The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life will host the following events on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus. Refreshments will be served.

Holocaust Memorial Day

Monday, April 24; 4-5:30 p.m.

Woodland Commons

This year, the Holocaust Memorial Day lecture will be on the topic of changing Catholic-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust.

Dr. Arthur Urbano, from Providence College's theology department, will present "A Hard Look in the Mirror: Catholic self-reflection after the Holocaust."

In 2015,  the Catholic Church and much of the Jewish world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate (known in English as the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions). This document marked the church’s official entrance into interreligious dialogue and is especially significant for its radical re-orientation and re-definition of the Christian-Jewish relationship in the context of European anti-Semitism and in the wake of the Holocaust.

This program is sponsored by the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Catholic Campus Ministries, and the Center for Jewish Culture all at UMass Dartmouth. Park in lot 10.

The promises of religious environmentalism

Tuesday, April 25; 2 p.m.

Main Auditorium

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Philosophy Professor Roger Gottlieb will present. Park in lot 4.

Jewish culture book club

Monday, May 1; noon

Campus Center conference room

The book club will discuss "Judas," by Amos Oz. Head to the second floor of the campus center. Park in lot 4.

Survival and Memory

Monday, May 1, 5 p.m.

Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives

Brazilian writer Noemi Jaffee will present "What to Remember and What to Forget, three generations of women respond to the Holocaust."

Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and the Center for Jewish Culture with the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. Park in lot 13.