Powell-Heller Conference

Please join us for the 18th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: “More Than Dust: Reclaiming LGBTQ+ Voices of the Holocaust” from November 4-6, 2026.

This year’s conference focuses on LGBTQ+ experiences of the Holocaust. We will welcome historian Anna Hájková as our Raphael Lemkin speaker. Her book, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, serves as the foundation for this year’s programming. The conference features a special theater performance and a film screening alongside its academic components. Attendees will hear from leading international scholars in the field, including Laurie Marhoefer and Samuel Clowes Huneke, as well as a workshop from educators at The Pink Triangle Project and pedagogy sessions from educators at Yad Vashem. Through theater, film, keynote lectures, and panel discussions, participants will discover new methodologies for confronting historical erasure, ultimately reshaping how we archive, remember, and honor the Holocaust.

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Thanks to the generosity of donors, this event is free and open to the public.