SATURDAY, MAY 13 | Evening The Next Generation: How Do We Deal with the Sins of Our Fathers – Literally and Metaphorically?

David Goldman, Founder of FASPE David Goldman is the founder and Chairman of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). FASPE promotes ethical leadership within the professions, using the unique lens of the actions, choices, rationales, and motivations of their professional counterparts in Nazi Germany as a starting point for the analysis of contemporary professionalism and professional responsibility. FASPE provides graduate students in professional schools and early career professionals with fellowships to study professional ethics, responsibility, and leadership. The Fellowships now focus on Business, the Clergy, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology. FASPE also conducts ethical leadership training for professionals (and leadership) within law firms, consulting firms, private equity funds, and other corporate organizations. David, now retired, was a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He served as the head of the firm’s International Corporate Practice and as head of the firm’s New York office. David’s practice focused on corporate counseling in a variety of settings and industries. David has served on the board of a number of for‐profit and non‐profit organizations. He was chairman of the Auschwitz Jewish Center and formerly on the Board of the Yale Law School Fund. David is a graduate of Washington University (BA, 1973) and Yale Law School (JD, 1976). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Father Steven Bell, CSP, Paulist Mission Priest Fr. Steven Bell, CSP is a priest with the Missionary Society of St. Paul known also as The Paulist Fathers. Originally from Washington, D.C., he was ordained in the Nation's Capital in June of 2008. His 10 years of priesthood have been active in four assignments. First, he served as Associate Pastor of St. Austin Catholic Parish in Austin, TX, working primarily to boost young adult ministry, augment parish community life and create associations with Diocesan offices, neighborhood organizations, and other faith communities. As Associate Director of Busted Halo Ministries in NY, from 2012-2014, he was engaged in full-time young adult ministry by producing podcasts and videos, offering articles and features, and giving workshops and missions that taught how to engage young adults. In his next assignment, he served three years as the Associate Director of the St. Thomas More Newman Center in Columbus, OH, which is the Catholic campus ministry for Ohio State University. Here, he engaged with students and non-students alike through sacramental celebrations, discipleship and stewardship development, social outreach, faith formation, and collaborative opportunities with the university, other faith communities, and government agencies. He ministered as a mission preacher leading parish missions, church revivals, smaller workshops, and lectures nationally and internationally focusing mainly on reconciliation, discipleship, and spirituality. He has been serving as a faculty member for the seminary program of FASPE where he engages with seminary and medical post-grads and professionals on genocide ethics, and both leads and facilitates discussions on ethical decision-making in the workplace and the public square. Currently, he serves as the Associate Director of Newman Hall–Holy Spirit Parish, the Catholic campus ministry for the University of California, Berkeley.

THURSDAY, MAY 18 | Evening Remaining Decent: German Crimes and Moral Self-Perceptions

Thorsten Wagner, Executive Director, FASPE Thorsten Wagner is a German-Danish historian. Born and raised in Sønderborg, Denmark, Thorsten completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany, and has lived in Berlin since 1993. He conducted graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Freie Universität Berlin, earning his MA from the TU and FU Berlin in 1998 in modern history, political science, and German literature. After serving as an educator at the Jewish Museum of Berlin and a research fellow at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, since 2010 Thorsten has held a permanent position as an associate professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS)/University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Deepa Shivaram, FASPE Fellow Journalism ’22; Washington Desk, NPR Deepa Shivaram is a multi-platform political reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. She joined NPR as a digital reporter in 2021, covering domestic and international breaking news, and reported on stories about climate change, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's resignation, the Afghan refugee crisis, the Tokyo Olympic games, and Asian American representation on screen. Since joining the Washington Desk, she's covered the midterm elections, the Biden administration, and issues like the immigration debates around Title 42 and the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade. Prior to NPR, Shivaram was a political reporter and campaign embed at NBC News where she followed Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren during the 2020 primary elections and covered Harris again when she was tapped as Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee. She also previously worked as an associate producer at NBC's Sunday show, Meet the Press.

FRIDAY, MAY 19 | Evening The ambivalent perpetrator; are you complicit by staying; or are you complicit by leaving?

David Luban, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University David Luban is a University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy. Since 2013, he has also served as the Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. His research interests center on moral and legal responsibility in organizational settings, including law firms, government, and the military. In addition to legal ethics, he writes on international criminal law, national security, and just war theory. His current project is a book on the moral and legal philosophy of Hannah Arendt. Luban is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center and has received prizes for distinguished scholarship from the American Bar Foundation and the New York State Bar Association. In 2011 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University. Shannon Prince, FASPE Fellow Law ’16; Associate, Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, LLP Shannon Prince is an Associate at Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, LLP and practices complex litigation and dispute resolution in a variety of areas. She also has a background in federal Indian law, policing policy, restorative justice, and tenant advocacy, and has been trained as a mediator. Her experience includes representing individuals and corporations as both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts. Prior to joining Boies Schiller Flexner in 2018, Shannon completed her doctoral and master’s degrees at Harvard University, where she was a Graduate Prize Fellow. She also spent a summer as a researcher at the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Summer Institute. Before beginning post-graduate studies, Shannon was a Dartmouth College post-graduate Lombard Fellow and Doughtery Fund Grantee in Mongolia and a Dartmouth post-graduate Reynolds Scholar in Australia. A 2016 Fellow at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics in Law, she is on the FASPE Alumni Steering Committee and currently writes for the FASPE newsletter What We Are Talking About. Her FASPE webinar “Learning from the Germans: Confronting the Legacy of Racism in the Professions” can be found here.

SATURDAY, MAY 20 | Evening Doctors at Auschwitz

Dr. David G. Marwell, author of Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death David G. Marwell, Ph.D is a historian and author. After earning his Ph.D. in European History, he spent nine years at the US Department of Justice, where, as Chief of Investigative Research, he conducted research in support of the investigations and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States. As part of this effort, he played major roles in the Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele investigations and helped to author the two major reports that resulted. In 1988, he became the (last) Director of the Berlin Document Center, a repository for captured personnel-related files of the Nazi Party and its component organizations. Marwell returned to the US in 1994 to become the Executive Director of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency established to identify, locate, and make available to the public all records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. Following this service, he became the Associate Museum Director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing key museum departments (exhibitions, collections, archives, education, international programs, and library). In 2000 Marwell was appointed Director & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City and led that important institution for fifteen years, before stepping down at the end of 2015. In addition to serving on the Board of FASPE, Marwell is the President of the Leo Baeck Institute New York|Berlin. His book about Josef Mengele, Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death,” was published by WW Norton & Company in January 2020. Martine Powers, FASPE Fellow Journalism '14; The Washington Post Martine Powers is the senior host of “Post Reports,” The Washington Post's flagship daily news podcast. Since launching the show in December 2018, Powers and the “Post Reports” team have grown a massive audience of loyal listeners, and their work has been recognized by the Peabody Awards, the Online News Association, the Webbys, and the National Association of Black Journalists. Powers joined The Post in 2016, starting out as a reporter on the Metro Desk before transitioning to audio. She has worked at the Boston Globe and Politico. She’s a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and was a Fulbright fellow in Trinidad & Tobago.

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