North Texas Jewish Studies Conference

The Problem of Hate from the Holocaust to the Present 

• Sarah Snyder, The Importance of the Cog: The Role of Adolf Eichmann in the Context of Jane Bennett, University of Texas at Dallas
• Pamela Hopkins, The Origins of the Leftist Mind from the Enlightenment: Its Impact on European Jewry, University of North Texas
• Mary-Cathryn Haas, Atmospheres and Compositions of the Self-Loathing Jew, University of North Texas
• William Lunny, The Effects of Antisemitism on Jewish Composers, University of North Texas

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Room 125

Three Post-Holocaust Jewish Thinkers on Evil: Emil Fackenheim, Erich Fromm, Primo Levi

• Martin D. Yaffe, Kantian Philosophy vis-à-vis the Evil of the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim’s Second-Thoughts, University of North Texas
• Shamim Hunt, Post-Holocaust “Jewish” Theology of Erich Fromm, University of Texas at Dallas
• David Patterson, Emil L. Fackenheim, Primo Levi, and the Muselmann, University of Texas at Dallas

12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Multipurpose Room

Keynote Address

• Sharon Portnoff, Primo Levi's Dignifying Holocaust Witnessing
  and
  Lunch for ticket holders

I Am Afraid: Children in the Holocaust

• Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, University of Texas at Dallas, an interview with
  Charles Sullivan, University of Dallas, moderator and interviewer
• Cindy Renker, University of North Texas, interviewer
• Rick Halperin, Southern Methodist University, interviewer

The Holocaust: Commemorating It and Moving Beyond It

• Deborah Fripp, A New Holocaust Commemoration for the Future of Judaism, Teach the Shoah Foundation
• John P. Williams, Within these Hallowed Halls: Anti-Semitism on Campus – A Tale of Quotas, Exclusion and Demonization, University of North Texas
• Reid Heller, All the Maps of Blood and Flesh: The Jewish Situation in the Work of Two Poets, Yehudah Amichai and Leonard Cohen, University of North Texas

Law, Politics, and the Arts in Judaism

• Maddison Craig, Ike’s Opinions: Eisenhower’s Foreign Policy and Thought and Memory of the Jewish People, University of North Texas
• Angela Lill, Maimonides and the Problem of the Huqqim, University of Dallas
• Amal Shafek, Falafel for Identity, University of Texas at Dallas