The Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies will host a conference "Representing the Holocaust: Practices, Products, Projections" May 21-23, 2000, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. 

Artists, photographers, curators and academicians will discuss the distinctive problems that confront those attempting to represent the Holocaust in art, photography, museums and monuments.

Presenters include Ariella Azoulay (Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv), Michael Berenbaum (consultant, Los Angeles), Alice Lok Cahana (artist and survivor, Houston), Judy Chicago (artist, Belen, N.M.), Stephen Feinstein (Univ. of Minnesota), Michelle Friedman (Haverford College), Shelley Hornstein (York Univ.), Tami Katz-Freiman (curator, Tel Aviv), Norman Kleeblatt (Jewish Museum, New York), Andrea Liss (California State Univ. of San Marcos), Edward Lucie-Smith (art historian, London), Peter Novick (Univ. of Chicago), Art Spiegelman (comix artist, New York), Oren Stier (Florida International Univ.), Debbie Teicholz (photographer, Demarest, N.J.), Ernst van Alphen (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningem, Rotterdam), Mindy Weisel (artist, Washington, D.C.), and Barbie Zelizer (Univ. of Pennsylvania).

See http://www.lehigh.edu/~inber/conference.html for details or contact the Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Lehigh University, 9 West Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015-3082: (610) 758-4869, fax (610) 758-4858, e-mail inber@lehigh.edu.