Past Events (Selection)

•  Lecture, Fr. Patrick Desbois, March 22, 2012
•  Film Viewing: The Search for Argentina’s Lost Children, March 20, 2012
•  Film Viewing:  The Wedding Song (as part of the French Film Festival, February 22, 2012)
•  Martha Bireda, “Re-Segregation in the Post-Brown Era,” January 19, 2012
•  Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisans, January 3 -30, 2012, Faye Schulman
•  “Let’s Talk”: Dialogue between leaders of local Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregations, November 30, 2011 led by Rabbi James Rudin
•  Kristallnacht Remembered, November 8, 2011
•  Children and Poverty Photo Exhibit, September 15, 2011-May 2012 with Dominican Republic Civic Engagement Project, Photographer Chip Hoffman
•  First Annual Symposium: Current Research on the Holocaust: Student Perspectives, April 2011
•  FGCU’s 4th Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by Rabbi James Rudin (author of Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future), March 2011
•  Film-showing and discussion led by director: Anatomy of Hate, March 2011
•  The Nazi Lie: Propagation of Evil: Documentary on Nazi propaganda with discussion led by film-maker Bill Davis, November 2010
•  Lecture and discussion with Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, November 2010
• Talk and reading with Lev Raphael: “Writing & Reconciliation,” March 2010
• Play: Miracle at St. Ottilien, March 2010
• Play: In Memory's Kitchen, featuring Lori Shula, March 2010
• Third annual Visiting Scholar Lecture: Dr. Harry Reicher: "No One Ever Died Illegally in Auschwitz: The Nazis’ Obsession with Legalizing the Holocaust,” February 2010
• Third annual "Interfaith Clergy Seminar and Lecture," led by Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Naples, February 2010
• Robert Edsel, “Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History,” February 2010
• Lecture by Dr. Wendy Chase, Edison State College, on “Modernism, Fascism, and ‘Degenerate Art,’” January 2010
• High school teacher-training workshops with the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, Summers of 2006-2009
• Lecture by Dr. Christopher Browning, University of North Carolina, February 2009
• Second Annual Interfaith Clergy Seminar, led by John Dominic Crossan, January 2009
• Display of Holocaust-era boxcar (on loan from the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida) during the first week of November 2008, accompanied by a series of film-showings, lectures, and other events
• Lecture by Dr. James Waller, author of Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, November 2008
• Film showing: "Swimming in Auschwitz: Survival Stories of Six Women,” with discussion led by director Jon Kean, April 2008
• Guest lecturer: Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory and History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier, February 2008