Follow-Up Symposium

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Follow-Up Symposium

February 7-17, 2002

Schedule

(updated February 7, 2002; subject to change without prior notice)

Thursday, February 7

Day 1: (Berlin / Katowice / Stuttgart >) Frankfurt/Main > Toronto

Travel

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Flight to Toronto

Accommodation

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York University Residences

Transfer to airports from Poznan, Kraków, Frankfurt/Oder etc.
ca. Noon / CityBerlinKatowice
FlightLH 887LH 5269
Departs14:0512:40
Arrives15:1514:30 / StuttgartWarsawWarsaw
LH 085LH 3227
14:30 13:30
15:2515:30
Frankfurt: LH 470 departs Frankfurt 16:60, arrives Toronto 19:50
19:50 / Flight will be met at Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1 by Mary and Mark
ca. 21:00 / Transfer to York University
ca. 21:30 / Group Pizza Snack at CCGES, 230 York Lanes
Welcome briefing, followed by move-in

Friday, February 8

Day 2: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 08:45 / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
9:00 / Meet at CCGES [230 York Lanes]
9:15 / Tour of York Campus, including Faculty of Education (Dean Paul Axelrod [9:30]) and Centre for Human Rights and Equity (CS 108)
11:00 / Briefing / planning session, with sign-ups for school visits, reports, alternative events [CCGES]
12:00 / Group Lunch [CCGES]
13:30 / Bilder im Kopf / Obraze w Glowie / Mental Images (Anja Mittermaier) [Founders 211]
15:00 / Break
after 15:00 / Option 1 / Option 2: Free time
Shabbat Services: Anshei Minsk, 10-12 Andrew Street; or Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst Street / Meet group at Professor Brown’s house (see below) at 19:15
ca. 19:15 / Group dinner at home of Professor Michael Brown, 293 Chaplin Crescent (south of Eglinton)
Guest speaker: Professor Howard Adelman: “Immigrants, Refugees, Rights”
ca: 21:30 / Return home / to York campus (Fred Dufour will accompany those returning to York)

Saturday, February 9

Day 3: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

AM / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
Option 1: Shabbat services (see separate list); Narayever services, 187 Brunswick Street, start at 9:15 and are followed by a walking tour of Jewish Toronto, to meet up with the walking tour in Option 2 / Option 2: Free time. Note: A sight-seeing tour of downtown Toronto (on foot and by public transportation) will depart from in front of York Lanes at 10:00 (Agatha Wisniowska, York student)
Lunch at individual discretion
Free time
Dinner at individual discretion
by 19:00 / Return to York and prepare for conference
20:00 – 21:30 / Opening of Conference The Future of Memory (see separate program)
[Founders College Assembly Hall]
22:00 / Group Refreshments [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]

Sunday, February 10

Day 4: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

AM / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
11:00 / Option 1: Opportunity to attend Church Services
Roman Catholic Mass [Scott Religious Centre] / Option 2: Free time
12:00 – 13:00 / Group brunch with conference speakers [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
13:00 – 15:00 / Continuation of Conference (see separate program): Panel 1: Germany
15:00 – 15:30 / Break
15:30 – 17:30 / Panel 2: Poland
17:30 – 19:00 / Group dinner for conference participants
19:00 – 21:00 / Panel 3: Canada and Concluding Discussion
after 21:00 / Free time

Monday, February 11

Day 5: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 08:30

/ Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
08:45 / Meet at CCGES [230 York Lanes]; transfer to N812 Ross
09:00 – 12:30 / Workshop Session 1 [N812 Ross Building]
Mrs. Judith Rubenstein: “Surviving the Holocaust”
Dr. Heike Deckert-Peaceman: “Bridges to the Past”
12:45 – 13:45 / Group lunch [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
14:00 – 17:00 / Workshops Session 2 [N812 Ross Building]
Dr. Aleksandra Boron: “Jewish Identity in a Postmodernist World”
Professor Gottfried Paasche: “Silent Courage: A Film and its Background”
ca. 17:00 / Break
18:00 / Meet at CCGES and transfer to restaurant in private cars
18:30 / Group Dinner at Restaurant King Solomon’s Table, 3705 Chesswood
20:30 / Return to York
From 21:00 / Reunion, consultations and preparations for presentations [CCGES]
Option: Videos, including Irene Tomaszewski’s A Web of War

Tuesday, February 12

Day 6: Toronto > Niagara Falls > Toronto

Travel

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Chartered Bus

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 08:30 / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
08:30 / Pick up box lunches at CCGES, present receipts for reimbursement
08:45 / Depart by chartered bus from York campus
09:30 – 11:45 / Visits to Temple Har Zion, Ja’ffari Islamic Centre and Vishnu Mandir Hindu Temple
12:00 / Depart for Niagara Falls
Lunch / Box lunch en route
PM / Tour of Niagara Falls, Ontario, including “Journey Behind the Falls” and Skylon Tower
Dinner / Group dinner in Niagara Falls [Restaurant TBA]

Evening

/ Return to York campus

Wednesday, February 13

Day 7: Toronto

Travel

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Private cars / public transit

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 08:45

/ Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
09:00 / Meet and pick up box lunches at CCGES; submit any presentation materials for photocopying
09:15 / Visits to school classes (private cars / public transit)
Lunch / Lunch and return to York
by 14:00 / CCGES: Prepare for project presentations / Individual activities as appropriate
17:00 / Depart for Polish Consulate General via “yellow” bus
18:00 – 20:00 / Reception at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, 2603 Lakeshore Blvd. W.
(Host: Consul-General Dr. Jacek Junosza Kisielewski)

Evening

/ Free time and return home / to York
Notes / Ash Wednesday: There will be opportunity to attend services.

Thursday, February 14

Day 8: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 08:30 / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
08:30 – 08:45 / Briefing at CCGES, transfer to N812 Ross
09:00 / Greeting by Dr. Lorna R. Marsden, President and Vice-Chancellor, York University
09:15 – 11:30 / Project presentations 1 - 2 (see separate schedule for details)
11:30 – 12:30 / Group lunch [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
12:45 – 14:45 / Project presentations 3 - 4 (see separate schedule for details)
14:45 – 15:00 / Break (refreshments at individual discretion available nearby)
15:00 – 17:15 / Project presentations 5 - 6 (see separate schedule for details)
17:30 – 18:30 / Dinner [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
18:45 – 19:15 / Walk to Ice Gardens
19:30 – 21:30 / Ice Hockey Game: York University vs. Wilfrid Laurier University [Ice Gardens]
Afterwards / Pub / return home / free time

Friday, February 15

Day 9: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

by 8:45 / Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
09:00 – 09:15 / Briefing at CCGES, present receipts for reimbursement, transfer to N812 Ross
09:15 – 11:30 / Project presentations 7-8 (see separate schedule for details)
11:45 – 12:45 / Group lunch [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
13:00 – 15:00 / Project presentation 9, followed by closing discussion (see separate schedule for details)
15:00 / Break
Option 1: Shabbat services, including: / Option 2: Free time
17:30 / 18:00 / Shabbat Service at First Narayever Congregation (17:30), or at Holy Blossom (18:00)
ca. 19:15 / Dinner at home of Professor Michael Brown, 293 Chaplin Crescent (South of Eglinton)
Guest speaker: Professor Irving Abella: “Canada: From Intolerance to Multiculturalism?”
ca: 21:30 / Return home / to York campus

Saturday, February 16

Day 10: Toronto

Travel

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N/A

Accommodation

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York University Residences

AM

/ Breakfast at individual discretion (save receipts for reimbursement)
Option 1: Shabbat services (First Narayever 9:15, Minsker 9:30, Holy Blossom 10:00) / Option 2: Free time (list of options will be provided)

Lunch

/ Lunch at individual discretion
PM / Free time and snack at individual discretion
From 20:30 / Group pizza party and celebration at Naomi Pfeffer’s (address to be provided),
with opportunity to attend downtown events

Sunday, February 17

Day 11: Toronto

Travel

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Toronto > Frankfurt

Accommodation

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N/A

AM / Breakfast at individual discretion (present receipts for reimbursement)
Option 1: Church services (see separate list) Note: Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated at the Scott Religious Centre at 11:00. / Option 2: Visit to Toronto Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre, 4600 Bathurst Street (private cars)
12:30 – 13:30 / Group Lunch [Vanier College Master’s Dining Room]
13:45 – 14:30 / Transfer to McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario by “yellow” bus
14:30 – 16:30 / Visit to McMichael Canadian Art Collection
16:30 – 17:15 / Return to York, assemble luggage
17:30 – 18:00 / Check out, collect box dinners, good-byes [Vanier Master’s Dining Room]
18:00 / Depart for Airport by “yellow” bus
21:40 / LH 471 departs for Frankfurt/Main

We gratefully acknowledge
the generous support and assistance of:

The Topography of Terror Foundation
(Berlin)

The Department of Canadian Heritage
(Ottawa)

The Heinrich Böll Foundation
(Berlin)

The Adam Mickiewicz University
(Poznan)

The Baden-Württemberg Office for Public Education
(Stuttgart)

The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
(Toronto)

The European University Viadrina
(Frankfurt an der Oder)

Mrs. Gerda Frieberg

The German-Polish Youth Office
(Warsaw and Potsdam)

Mr. Joseph Lebovic

Lufthansa German Airlines

Mr. Al Schrage

The Silber Scholarships for Holocaust Studies at York University

Professor Michael Brown
226 Vanier College
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Phone (416) 736-5623
Fax (416) 736-5344
E-mail / Professor Mark Webber
230 York Lanes
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Phone (416) 736-5695
Fax (416) 736-5696
E-mail
Website:

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