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Monday, June 1, 2009

Introduction

Welcome: Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President, B’nai Brith Canada
Keynote Address: The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Canada
Special Presentation to the Minister: Joe Bogoroch, National President, B’nai Brith Canada
Introductory Remarks: Ruth Klein, National Director, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada; Conference Director

Opening Plenary

The Politics of Exclusion: A Three-Country Perspective on an Era of Discrimination

Moderator: Professor Alain Goldschläger, Conference Chair (Fr)
Panelists: Professor Tal Bruttmann, Historian, City of Grenoble; Teacher Trainer, Musée de la Shoah (Fr)
Mark Weitzman, Director, Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Professor Robert Jan van Pelt, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo
Response: The Honourable Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament; Special Counsel on Human Rights and International Justice for the Liberal Party of Canada; Member, Steering Committee, Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Anti-Semitism

Breakout Sessions

The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers: Studies from Both Sides of the Atlantic

Facilitator: Paul Marsden, Senior Military Archivist, Government Records, Library and Archives Canada
Presenters: Scott Miller, co-author of “Refuge Denied”; Director, Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Diane Afoumado, author of “Exil impossible. L’errance des Juifs du paquebot ‘St-Louis’”; Lead researcher, Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Fr)

Public Opinion in the Exclusion Process: Perspectives from Canada and France

Facilitator: Allan Adel, National Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada
Presenters: Jack Jedwab, Executive Director, Association for Canadian Studies
Iannis Roder, Coordinator of Teacher Training, Mémorial de la Shoah; French Ministry of Education (Fr)

Developing Collaborative Curricula: How Holocaust Education Impacts on Teaching the Issues of Today

Facilitator: Professor Mark Webber, Centre for German and European Studies, York University
Presenters: Myra Novogrodsky, Former Coordinator, Equity Studies Centre, Toronto District School Board; Chair, Advisory Board, Facing History and Ourselves Canada
Leora Schaefer, Program Director, Facing History and Ourselves Canada

One Country, Many Realities: The Role of Canadian Holocaust Museums

Facilitator: Yude Henteleff, C.M., Q.C., Chair, Contents Advisory Committee, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Presenters: Carla Divinsky, Holocaust Education Coordinator, Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre
Alice Herscovitch, Executive Director, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
Frieda Miller, Executive Director, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
Carson Phillips, Educator, Holocaust Centre of Toronto


Plenary Panel

The Mechanics of Exclusion: Then and Now

Moderator: Margaret Wells, OISE/University of Toronto
Panelists: Professor Doris Bergen, Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto
Dr. Amanda Grzyb, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
David Matas, immigration and refugee lawyer; Senior Legal Counsel, B’nai Brith Canada


Breakout Sessions

Closing the Doors: A Case Study from the St. Louis Era

Facilitator: Dr. Paula Draper, Holocaust historian
Presenters: Dr. Gerhard Bassler, Department of History, Memorial University; author of “Sanctuary Denied”
Dr. Michael McGowan, Director, Holocaust Centre, St. Thomas University

Canadian Immigration and Integration Policy: Understanding the Dynamics

Facilitator: Albert Lo, Chairperson, Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Presenters: Naomi Alboim, Fellow and Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University; former Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
Howard Duncan, Executive Head, Metropolis Project

Best Practices in Holocaust Education

Facilitator: Joan O’Callaghan, OISE/University of Toronto
Presenters: Jonathan Friedrichs, Killarney Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia
Rachel Gracey, Quaker Road Public School, Welland, Ontario
Neil Marr, Head, History Department, Bayview Secondary School, Richmond Hill, Ontario
Keith Samuelson, Curriculum consultant; former Global Education Coordinator, Prince of Wales Collegiate, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Testimonies and Temporality: Memory, Memoirs and Memorialization

Facilitator: Andrea Knight, Managing Editor, Holocaust Survivors Memoirs Publishing Program, Azrieli Foundation
Presenters: Professor Alain Goldschläger, Director, Holocaust Literature Research Institute, University of Western Ontario; Ontario Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada
Professor Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History, Concordia University

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Plenary Panel

Building the Infrastructure to Fight Exclusion: Canada’s Role in the International Task Force

Moderator: Karel Fracapane, Head of International Relations, Mémorial de la Shoah; former Executive Secretary, Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research (Fr)
Panelists: Ümit Kiziltan, Deputy Director General, Multiculturalism Branch, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Greg Mattson, Special Advisor on Holocaust Issues, US Department of State
Guy Broc, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France (Fr)


Breakout Sessions

Tilting at Windmills: Canada’s Response to the ‘Nazi Olympics’

Facilitator: Professor Hilary Earl, Department of History, Nipissing University
Presenters: Professor Richard Menkis, University of British Columbia
Professor Harold Troper, OISE/University of Toronto

The Intersection of People and Policy: The Quebec Experience in Integrating Immigrant Communities

Facilitator: Moïse Moghrabi, Quebec Regional Chair, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada (Fr)
Presenters: Professor Frédérick Guillaume Dufour, Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal (Fr)
Professor Marie McAndrew, Canada Research Chair in Education and Ethnic Relations, Université de Montréal; Member, Advisory Committee, Bouchard Taylor Commission on Accommodation Practes Related to Cultural Differences (Fr)

Integrating Historical Record into Current Curriculum: A Practical Workshop for Teachers featuring Two Key Resources from the Holocaust Era

Facilitator: Melissa Mikel, Director of Education, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
Presenters: John Myers, Pre-service Teacher Instructor, OISE/University of Toronto
Jonathan Friedrichs, Killarney Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia

The Academic Arena: A Look at Formal and Informal Approaches to Holocaust Education at the University Level

Facilitator: Professor Michael Brown, Centre for German and European Studies, York University
Presenters: Profesor Frank Bialystok, Department of History, University of Toronto; chair, Canadian Jewish Congress – Ontario Region
Jacquie Chic, Instructor, Department of Politics and Public Administration and Member, Holocaust Education Committee, Ryerson University
Rick Stapleton, Archivist Librarian, Virtual Museum of the Holocaust and the Resistance, McMaster University, together with Madeleine Levy, Program Chair, Holocaust Education and Rembrance, Association for the United Nations, Hamilton Branch


Closing Plenary

Facilitated Discussion with Conference Participants – Moving Forward: A National Task Force and Beyond

Moderator: Toni Silberman, Board of Directors, Canadian Race Relations Foundation; National Chair, Commission on Holocaust Education, B’nai Brith Canada
Panelists: Professor Frank Bialystok, Department of History, University of Toronto; Chair, Canadian Jewish Congress – Ontario Region
Alice Herscovitch, Executive Director, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
David Matas, immigration and refugee lawyer; Senior Legal Counsel, B’nai Brith Canada


Closing Remarks

Professor Alain Goldschläger, Conference Chair (Fr)