The 40th Annual Scholars' Conference will be held from March 6-8, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA
Elie Wiesel - Honorary Chairman
Saint Joseph's University - Host
Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J. - Honorary Host Chairman
Dr. Nancy R. Fox and Dr. William Madges - Host Program Co-Chairpersons
Dr. Hubert G. Locke - Conference Chairman
Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell - Conference Executive Director, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
The Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches was founded in 1970 by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke as an interfaith, interdisciplinary and international gathering of scholars, educators, clergy and community leaders. Throughout the decades, the Conference has been devoted to remembering, learning and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust by examining the issues raised by the “Final Solution.”
A Message from the 2010 Conference Chairman and Co-Founder, Hubert G. Locke:
The previously announced theme of the Annual Scholars Conference has been changed, due to the death of the Conference's beloved founder, Franklin Littell. Dr. Littell's intellectual interests were enormous and wide-ranging, and while the conference will continue to highlight his primary scholarly preoccupation with the Holocaust and the German Church Struggle, it is only fitting that the 40th anniversary meeting embrace the wider sphere of his work and thought.
Accordingly, the theme of the 40th Annual Scholars Conference is CRISIS AND CREDIBILITY IN THE JEWISH CHRISTIAN WORLD: REMEMBERING FRANKLIN H. LITTELL.
Papers that examine these two polar ideas - the crises posed by the massacre of European Jewry, by political extremism, by the persistence of antisemitism, and the credibility these events pose, especially for the Christian world and for Jewish-Christian relations are especially invited. [Papers devoted to the earlier announced theme which focused on the American response to the Holocaust will also be welcomed and are a fitting contribution to the conference theme].
Major Topics include:
| American Policies & Actions | Survivor’s Voices |
| Role of Religious Institutions | Professional & Vocational Ethics |
| Genocide and Ethno-religious Wars | The Role of the Nurses |
| Resistance and Rescue | Women During the Holocaust |
| Role of the Partisans | Holocaust Education through Literature, the Arts & Film Dedicated to the memory of Stephen Feinstein |
| The Politics of Antisemitism | The Midrash Group: Christian & Jewish Scholars examine Biblical Text |
| New Forms of Holocaust Denial |
New Research |
