Thanking Professor Cotler, Hershell Ezrin,Managing Director, Ezrin Communications

• Ottawa Jewish Archive Exhibit
• Photography Exhibit by Cle-alls (Dr. John Kelly)
  
• B’nai Brith Books and DVDs
• Photography Exhibit by Yuri Dojc, “Last Folio”
• Azrieli Foundation Book Exhibit

• Introduction, Dr. Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University Adjunct Professor Religion, Conference Co-Chair
• Debra Kaufman, Professor Emerita, Northeastern University; Matthews Distinguished University Professor, What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust: History, Post Holocaust Memory Narratives and Jewish Identity

This program was made possible by the Association for Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program.

• Introduction, Aviva Freedman, Professor Emeritus, SLaLS, Carleton University, Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies
• Professor Hymie Anisman, Canada Research Chair, Neuroscience, Carleton University, Distress Across Generations

• Introduction, Dr. John Osborne, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Professor Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer, Senior Advisor to the President, Strategic Initiatives, Waterloo University, About Culture, Creativity, and Courage in the Concentration Camps

• Lunch Buffet Open 12:00 – 1 p.m.
• 1:00 p.m.  Introduction by Shimon Fogel, Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)
• Professor Irving Abella, History, York University, The Untold Story of None Is Too Many

• Introduction, Introduction, Dr. John Osborne, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Dr. Truda Rosenberg, reading from her memoir, Unmasked

• Introduction, Professor Allan Moscovitch, School of Social Work, Carleton University
• Professor Michael Dorland, School of Journalism and Communications, Carleton University, “Is it a curse to work on the Holocaust?”: Personal Reflections on my 2009 book, Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival
• Dr. Jen Evans, History, Carleton University, Remembering Pink Triangle Victims: Making Space for Queer Place in 21st Century Berlin
• Dr. Michael Wohl, Psychology, Carleton University, The Multi-Generational Legacies of Victimization: Reminders of the Holocaust Promote Concern for Jewish Vitality, Moral Obligation, and Ingroup Protective Behaviours