Past Events

Past EventsDave2023-01-26T22:09:49-05:00

Cartoon Crusader:
Arthur Szyk’s War against Nazism
Steven Luckert, Washington DC
April 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Building the Largest Digital Memorial
to the Victims of Nazism:
The Arolsen Archives
with Floriane Azoulay and Giora Zwilling, Arolsen
March 10, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Becoming Jewish:
The Sculptor Benno Elkan (1877-1960)
Christian Walda, Dortmund with
Wolfgang Weick and Ori Z. Soltes
March 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Excluded and yet entangled in two dictatorships:
The political constructivist Oskar Nerlinger
Eckhart Gillen, Berlin
February 10, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Between Art and Record Keeping –
Artistic Representations of the Holocaust
Ori Z Soltes, Washington DC
January 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Live From
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Carolyn Enger’s
Mischlinge Exposé
January 19, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Biala (1903-2000):
The Rash Acts of Rescue and Escape
Jason Andrew, New York
January 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
White Shadows:
The Photograms of Anneliese Hager (1904-1997)
Lynette Roth, Harvard Art Museums
December 2, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Legacy And Creativity:
The Filmmaking and Photography of Kitra Cahana
In Conversation with Ori Z Soltes
November 25, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival:
The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana,
Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana
Lecture by Ori Z Soltes, Washington DC
November 18, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
“Trauma, Memory and Art”
An interdisciplinary virtual conference
with Ori Z. Soltes, Larry R. Squire,
Natan P.F. Kellermann and Eva Fogelman
November 9, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
John Heartfield (1891-1968)
His Political Engagement and Private Life in London
Rosa von der Schulenburg, Berlin
November 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Twitterview @Ascher_Society
Giora Seeliger
“Ask A Healthcare Clown!”
October 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
“The Hospital Clown: Between Joy and Sadness”
Roundtable featuring
Giora Seeliger, Harry Page, Ed Stephan
Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
October 28, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bilder im Gespräch: Bajazzo
Guided Tour through the Exhibition
“The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher”
by Curator Julia Diekmann, Höxter (Germany)
October 27, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
“The Clown on Stage”
Roundtable featuring
Matthew R. Wilson, Ori Z. Soltes, Tricia Manuel / “Pricilla Mooseburger”
Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
October 21, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Painting as an Act of Resistance.
The artist Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)
Anne Sibylle Schwetter, Osnabrück
October 7, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dance under the Swastika:
Mary Wigman and Gyp Schlicht (1917-2015)
Sabine Rollberg, Freiburg
September 16, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Guided Tour through the Exhibition
“The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher”
by Curator Julia Diekmann, Höxter (Germany)
September 12, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression
The difficult case of painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Aya Soika, Berlin
September 2, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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