Symposium Agenda

Evidence Against Intolerance: A Virtual Symposium on Teaching the Holocaust in the Digital Disinformation Era

February 23, 2022
9am-5pm Eastern

  • Welcome 9:00am-9:15am
  • State of Holocaust Education  9:15am-10:30am
    • Hana Bor, Professor, Towson University (Moderator)
    • Daniel Heß, Friedrich Rückert Gymnasium, Germany
    • Tamar Ketko, Professor, Kibutzim College, Israel
    • Lori Weintrob, Professor, Wagner College Holocaust Center
    • Jeffrey Parker, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Resistance, rescue, victims, survivors and heroism 10:45am – 11:45 am
    • Hana Bor, Professor, Towson University (Moderator)
    • Amy McDonald, Author/Educator, Birmingham, AL
    • Azrikam Ganot, Teacher/Activist, Israel
  • Teaching the Holocaust in This Contemporary Climate (Keynote) 12:00pm-12:45pm
    • Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Professor/Author, Bar-Ilan University
  • Information Literacy & Holocaust Education Resource Sharing 1:00pm-2:00pm
    • Joyce Garczynski, Librarian, Towson University (Moderator)
    • Jewish Museum of Maryland
    • Center for Jewish Education
    • Forget-Me-Not Exhibition
    • Centropa
  • Holocaust Denial, Antisemitism, and Hatred in the Modern Era 2:00pm-3:15pm
    • Joyce Garczynski, Librarian, Towson University (Moderator)
    • Rachel Deblinger, Holocaust Historian/ Digital Humanist, UCLA
    • Levi Israel Ufferfilge, Author/Director, Jewish International School, Germany
  • Breakout room discussions about declining knowledge about the Holocaust 3:30pm-4:45pm
  • Closing Remarks 4:45pm-5:00pm