Dear Friends,

Just a reminder about two events during this busy week:

Our annual Holocaust Memorial lecture, to be delivered by Professor 
David Shneer of the University of Colorado, will take place Tuesday, 
April 14, at 7:00 PM, in the Waterman Memorial Lounge. The title of the 
talk is "Grief: A History of the World’s First Holocaust Liberation 
Photograph." The lecture is free and open to the public. We are also 
pleased to invite you to a catered reception immediately following the 
event.

Our triennial Miller Symposium will take place this coming weekend. The 
topic for this installment is "Responses in the Middle East to National 
Socialism and the Holocaust, 1933-1945." The symposium will begin 
Saturday evening at 7:45 PM (with the keynote lecture commencing at 8:00 
PM), and will continue all day on Sunday, running from 8:30 AM to 6:00 
PM. All sessions will be held in the Waterman Memorial Lounge. The 
complete schedule for the symposium is provided at the bottom of this 
message.

Please note the following with regard to the symposium:

1. There is ample free parking on the west side (toward the lake) of the 
Waterman Building. A parking map for UVM can be found at the following link:
http://www.uvm.edu/tps/campusmap_parking.pdf

2. As the symposium will be held on a weekend, please use the north or 
south entrances (i.e., the side entrances) for access to the Waterman 
Building. The main entrance will be locked.

3. All attendees at the symposium will be our guests for lunch at the 
Cook Commons on the UVM campus. We will distribute lunch vouchers on 
Sunday morning.

4. No advance registration is required, and the event is free and open 
to the public.


The Seventh Miller Symposium
Responses in the Middle East to National Socialism and the Holocaust, 
1933–1945
April 18–19, 2015
Waterman Building, Memorial Lounge (Room 338)


Saturday, April 18th

7:45 PM
Welcome

8:00 – 9:15 PM
Arab Reactions to Nazism and the Holocaust: Scholarship and the ‘War of 
Narratives’
Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London


Sunday, April 19th

8:30 – 8:45 AM
Welcome

8:45 – 10:00 AM
"Rescue or Rejection: Facts and Myths about Turkey and the Holocaust"
Corry Guttstadt, Independent Scholar

10:00 – 10:15 AM
Coffee/Tea and Refreshments

10:15 – 11:30 AM
"Demon and Infidel: Egyptian Intellectuals Confronting Hitler and Nazism 
During the Second World War, 1939-1945"
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 PM
"The Persecution of the Jews in Germany in Egyptian and Palestinian 
Public Discourses: A Comparative Perspective"
Esther Webman, Tel Aviv University

2:45 – 3:00 PM
Coffee/Tea and Refreshments

3:00 – 4:15 PM
"Defining the Nation and Its Other: Discussing Nazi Ideology in Syria 
and Lebanon during the 1930s"
Götz Nordbruch, Georg Eckert Institut, Braunschweig

4:15 – 4:30 PM
Coffee/Tea and Refreshments

4:30 – 5:45 PM
"Get Out of Mosul, Hajj Amin: Iraqi Elites, Iraqi Jews, and Nazism"
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago

5:45 – 6:00 PM
Closing Remarks

A PDF version of the printed program that will be distributed at the 
symposium can be found at the following link:

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmchs/documents/2015MillerSymposiumProgram-1.pdf

Please feel free to contact us with questions at <[log in to unmask]>.

Hope to see you later this week!

best,

AES

-- 
Alan E. Steinweis
Professor of History
Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies
Director, Miller Center for Holocaust Studies
University of Vermont
Old Mill, Room A506
94 University Place
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0114
USA