Symposium
Vanier's 34th Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide
Vanier’s Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide is the only week-long college-level symposium of its kind in Quebec.
Monday, March 23
10:00–11:30 (B223)
Armenian genocide remembrance and its impact on Armenian youth
Alec Oltaci
University of Montreal, student
11:30–1:00 (B223)
Reflections on antisemitism in Canada in the past decade
Ira Robinson
Concordia University, professor emeritus
2:30–4:00 (B223)
A Montreal family’s present-day connection to their Holocaust survival story
Sam Langleben
4:00–5:30 (B223)
How to combat antisemitism: understanding current approaches and future directions
Megan Hollinger
University of Ottawa & Carleton University, PhD candidate, lecturer
Tuesday, March 24
8:00–9:30 (B223)
Echoes of the Holocaust: expulsion of the Jews of Iraq
Odette Masliyah
10:00–11:30 (B223)
Memory as responsibility: understanding the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Lina Sangwa
University of Toronto, student (Vanier alumnus)
12:00–1:30 (B223)
Unmasking the antizionist era: a new face of an old hate
Natasha Pein
Stop AZ
4:00–5:30 (B223)
Living links: the future of Holocaust education
Heider Berger
Foundation for Genocide Education
Wednesday, March 25
10:00–11:30 (B223)
From Antiochus to ZOG: the history of the world’s oldest hatred
Amy Fedeski
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
12:00–1:30 pm (F216)
Holocaust commemoration service
With survivor testimony from Eva Kuper
Made possible with support from the Vanier College Students Association
1:30–3:00 (B223)
Learning to remember: Austria’s reckoning with the Holocaust
Philip Makotschnig & Philipp Jandl
Austrian Gedenkdienst interns
3:30–5:00 (B223)
The house we all forgot
Philip Khazzam
Thursday, March 26
10:00–11:30 (B223)
Life, hope and fears: brief history of Jews in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora
Anna Shternshis
University of Toronto, professor
12:00–1:30 (B223)
Recognizing antisemitism through Jewish voices from here
Antoine Simonato
Montreal Holocaust Museum
2:30–4:00 (B223)
Sonic ruptures: the survival of Jewish music and musical practices amidst discrimination
Miranda Crowdus
Concordia University, professor
Friday, March 27
10:00–11:30 (B223)
Recognizing antisemitism through Jewish voices from here
Antoine Simonato
Montreal Holocaust Museum
12:00–1:30 (404 Decarie, Suite 100)
Documenting a changing face, a timeless fight
David Richler