Science, Planning, Expulsion: The National Socialist General Plan for the East
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 – Friday, October 17th, 2008
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | External Event, Room 103, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 230 College Street, University of Toronto |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 | 9:00AM - 5:30PM | External Event, Room 103, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 230 College Street, University of Toronto |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | 9:30AM - 5:00PM | External Event, Room 103, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 230 College Street, University of Toronto |
Description
Between October 15 and December 13, 2008, the Eric Arthur Gallery, 230 College Street, will host the pathbreaking exhibition “Science, Planning, Expulsion: The National Socialist General Plan for the East.” This collection of never before seen photographs and expert commentary conveys the Nazi regime’s plan, submitted to Heinrich Himmler in 1941, to restructure the East racially, demographically, and spatially. The General Plan for the East was arguably the most far-reaching experiment in the use of the tools of scientific planning to re-shape society and built space.
Organized and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the exhibition has been shown throughout Germany during 2007-2008. The Eric Arthur Gallery of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design of the University of Toronto is the only place to show this exhibition outside Germany. To launch the exhibition the University of Toronto will host an international symposium, October 15-17, 2008, at the Eric Arthur Gallery, which will bring together specialists on the history of science, race, population, and architecture to explore the implications of the General Plan for the East for our understanding of the relationship between science, the state, and the restructuring of space.
The Symposium is funded by the University of Toronto (Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science; The Joint Initiative in German and European Studies; the Ray and Rose Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies; Munk Centre for International Studies; Department of History; Office of the Dean, University of Toronto at Scarborough; and the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design) and the German Research Association.
Registration Required: visit the web site link: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6485
The Symposium opens on Wednesday, October15, at 5:00 pm with a Keynote Address by Professor Christopher Browning. The Symposium continues on Thursday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm and on Friday between 9:30 am – 5:00 pm.
The Symposium program will be available on the website of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies: http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres
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