The central theme of the 56th ASC is "The Legacy of Witnessing: Holocaust Memory, Education, and Research in the Twenty-First Century." This year’s conference invites presentations that explore how Holocaust testimony, memory, and scholarship continue to shape contemporary approaches to its history, representation, and teaching, while offering new perspectives for future research and education. [Information from the event website.] 

The lecture "'More than Twenty Years Ago We Shared in a Symposium in Boston – Hannah Arendt and Franklin Littell on Religion and Totalitarianism'" will take place at 4:30 p.m. as part of the section "Clergy and Thinkers Confronting the Holocaust." 

You can find the complete conference schedule here: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/conference-schedule/ 

Dr. Hanno Berger is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas (Miriam Lewis Barnett Chair) and Co-editor of the new, critical edition of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism / Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, which will be published in 2026 in an annotated and expanded version as volume 5 of the Critical Edition.