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