The Claremont McKenna College Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights is pleased to announce its first major conference, which is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Department of Sociology at Pomona College, and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Leading scholars will explore aspects of the Holocaust and its aftermath that pertain to what Primo Levi called "the gray zone." Its times and circumstances were infused by ambiguities and compromises that reveal how, in Levi's words, "the greater part of historical and natural phenomena are not simple, or not simple in the way that we would like." Plans for publication of the conference papers are under way. The conference is free and open to the public. For information about lodging and other conference details, please write to holocaustcenter@claremontmckenna.edu or visit CMC's guide to local lodging

Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm
Reception, Dinner, Keynote Address and Discussion on "Gray Zones"
Place: Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College

• Keynote Address: Michael Berenbaum (University of Judaism), "The Sonderkommando"



• Film Excerpts: Evidence



• Commentary: Dario Gabbai (Auschwitz survivor), Gideon Greif (Yad Vashem), Joseph Russin (Filmmaker)

Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Mixed Identities in Nazi Europe
Place: Mary Pickford Auditorium, Claremont McKenna College

• Eva Fleischner (Montclair State University)
• Robert Melson (Purdue University)
• Bryan Rigg (American Military University)

Time: 10:45am-12:15pm
Gender and Sexuality during the Third Reich
Place: Mary Pickford Auditorium, Claremont McKenna College

• Geoffrey Giles (University of Florida)
• Dagmar Herzog (Michigan State University)
• Sara Horowitz (York University)

Time: 1:45pm-3:15pm
Gray Spaces: The Holocaust and Geography
Place: Hahn Hall, Pomona College

• Martin Dean (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Jean Marc Dreyfus (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
• Wendy Lower (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
The Holocaust and Popular Culture
Place: Hahn Hall, Pomona College

• Lynn Rapaport (Pomona College)
• Gavriel Rosenfeld (Fairfield University)
• Ronald Smelser (University of Utah)

Time: 7:00pm
Film
Place: Hahn Hall, Pomona College

• The Grey Zone (USA, 2001, 108 minutes) Written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, based in part of the memoirs of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli.
  Cast: David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Natasha Lyonne, Mira Sorvino, Daniel Benzali, Alan Corduner

Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Business, Denazification, and Justice
Place: Hahn Hall, Pomona College

• Michael Bazyler (Whittier Law School)
• Peter Hayes (Northwestern University)
• Jeffrey Lewis (Ohio State University)
• Jonathan Petropoulos (Claremont McKenna College)

Time: 11:15am-12:45pm
Religion and Ethics During and After the Holocaust
Place: Hahn Hall, Pomona College

• Victoria Barnett (George Mason University)
• John K. Roth (Claremont McKenna College)
• Richard L. Rubenstein (University of Bridgeport)

Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm
Ambiguity and Compromise in the Writing of Holocaust History: The Accomplishment of Raul Hilberg
Place: Mary Pickford Auditorium, Claremont McKenna College

• Christopher R. Browning (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Gerhard L. Weinberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)



• Commentary: Raul Hilberg (University of Vermont)