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Jan Karski Conference

Jan Karski Conference

The Jan Karski 2014 Memory and Responsibility Conference in Chicago centered on the legacy of Jan Karski, concentrating on two major themes from his life that touch our world today, Memory and Responsibility. The Conference was held at Loyola University Chicago September 19-21, 2014. The Conference was sponsored by Loyola's Interdisciplinary Polish Studies Program and the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, along with the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago.

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The 2014 Jan Karski Memory and Responsibility Conference Program, Loyola University Chicago

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Spaces that Remember, (Mis)remembered Places, Malgorzata Bakalarz-Duverger

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Micahel Berenbaum

The Becker Family Inaugural Learning Journey, Noreen Brand

The Mechanisms of the Optional Protocol to the Genocide Convention and its links to R2P, Jean-François Bussière-Wallot

Jan Karski and the Sacrifice for the Other: As Presented in in the Play Coming to See Aunt Sophie, Arthur Feinsod

Witnessing, Remembering, Writing: Women’s Stories of Displacement, Deportation, and Political Imprisonment, Ulle Holt

The Shadow of the World War II Experience: Twentieth Century European Atrocities Before, During and After the Holocaust, John J. Kurowski

Post-Holocaust Revenge Fantasies: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Heidi Schlipphacke

Civil Society Organizations Supporting Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at the Multilateral Level, Jennifer Smyser

Debating the Literary and Filmic Memory of Jan Karski, Sue Vice

A Delicate Balance: Polish Portraits in U.S. Film during World War II, Joseph W. Zurawski