We invite scholars across academic disciplines to present new research on explorations of the effect of the Holocaust on the present and on the way in which the present understands, defines and/or represents that past.

Possible questions to consider would include: the evolution of the Holocaust as discourse; how does one negotiate the language of the Holocaust as survivors die, leaving future generations responsible for the vocalization of their memories; what are the limits of acceptable discourse when discussing the Shoah? How do survivors of perpetrators and bystanders navigate through feelings of guilt and responsibility? How do survivors talk to each other and how do they talk to their children?

Keynote Speakers: Professor Marianne Hirsch (Comparative Literature) and Professor Leo Spitzer (History), Columbia University and Professor Atina Grossmann (History), Cooper Union, NYU

Please send abstracts of individual papers and/or complete panel proposals to the following individuals:
For History:
Beth Griech-Polelle
bgriech@bgnet.bgsu.edu
For German Literature and Film:
Christina Guenther, cguenth@bgnet.bgsu.edu
For Theater: John Sebestyen, johnsebestyen@hotmail.com
For English: Ramona Dunckel, mdunk527@yahoo.com
For Music: Marilyn Shrude and Mary Natvig, mshrude@bgnet.bgsu.edu and mnatvig@bgnet.bgsu.edu
For Graduate student sessions and Undergraduate student sessions: jonklei@bgnet.bgsu.edu and bobby98is@yahoo.com