Upcoming Events Spring 2013

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NU Interfaith Council(NUIC) Dinner Dialogue Dates:     

NUIC is an opportunity to meet folks of all different religious and spiritual traditions over dinner. We welcome those back who attended last year and new folks interested in joining us.  All are welcome! 

Wednesdays from 6 to 7:15pm in the Sacred Space.  

  • April 10th

 

 

 

Holocaust Awareness Week

HOLOCAUST AWARENESS WEEK
 
April 8-11, 2013
 
Presented by the Northeastern Humanities Center with the Holocaust Awareness Committee

For more information please visit here: http://www.northeastern.edu/humanities
 
EVENTS
 
Northeastern Holocaust Commemoration*
Monday, April 8, 2013
7:30 a.m.
Raytheon Amphitheater
240 Egan Research Center / 120 Forsyth Street
 
“Lullaby: A Child’s Experience of Terezin through Music”
Heather Viola, Gideon Klein Scholar 
 
“‘Well Worth Saving’: How American Universities Selected Faculty Fleeing Nazi-Era Europe”
Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism and Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies
 
 RSVP Required: RSVP to Alison Smith at ali.smith@neu.edu or 617.373.5136
 
The 21st Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture:  Daniel Mendelsohn
Monday, April 8, 2013
5:00 p.m.
20 West Village F / 40A Leon Street

 Daniel Mendelsohn
 
 “’Lost’ Between Memory and History: Writing the Holocaust for the Next Generation”
Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the best-selling book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), will explore the evolving meaning of the Holocaust as both a historical and literary event. Mendelsohn's important lecture comes at a critical moment as this history passes to a new generation of writers and readers. Mendelsohn asks: Does the injunction to "never forget” put us at risk of "forgetting" individual stories as they are reshaped into the large manageable parables cultures need to live by.

Author Talk and Lunch with Matthew Brzezinski; Co-sponsored with the Political Science Department
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
12:00 p.m.
Raytheon Amphitheater
240 Egan Research Center / 120 Forsyth Street
 
"Heroism in the Holocaust"
 
Matthew Brzezinski recently published his fourth book, Isaac’s Army, a nonfiction narrative set in the Holocaust that was named a Finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. This talk will discuss the myth of passivity during the Holocaust by showing that resistance was far more widespread than is generally acknowledged. He will talk about the different forms that resistance took, and how extraordinarily difficult it was for Jews to resist in an organized manner as compared to other groups in occupied Europe. He will also address how in some cases, not resisting was the ultimate act of courage.
 
Bill Giessen Film Series
From Swastika to Jim Crow
Featuring Northeastern University Faculty Panel
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 p.m.
Amilcar Cabral Center / 40 Leon Street
 
Laurel Leff will introduce the film.  After the film, a panel discussion between Margaret Burnham, Charissa Threat, and Laurel Leff will be moderated by James Ross. 
 
From the 1930s to the rise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, From Swastika to Jim Crow is a mesmerizing chronicle of Jim Crow America and a profoundly moving tale of two seemingly different groups - the formal, heavily accented European scholars and their young, Southern Black students - who enriched each other's lives in ways still being felt today. That refugees from Nazi Germany were welcomed by historically black colleges remains an inspirational story for the 21st century.
 
Philip N. Backstrom, Jr. Survivor Lecture Series
Stephan Lewy
Thursday, April 11, 2013
10:30 a.m.
440 Egan Research Center / 120 Forsyth Street
 
Berlin-born Stephen Lewy was just 7 years old when the Nazis took power in Germany. He spent the next nine years undergoing discrimination, displacement, and abandonment. His Jewish father struggled to make a living and stay alive under constant threat of imprisonment in a concentration camp. His mother’s Protestant family disowned him after her death. Lewy barely survived Kristallnacht, as he was locked in a synagogue with 100 other Jewish children. He escaped to France with a children’s transport, a step ahead of the German invasion. He hid in various places in France until finally securing a visa to the United States in 1942. Lewy returned to Europe as an American soldier 10 days after D-Day and witnessed the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Years later, Lewy attended night school at Northeastern University, earning a degree in accounting
 
All events at Northeastern University. 
 
All events free and open to the public.
 
*This event is also part of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities new series titled “Conflict, Civility, Respect, Peace: Northeastern Reflects” an educational series on civic sustainability presented with the Office of Student Affairs. 

 

  • Selected Social Justice Resource Center (SJRC) programs: Gender Stereotypes Dialogue March 13, 7-8 p.m.; Hunger Banquet during Food Justice Week March 27, 12-1 p.m.; and Earth Day movie (Erin Brockovich) and dialogue event April 3, 6-8 p.m.
  • Interfaith Community Service Activity for Earth Week: Charles River Clean-up  April 20

     Holy Days and Sacred Seasons:

  • Visitors welcome to Eastern Orthodox Lenten Liturgy April 3, 5pm in the Sacred Space
  • Passover, Christian Holy Week and Easter
  • Tentative Programs: Buddhist Monk visiting, and Catholic Students Association screening of “The Human Experience”, Holi Celebration/ Indian Festival of Colors
  • Spiritual Practices for Stress Management sessions during finals
  • Scholarships available to Summer Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI) summer program, overnight at Brandeis University, June 25 – July 1 (see www.coopmet.org)
  • Alternative Spring Break trips
  • Ongoing invitation to visit each other’s groups and events (see www.neu.edu/spirituallife for days and times)