Center Seminar Series

October 26, 2020 - via Zoom

Gendering the Holocaust

Dr. Shelly Cline will focus during this seminar on the ways that gender impacted those who experienced the Holocaust. Additionally, she will look at how those gendered differences appear in films in memorialization.

Learning Objectives:

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. Identify why gender is a useful category of analyzing the Holocaust

2. Understand different strategies employed by survivors based on their gender.

Presenter

Shelly Cline is the Historian at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Overland Park, Kansas. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the SS Aufseherinnen in the concentration camp system and the gendered perpetration of the Holocaust. Her research has been supported by grants from the University of Kansas and the Universität Hamburg. She has presented at national and international conferences. Cline has been an instructor in KU's Humanities Program, their Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, and their Jewish Studies Program. She has also served on the faculties of the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Shelly Cline, Ph.D.

Monday, October 26, 2020

7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Please RSVP to 816-512-7438 or administrator@gkcpsa.org.

A Zoom link will be sent by October 23.

CME/CEU are not offered for this seminar.

Free and open to the public.

Helpful Information to Access and Participate in the Center Seminar

· We strongly recommend that you use your PC or Mac for this meeting rather than phone or tablet, as the reception and functionality is much better.

· For those new to Zoom, please click on the link above in this email at the time of the meeting. Click “yes” to allow Zoom to run on your computer, and “yes” to enter the meeting with video turned on (otherwise we can’t see you).

· When you enter the meeting, you will be in mute. This is to ensure that we are not overrun with random sound from each participant’s microphone.

· When called on to speak, you can click the microphone icon at the bottom left of your screen, or you can hold down the space bar. Please be sure to mute yourself again after you have spoken.

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About the Center

The Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center is a nonprofit organization which provides a forum for discussion of theoretical, cultural, and clinical ideas regarding psychoanalysis, as well as networking opportunities for professionals, through community forums, professional workshops and annual film series. Membership is open to any person with a serious interest in psychoanalysis. The Center is the parent organization of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, which provides post graduate training in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. More information about the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center is available at www.gkcpsa.org.