Endowed Keynote Lectures
Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Thanks to the generous support of the Barnett and Jaffe families, the Annual Scholars’ Conference (ASC) has two endowed lectures, the Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture and the Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture. Both are open to the public and held annually in conjunction with the ASC.
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture
“But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”
Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m.
This year’s Barnett Lecture is being presented by Dr. Charlotte Schallié, Professor of Germanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada).
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture
“The Legacy of the Holocaust by Bullets in Contemporary Mass Crimes and Genocides”
Sunday, March 3 at 9 a.m.
This year’s Jaffe Lecture is being presented by Marco Gonzalez, director of Yahad-In Unum, who has worked alongside Father Patrick Desbois for more than twenty years collecting evidence and testimonies of the “Holocaust by Bullets.”
Previous Conferences
Recordings of the lectures are available by clicking on the titles below.
53rd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (2023)
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture:
Dr. Martin Dean, “1933, 1938, and 1943 – Continuity and Change: The Evolution of the Holocaust”
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture:
Dr. Glen Kurtz, “Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film”
52nd Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (2022)
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture:
Dr. Bernice Lerner, “The Ethics of Rescue: Stories Behind the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen”
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture:
Prof. Abebe Zegeye, “From Kaiser’s Genocide to Hitler’s Rhineland Bastard”
51st Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (2021)
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture:
Pieter Kohnstam, “A Chance to Live: A Family’s Journey to Freedom”
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture:
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, “Shoah Through Muslim Eyes”
50th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (2020)
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture:
Eva and Robert Ratonyi, “Holocaust Childhood: Wounds that Never Heal”
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture:
Dr. Wolf Gruner, “Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany”
49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (2019)
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture:
Dr. Eliza S. Wong, “The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust”