Friday, Dec. 5th

9:30                Welcome: President Richard Meyers, Webster University
                       Opening Remarks: Warren Rosenblum, Webster University

10:00 – 11:45  Session 1. Modern Racism and Reactions

Tom Jordan, Southern Illinois University  at Edwardsville
Branqueamento: The Imperative to 'Whiten' Brazil

Tracey McCarthy, Webster University
Phylogeny Recapitulates Ontogeny: A Psychodynamic Perspective on Adaptive
and Maladaptive “Constructions” of (An)other

Jennifer Hecht, Nassau County Community College
The Origins and Logic of Antiracism in France

Commentator:  Dan Hellinger, Webster University
Chair: Warren Rosenblum, Webster University
 

12:00-1:00           Lunch

1:15–3:00           Session 2.    Social Policies of Exclusion

Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville
Feminism and Eugenics in Britain and Germany: A Comparative Perspective

Claudia Schoppmann, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) & United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Research Center (USHMM)
“Reeducation” or Extermination? The Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany

Patricia Heberer, USHMM
The Institutionalized as 'Other':  Disabled Victims and Nazi 'Euthanasia' Policy

Commentator: Gar Allen, Washington University
Chair: Bill Huddleston-Berry, Webster University

 3:15-5:00 Session 3.      Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University & USHMM
“Race, Scholarship, and French Jewry at the end of the 19th century”

Steve Carr, Purdue University in Fort Wayne & USHMM
Anti-Semitism and the Hollywood Social Problem Film before the Holocaust

Vladimir Solonari, University of Central Florida
'Good Romanian': Anti-Semitism as Part and Parcel of National Identity in Antonescu Romania

Commentator: Hillel Kieval, Washington University
Chair: Wolf Gruner, Webster University
 

Saturday, Dec. 6th

10:00-11:45 Session 4.     Teaching the History of Otherness

Julia Walsh, Webster University
‘We, Them, and Me:’ Identity and Teaching African-American History

Linda M. Woolf & Michael R. Hulsizer, Webster University
Psychosocial Roots and Ramifications of Mass Prejudice

Don Conway-Long, Webster University
How an Anthropologist Parses Difference

Commentator: Linda Holtzmann, Webster University
Chair: Seena Kohl, Webster University

12:00-1:00      Lunch

1:15-3:00        Session 5.  Identity and the Histories of Racism

Erin McGlothlin, Washington University
Stigmata of Perpetration and Survival in Second Generation Holocaust Literature

Brian Kennelly, Webster University
On the Nature of and Prospects for Bastardy:  Afrikaans as Other?

Robert Vinson, Washington University
Honorary Whites?: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Exclusion in South Africa c.1900

Commentator: Meg Sempreora, Webster University
Chair: Donna Campbell, Webster University

3:00-3:15        Closing Remarks: Wolf Gruner

3:00-4:00        Break-out Session for Teachers
Facilitator:     Joe Stimpfl, Webster University

3:30-5:00       Tour of the exhibit “A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad,”
                      Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis