2007 Legacy of the Holocaust Conference to include concert

Keynote address by Stephen C. Feinstein (Saturday, May 26)

Revised Conference schedule

Itinerary for Full-Day Bus Tour of Southern Galicia (Friday, May 25)

Dear 2007 Legacy of the Holocaust Conference participants,

The Conference is rapidly approaching, and we want to provide the following reminders and updates:

Arrival and Departure Information

This will be a final reminder that the registration fee (regular or student) for the entire Conference includes transportation from and to the Krakow airport or main railway station.  However, we must have your flight or train arrival information no later than May 11^th.

AV Equipment

All rooms will have a laptop computer with Power Point, an LCD projector and a screen.  Those presenters who have requested an OHP will have one available.

With a view toward erring on the side of caution, I want to make the following recommendations:

1. If you plan to use a DVD, we recommend that you bring your own laptop.  The laptops we will have available may not have multi-format capability, so it is safer for those of you from regions outside of Europe to bring a laptop with a DVD player that you know you can rely on.

2. If audio quality is a high priority, please consider bringing small external speakers with you.  If there is any other special equipment you need, please plan on bringing it.

Please let us know if you have any questions about AV equipment.  We have attempted to accommodate requests for equipment, but we want to be sure that you will have the equipment that you need for your presentation. 

We encourage you to test the equipment in advance, if possible, and we will do what we can to facilitate that. Bring back-up copies of Power Point presentations.  At the beginning of the day on which you present, we will help you download your presentation onto the desktop of the laptop in the room that you will be using for your presentation. 

Presentations 

Regardless of whether your section has two presentations or three, we ask you to make sure that your presentation is a maximum of twenty (20) minutes.  We have asked section chairs to remind presenters of the need to keep the presentation to 20 minutes, and we have asked them to be firm if presenters seem to be ignoring the time limit.  Sections in which time limits are not respected create tension for presenters and members of the audience alike.  In addition, we want to allow Conference registrants to hear a presentation in one section and then go to a presentation in another section.  If each presentation is no longer than 20 minutes, this is feasible.  If for some reason a presentation runs slightly longer than 20 minutes, the question/comment period will be reduced so that the next presentation begins “on time” (i.e., 30 minutes after the previous presentation began). 

Registration  

If you have not already sent us your registration form and payment, plan on registering on site at the Conference.  Anyone whose registration fee has not been received by Wednesday, May 9, will be expected to pay the registration fee at the Conference.   

Conference Schedule  

Attached is the “final” draft of the Conference schedule.  Please check this draft to make sure that all information is correct:  that your name, affiliation, and title of your presentation are listed correctly. 

By way of clarification, all titles are listed with only the first letter of the first word of the title (and of the subtitle, if there is one) capitalized (except for proper nouns).  In addition, for presenters from the United States, we are including the official abbreviation for states in cases where your university or other affiliation does not contain the name of the state. 

List of Conference Participants 

We plan to make available a list of all Conference participants shortly after the Conference.  This will enable us to provide you with a complete and accurate list of everyone who registers for the Conference, including those who register on site.  We will include e-mail addresses of all registrants who provide one, unless you tell us not to make your e-mail address available.  This list will be sent to you electronically. 

Emergency Contact 

Please use e-mail for all communication regarding the Conference.  If you need to communicate by telephone with a Conference organizer in Poland about an emergency or some other urgent issue, please contact Dr. Wladyslaw Witalisz; his cell phone (mobile telephone) number is:  0048 601 481327

Please use this number only within Poland and only for urgent matters.