Symposium

31st Annual Vanier College Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide: “Challenging the Other in Us: Towards a Global Understanding”

24 mars 2023

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Vanier College is pleased to announce the program for the upcoming 31st Annual Vanier College Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide.  From March 27-31, 2023, the symposium will explore the theme:  Challenging the Other in Us: Towards a Global Understanding where speakers will deal with the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust.  The event will be hybrid in that most speakers will be live in the Vanier Auditorium (A-103) and some will be carried on Zoom. See the brochure and the list of Zoom Links to access talks virtually.  Speakers include the following.

  • Jeff Schoep, Leaving Hate Behind, formerly led the National Socialist Movement (NSM) (once the largest and most active neo-Nazi group in the United States) and now consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, March 27, 2023, 10 AM.

  • Elyse Semerdjian, author of the book Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide. Foremost among images of the Armenian Genocide are those of tattooed Islamized Armenian women, whose blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. March 27, 2023, 2:30 PM

  • Erez Kroganovitz, photographer, Tedx speaker, leads the Humans of the Holocaust project: Changing the Way We Talk About the Holocaust, March 28, 2023, 11:30 AM.

  • Marina Namat is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada. Prisoner of Tehran and After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed. March 28, 2023, 1 PM.

  • Gerardine Umulisa, Rwandan Genocide Survivor, works atS hared Services Canada / Government of Canada as a Conflict Resolution Adviser. She has particular interests in Social Justice and Women's Rights. March 28, 2023, 3 PM

  • Sharon Polsky, President, Privacy and Access Council of Canada: Privacy and Technology Then and Now: Pitfalls, Perils and Parallels. The past 100 years has seen technological advancements that have provided medical, scientific, social, and economic benefits across the globe. But, technology is now being used to remove privacy. Sharon Polsky will explore how technology has been — and is being — used to control populations and undermine individual privacy rights. March 29, 2023, 1:30 PM

  • David Hackl is a 23-year-old Holocaust Memorial Volunteer (Gedenkdiener) from Austria, working with the Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Foundation in Montreal. Daniel’s multimedia presentation focuses on the role propaganda played during the Nazi regime and the dangers of misinformation, disinformation and the lack of media literacy today. March 30, 2023, 11 AM

  • Amy Elman, Professor of Political Science and the William Weber Chair of Social Science at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, has worked on behalf of women’s rights and against antisemitism in the US and within Europe for over three decades. March 31, 2023, 2:30 PM

  • Holocaust survivors.