2017
Is Broken Faith Still Faith? Reflections on the Final Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of the Warsaw Ghetto (4/11/18)
Sep. 7, 2017—April 11th at 7 p.m. Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was considered one of the great heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, shepherding his flock of broken Jews as the ghetto turned increasingly into the nightmare it became. As time went on, the elasticity of Shapira’s own faith was tested as...
Can We Speak of a Divine Purpose to the Holocaust? Hasidic and Religious Zionist Perspectives (4/12/18)
Sep. 7, 2017—April 12th at 7 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room “Where was God in the Holocaust?” is one of the most frequently asked questions when the Holocaust is studied from a theological perspective. From a traditional covenantal point-of-view, one cannot easily say that God was absent in the Holocaust. Yet, from an empirical point-of-view, the...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past (1/26/18)
Sep. 6, 2017—January 26th at 7 p.m. Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Teege, an international best-selling author, will be the HLS keynote speaker for spring semester. At age thirty-eight Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf having no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in...
Genocide Prevention Response Simulation (1/20-21/18)
Sep. 6, 2017—January 20th 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. January 21st 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School Participants in this interactive experience will meet in one of six groups, which will in turn assemble in plenary sessions designed to develop appropriate responses to an impending mass atrocity. The scenario is quite realistic and exposes groups...
Out of Darkness: A Chamber Performance by The Blakemore Trio and Friends with a Lecture by Joy H. Calico, Professor of Musicology (10/28/17)
Sep. 6, 2017— October 28th at 7 p.m. Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music Blair musicians Amy Dorfman, piano; Carolyn Huebl, violin; Felix Wang, cello; and friends Evan Bish, bass; Bil Jackson, clarinet; Amy Jarman, soprano; Christina McGann, viola; along with Joy H. Calico offer this lecture and performance to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Vanderbilt Holocaust...
Voices of Hope & Resistance: Courage Was My Only Option with Roman Kent (10/24/17)
Sep. 6, 2017—October 24 at 7 p.m. Board of Trust Room, Student Life Center Born in Lodz, Poland, Kent spent the war years in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Mertzbachtal, Dornau, and Flossenburg concentration camps. He arrived in the United States in 1946 under the auspices of the children’s quota of the United States government’s...
Where Memory Leads: 40th Anniversary Keynote by Professor Saul Friedlander (9/26/17)
Sep. 6, 2017—September 26th at 7 p.m. Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School Saul Friedlander is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli/American historian and currently professor emeritus of history at UCLA. Professor Friedlander, a historian and a memoir writer, will explore how these disparate genres intersect and, more importantly, where these disciplines of knowing can lead us to a faithful...
Documentary Film: Monsieur Mayonnaise (11/9/17)
Sep. 6, 2017—November 9, 2017 • 7:30 p.m. Movie: Monsieur Mayonnaise Australian artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Resistance in WWII and his mother’s miraculous escape en route to Auschwitz. Philippe, a Hollywood cult-horror movie director and pop artist, adopts a film noir persona to tell his family’s story of...