Past Events

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

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
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

Jewish Identity and Communist Belief.
Lea Grundig’s Path from Dresden to Palestine and back to Dresden
Lecture by Eckhart Gillen, Berlin
August 5, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoe Strimpel, British Historian
Rhodes Must Stand: a lightly Jewish perspective on
why we must learn to live with the past, not destroy it
July 15, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

Hans Hofmann:
Coming to America
Lecture by Karen Wilkin, NY
July 1, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

More Surreal Than Surrealism:
Hedda Sterne’s Emigration
June 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
OTHERNESS AND HIDING.
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
with Celebration of Competition Winners
May 20, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Housebound and Hiding.
From Fritz Ascher in 1942
to Ourselves Today in 2020

Eva Fogelman, Ori Soltes, Rachel Stern
March 26, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Panel Discussion
Expressionisms: Germany and the United States
Camp Concert Hall
Modlin Center for the Arts
Richmond, VA
February 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rachel Stern:
Curator’s Walk-Through
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
January 16, 2020 @ 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Opening Reception
Fritz Ascher: Expressionist
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
January 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm