On Thursday, September 10, 2015, you’re invited to a FREE screening of Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds as part of the Memory, Meaning, and Justice Lecture Series. The Woman in Gold is a remarkable story of one women’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to
You’re invited to view, “Nicky’s Family” — the award-winning documentary about Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall. Dr. Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Directory, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University, will introduce the film
In this groundbreaking lecture on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (7 p.m., Wallace All Faiths Chapel), Professor David Crowe explores the intersection among Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who became a rescuer; Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish émigré lawyer from Poland who worked tirelessly to promote the concept of genocide; and Amon Goeth, the sadistic Nazi
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education is pleased to be hosting Dr. Alan Rosen on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4 p.m. in the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall 404. Dr. Alan Rosen’s lecture titled, “Killing Time, Saving Time: Calendars and the Holocaust,” will examine the intriguing and complex questions in the context of
Chapman University, t he Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and Wilkinson College are pleased to host a lecture titled, “A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner” with Dr. Deborah Dwork on October 18, 2012 in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel in the Fish Interfaith Center. Written in tiny script on scarce
The Chancellor’s Premier Lecture Series, 4th Annual Lectio Magistralis, presents, “The Holocaust: In the Crucible of Memory” with Dr. Marilyn J. Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Professor of Religious Studies and History in Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Monday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The Holocaust is often characterized as “unspeakable”
The Chapman delegation enjoying a special tour of The Kennedy Center were (l-r) Dana Hollander, Sonali Toppur, Katy Brannigan, Napoleon Gladney ‘08, Dr. Marilyn Harran, Natalie Larson, Victoria Moyzis and Courtney Widerman. The annual study trip to Washington, D.C., presented to prize winners in Chapman University’s Rodgers Center Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, is always full
Sixty years ago this month, Israel’s Knesset established Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, to be the 27th of Nissan. And while commemorations around the world honor the survivors of one of the largest genocides in world history every year, this year, as the number of survivors dwindles, it is more important than ever to
“An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance” Metaphors of Memory: A Witness Through the Arts Sponsored by The Lodzer Organization of California A Program of Dance, Music, and Documentary Film Presented by Chapman University Holocaust History Minors, Class of 2011 on Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall. Lighting of Candles of Remembrance Musical
At Chapman U., a Holocaust Library Keeps Memory Alive Marilyn J. Harran is the first to say that a mid-sized Orange County university affiliated with the Disciples of Christ is an unlikely home for a Holocaust library, just as a religious-studies professor whose field is the 16th century and who isn’t Jewish is an unlikely