Program

Friday, December 15
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  • Meet & Greet at the iHotel and Conference Center in the Technology Room

    Saturday, December 16
  • Syposium located at the Levis Faculty Center; Room 300
    919 West Illinois Street
    Urbana, IL 61801

    9:00 AM
  • Exhibition: Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang Artefacts - Illinois State Museum and University of Illinois Library Archives
    9.30 AM
  • Introduction - Dr. Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, ACDIS-UIUC
    9.35 AM
  • Welcome and Greetings - Dr. John Wilkin, Interim Provost, UIUC Consul Li Han, Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago

    The Nanjing Massacre and the Events that Led to the Fall of the Chinese Capital
    Chair: Dr. Cliff Singer, ACDIS Director, UIUC

    9:50 AM
  • Remembering Kangzhan: World War II in China - Dr. Poshek Fu, UIUC
    10:30 AM
  • Coffee Break & Exhibition of Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang Artefacts - Illinois State Museum and University of Illinois Library Archives
    10:45 AM
  • The Nanjing Massacre and American Eyewitnesses - Dr. Suping Lu, University of Nebraska
    11:25 AM
  • The Legacies of the Japanese Empire in East Asian Security Today - Dr. Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinios University
    12:05 PM
  • Panel Questions and Discussion
    12:15 PM
  • Lunch Break & Exhibition of Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang Artefacts - Illinois State Museum and University of Illinois Library Archives

    Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang
    Chair: Dr. Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, ACDIS-UIUC

    1:30 PM
  • The Race to Nanking from Iris Chang, excerpts pgs 35-37 reading by Adele Suslick, University Laboratory High School.
    1:35 PM
  • Chinese Farewell Song and Christian Hymn - Madrigal Choir, University Laboratory High School, Richard Murphy
    1:45 PM
  • The Living Goddess of Nanking, from Iris Chang, excerpts pgs 129-134 reading by Adele Suslick, University Laboratory High School.
    1:55 PM
  • December 16th, 1937, Minnie Vautrin's Diary reading by Dr. Elizabeth Majerus, University Laboratory High School.
    2:05 PM
  • Minnie Vautrin and Her Diary during the Rape of Nanking - Dr. Hua-Ling Hu
    2:35 PM
  • December 17th, 1937, Minnie Vautrin's Diary reading by Dr. Elizabeth Majerus, University Laboratory High School.
    2:45 PM
  • Vautrin Documentary - Dr. Hua-Ling Hu
    3:15 PM
  • December 18th & 19th, 1937, Minnie Vautrin's Diary reading by Dr. Elizabeth Majerus, University Laboratory High School.
    3:25 PM
  • Here War Is Simple, Poem by W H Auden a British Poet who saw the war in China - Adele Suslick, University Laboratory High School.
    3:30 PM
  • Coffee Break & Exhibition of Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang Artefacts - Illinois State Museum and University of Illinois Library Archives
    3:40 PM
  • The Forgotten Holocaust: A second Rape from Iris Chang, pgs. 199-200 reading by Adele Suslick, University Laboratory High School.
    3:50 PM
  • Forgotten or Ignored? Cold War Perception of the Asian Holocaust in the U.S. - Dr. Shau-Jin Chang
    4:30 PM
  • Remembering Iris Chang - Video presentation
    4:35 PM
  • Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanjing - Recalling the Forgotten Holocaust of WW II - Dr. Ying-Ying Chang
    5:15 PM
  • Discussion
    5:30 PM
  • Exhibition of Minnie Vautrin and Iris Chang Artefacts - Illinois State Museum and University of Illinois Library Archives