1:30-3:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 200 Court Yard Building
Art, Film and Letters of the Holocaust:
Ann Kirschner - "The Last New Voices: A Case Study of A Survivor's Inheritance"
Professor Gila Naveh - "Film and Fiction About the Holocaust"
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun - " The film The Pianist: On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War"
Professor Andrea Liss - "Art of the Shoah as Documentation and Post-Witnessing"
Leah Ollman, L.A. Times Art Critic - "Reckoning With the Past (and Future) Through Art"

PhD, University of California, San Diego
Professor of Judaic Studies, Hebrew Language Coordinator

Gila Safran Naveh is Professor of Hebrew Literature and coordinator of the Hebrew Language program. Her interests in JudaicStudies include the Literature of the Holocaust, Critical Theory and Semiotics, Gender Studies and Language Acquisition and Pedagogy. The winner of numerous awards for teaching, Professor Naveh is author of Biblical Parables and Their Modern Recreation: From "Apples of Gold in Silver Settings" to "Imperial Messages" (SUNY Press, 1999), and co-author of The Formal Complexity of Natural Language (Amsterdam: Reidel Publishing, 1987) and numerous articles. A review of Biblical Parables was recently released by Lisa Block De Behar. A book of her original poetry, entitled Different Inquisitions, Another Door, is forthcoming. Professor Naveh's current research is entitled Unpacking the Heart with Words: Women Survivors of the Holocaust Healing through Self-Narratives (forthcoming, SUNY Press). She is currently preparing three textbooks, including Freud and Judaism and Jewish Humor and Women's Humor.