University of Haifa
The Weis-Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies
Research Forum spring semester 2015
Dr. Yael Granot-Bein ([email protected] ; 04-8240613)
Wednesdays, 16:15-17:45
Room 225, Students' Building
Course description:
The aim of the forum is to expose the students to different scholars and people in
the field of Holocaust studies that do not figure in the academic curriculum, among
them Holocaust survivors, film makers and researchers from various fields of study.
Final grade:
This is a pass/no pass course
You are required to be present in at least 80% of the lectures in order to pass the
course and write a final paper. You cannot submit a seminar paper in this class
Instructions for final paper:
2 page essay: Choose one lecture from the fall semester which you found to be
thought-provoking, stimulating or you wish to argue with. Sum it up and offer your
own opinion, analysis or criticism on the topic.
Deadline for submission: July 1st 2015.
Schedule:
Day
Name of lecturer
comments
10 March
Seminar at Atlit Detention Center
10:00-16:00
11 March
Amcha Session – volunteering with
Holocaust survivors
12 March
Talk with Prof. Barbara KirshenblatGimblett, Chief curator of the core
exhibition at POLIN Museum of the
History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
"Rising from the Rubble: creating
POLIN Museum of the History of
Polish Jews"
Workshop with Prof. Barbara
Kirshenblat-Gimblett, "Curating the
Holocaust: Narrative Dilemmas and
Image Ethics"
A bus will pick participants up
from the University at 9:15 and
will bring them back to the
university at 16:00.
Location group 1: room 225,
Students' Building
Location group 2: Seminar
room, 22nd floor, Eshkol Tower
16:30-18:30
Auditorium 101, Students'
Building
13 March
10:00-13:00
Offer Observatory, 30th floor,
Eshkol Tower
18 March
22 March
Sunday
25 March
30 March,
Monday
Screening of movie "A Film Unfinished Session will end at 18:15
and talk with producer Itay Ken-Tor
Talk with Prof. Adrian Cioroianu,
German class is canceled.
University of Bucharest, Former
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rumania:
Romanians and its Jews
Preparation meeting – study tour to
Poland
Special seminar with Michaela Christ,
The Holocaust in Berditschew : A
figurational approach.
With Carol Kidron and Lea David
For participants of the tour only
To take place at Massuah
Center.
Bus leaving from University.
1-11 April
Passover Break
15 April
Alan Rosen
Literature of the Holocaust part I
22 April
26-28
April
29 April
Independence day break
Seminar at the Ghetto Fighters'
House Museum
Alan Rosen Part II
No school
Three day seminar with
accommodation on site.
3 May
Sunday
Special seminar with Cilly
Kugelman, program director of the
Jewish Museum in Berlin
Location and time TBA
6 May
Amcha Session – volunteering with
Holocaust survivors
10 May
Talk with Alon Confino
13 May
Talk with Holocaust survivor Noach
Klieger
20 May
Screening of film: Hitlers' children
and talk with director Hanoch Zeevi
Talk with Prof. Gavriel Rosenfeld,
Fairfield University, about his new
book: Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past
is being Normalized in
Contemporary Culture".
Study tour to Poland
27 May
31 May 7 June
To take place at Kobi Kabalek's
class, Nazi Germany, 13:0015:00
10 June
17 June
Screening of the film: The
apartment , and talk with director
Arnon Goldfinger
Amcha meeting – volunteering
with Holocaust survivors
End of semester 19 June