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Opening Reception
Thursday, October 25, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Exhibition viewing and refreshments
Free; R.S.V.P. by calling the Weisman events line at 612-626-4747

Lecture
Objects and Issues: The Question of Restitution of Looted Art from the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
Stephen Feinstein with Lyndel King
Sunday, October 28, 2:00 p.m.
Stephen Feinstein presents a slide lecture examining some of the complexities regarding the looting of art and other objects from the Nazi era. Lyndel King, director of the Weisman Art Museum, provides additional commentary on issues of museum practice and art looting. Feinstein is the program director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. King has worked on Nazi looting issues with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), and testified in 2000 on behalf of the AAMD before a U.S. Congressional Committee studying assets.

Lecture
The Architecture of Auschwitz
Robert Jan van Pelt
Sunday, November 11, 2:00 p.m.
Robert Jan van Pelt, professor of architecture at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, is the world's foremost expert on the construction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex. He was the chief witness for the defense in the David Irving-Deborah Lipstadt trial last year in London, presenting evidence that aided Lipstadt's contention that Irving was a Holocaust denier. This program is co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council.

Lecture
Fritz Stransky: The Several Worlds of a Jewish Lawyer in early 20th Century Bohemia
Gary B. Cohen
Sunday, December 2, 2:00 p.m.
Gary Cohen illuminates the rich context of bookplate collector Dr. Fritz Stransky's life-navigating between Czech and German societies in the Bohemian milieu, and having to face the Nazi onslaught. Cohen is professor of history and director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a specialist on the society and culture of modern Central Europe, particularly Austria and Czechoslovakia.