in collaboration with The North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors
February 24, 2019
University of Dallas
SB Hall
2925 Gorman Drive
Irving, TX 75062
"The Holocaust and the Past and Future of Judaism" will be the first regional conference on Jewish Studies in North Texas. The conference will be hosted by the University of Dallas (UD) in collaboration with the North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors (NTCJSP), which includes faculty from Texas and Oklahoma, including SMU, UNT, UTD, TCU, OU, and UD. Students (both undergraduate and graduate) and faculty from the Jewish Studies programs affiliated with NTCJSP have been encouraged to submit paper proposals. Although the central theme of the conference is the Holocaust, papers on many other topics in Jewish Studies will be included in the program.
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10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Room 125 |
The Problem of Hate from the Holocaust to the Present
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11 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
Three Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinkers on Evil: Emil Fackenheim, Erich Fromm, Primo Levi
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12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address
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1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Multipurpose Room |
I Am Afraid: Children in the Holocaust
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3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Room 125 |
The Holocaust: Commemorating It and Moving Beyond It
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4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Room 125 |
Law, Politics, and the Arts in Judaism
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Faculty at the University of Dallas created an undergraduate Jewish Studies concentration five years ago to pursue the principles and ideals of Nostra Aetate, a document of the Second Vatican Council that encouraged Catholics to explore their own Jewish roots through academic study and Jewish-Catholic dialogue.