History, Memory, Justice Rodgers Center Announces 2017-18 Lectures & Events
Screening of Film Denial September 11 | 7 PM Chapman Auditorium | Memorial Hall Denial: Holocaust History on Trial Dr. Deborah Lipstadt September 14 | 7 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Knowledge Without Action: The Case of Germany during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire Dr. David Crowe and
Remembering Curt Lowens, z”l
With great sadness, I share the news of the passing on Monday night of our dear friend Curt Lowens. For almost 15 years, Curt has been a vital part of our program, speaking in classes, at our annual Kristallnacht commemoration, at the awards ceremony for the Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, and on so many
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance April 20 | 7 PM | Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance in Words, Music, Dance, and Film With a Special Tribute to Elie Wiesel LIGHTING OF CANDLES OF REMEMBRANCE MUSIC Daniel Alfred Wachs, Director of Orchestral Activities, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University Iman Khosrowpour, Conductor, Symphony Orchestra and Violin Faculty, Irvine Valley College REFLECTIONS Rabbi Elie
Tips for Teachers The 18th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
What are some of the ways to get started and support your students as they prepare to respond to the Holocaust Art and Writing contest prompt? We surveyed a number of teachers who previously had first-place entries and asked them to share some of their best tips. The following are their ideas, insights and strategies:
An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for “Kristallnacht”
November 10 | 7:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Chapman University gathers as an interfaith community to commemorate Kristallnacht. We remember the violence and destruction that swept across Germany on November 9-10, 1939, and the terror, arrests, and deportations that followed. We also remember the courageous people from many walks of
The Rodgers Center Presents “Etty” Excerpts from a One-Woman Play Adapted and Performed by Susan Stein
The Joyce and Saul Brandman Foundation Lecture Series Co-Sponsored by Department of Religious Studies, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences • Fish Interfaith Center October 25 | 7 p.m. Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play
Rodgers Center Fall Series Opens with Premiere Screening of “After Auschwitz”
Co-sponsored by Department of History •Department of Religious Studies,Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences • Civic Engagement Initiatives September 13| 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium | Memorial Hall In Jon Kean’s 2007 documentary Swimming in Auschwitz , six women—from different countries and diverse backgrounds—shared their unforgettable stories of surviving Auschwitz. After Auschwitz
Remembering–With Purpose Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
This Tuesday, May 3, at 7 p.m., in Memorial Hall on the Chapman University campus we will gather once again as a community of Holocaust remembrance. On our first occasion of remembrance, in April 2000, we screened the haunting documentary The Last Days , directed by James Moll, that focused on the last phase of
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance May 3 | 7 PM | Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall
MUSICAL TRIBUTES David Lisker— Violinist and Artistic Director, Lisker Music Foundation Graduate of Juilliard School and protégé of violinist, Itzhak Perlman Daniel Alfred Wachs— Director of Orchestral Activities, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University Music Director and Conductor, Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra Cantor Chayim Frenkel— Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of
The Vienna Paradox: From the ‘Woman in Gold’ to the Edge of Irony
On Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center , the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education continues its year-long series with a lecture by Dr. Marjorie Perloff. The author of a dozen books, including works on poets W.B. Yeats and Frank O’Hara and on post-modern literature and art, Dr. Perloff is professor