Summary of Events:
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Bill Giessen Film Screening
“Welcome to Leith”
Jack Levin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminology, Northeastern University
6:30 pm, 240 Dockser, 65 Forsyth Street
Presented by Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Holocaust Awareness Committee, and Humanities Center, in partnership with the Office of the Provost
Wednesday April 11, 2018
Philip N. Backstrom Jr. Survivor Lecture Series
“What History Can Teach Us: Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor
Anna Ornstein, Professor Emerita of Child Psychology
12:00 pm, 909 Renaissance Park, 1135 Tremont Street
Presented by Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Holocaust Awareness Committee, and Humanities Center, in partnership with the Office of the Provost
Wednesday April 11, 2018
26th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture
“Nazism and Fascism: Then and Now”
A conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian, New York University, and Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, The University of Michigan
Moderated by: Dean Uta Poiger, Northeastern University
7:30 pm, Raytheon Amphitheater, 120 Forsyth Street
Presented by Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Law, Holocaust Awareness Committee, and Humanities Center, in partnership with the Office of the Provost
Sponsored by the Robert S. Morton Lecture Fund at Northeastern University
Thursday April 12, 2018
Northeastern Holocaust Commemoration
“Nizkor” (We Remember)
Dance Performance Choreographed by Danielle Murad Weiss, SSH ’19, Gideon Klein Scholar
6:00 pm, Blackman Auditorium, 342 Huntington Avenue
Presented by Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Holocaust Awareness Committee, and Humanities Center, in partnership with University Scholars