Recovering and Representing the Past: Museums, Archives, Sources
Opening program
September 30 Staging Public Memory
5:00 – 9:00 p.m. James E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The opening program for the fall course will take place at the Douglass Campus Center, 100 George Street, New Brunswick. Professor James Young, world renowned expert on Holocaust memorials and museums, will give remarks over dinner and present his lecture Staging Public Memory. (The lecture is open to the public.)
The following sessions will take place at The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 12 College Avenue, New Brunswick on Wednesdays from 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner provided.
October 7 | The New Museum of the History of the Polish Jews Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College |
October 21 | From Bergen-Belsen to Brooklyn: History, Memory and Orthodoxy Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Ramapo College |
November 18 | Yad Vashem – Israel’s Holocaust Memorial and Museum Jackie Feldman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
December 2 | The International Tracing Service Betsy Anthony, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum |
MTI Faculty and Staff
Karen Small, Associate Director
Jodi Marcou, Program Coordinator
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Colleen Tambuscio, Educational Consultant
Paul Hannebrink, Faculty Advisor