Content & Conversation Partnership with Tectonic Theater Project
FASPE has been a thought-partner to the artistic team throughout the development of Here There Are Blueberries, facilitating access to European institutions and archives, providing historical context, and curating conversations between audiences, scholars and ethicists. In 2023, Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich received the FASPE Award for Ethical Leadership in recognition of their commitment to exploring the line between complacency, complicity, and culpability through their art.
This year, FASPE has partnered with Tectonic Theater Project to curate post-show discussions following performances of Here There Are Blueberries during the play's national tour, including at McCarter Theater in Princeton, the Wallis in Beverly Hills, Berkeley Rep, Miami New Drama, Seattle Rep, and Stratford East in London. Blueberries was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. Now, to Broadway: November 2, 2026, through January 10, 2027.
Upcoming Talkbacks
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 — 7:00 PM
POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY
DAVID GOLDMAN with AMBASSADOR SAMANTHA POWER
What happens to individual conscience inside institutions of enormous power? David Goldman, founder and chair of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), sits down with Samantha Power—former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of USAID, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the world’s leading voices on human rights. Drawing on decades of work inside and outside government trying to mobilize action, Power examines one of the most urgent questions raised by Here There Are Blueberries: How do ordinary people navigate the distance between bystanding and upstanding—and how can we overcome willful blindness and a creeping habituation to injustice?
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 — 7:00 PM
FAITH, CONSCIENCE & COMPLICITY
DAVID GOLDMAN with JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE and REV. DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II
When injustice is in plain sight, is standing by a moral choice? FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) founder David Goldman brings together Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II—pastor, civil rights leader, and architect of the contemporary Poor People’s Campaign—and author, pastor, and activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Together, they confront the moral questions that reverberate through Here There Are Blueberries: What does conscience demand of us when we witness injustice? When does silence become complicity? And in moments that test our humanity, is there really such a thing as a bystander?
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 — 7:00 PM
WHY DOES THE HOLOCAUST MATTER TODAY?
DAVID GOLDMAN with CONSUL GENERAL DR. JENS JOKISCH and VARDIT RAVITSKY
As the generation that witnessed the Holocaust passes from living memory, what responsibility (and opportunity) does its history place on us today? And how do we draw contemporary meaning from the Holocaust without distorting its history or instrumentalizing its suffering? David Goldman, Chair of FASPE, leads a conversation about the enduring relevance of—and the risks of universalizing—the Holocaust with Dr. Jens Jokisch, German Consul General in New York, and Vardit Ravitsky, one of the world’s leading bioethicists and President and CEO of The Hastings Center. Together, they bring distinctly different perspectives to a fundamental question: What does the Holocaust ask of us now?
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 — 3:00 PM MATINEE
VICTIMS & PERPETRATORS: THE LEGACY OF TRAUMA
DESCENDANTS GARY KRAMER & TILMAN TAUBE with THORSTEN WAGNER
What happens when history lives inside your own family? Thorsten Wagner, the Principal Scholar of FASPE, leads an extraordinary encounter between two descendants connected to the photographs at the heart of Here There Are Blueberries. Gary Kramer is the grandson of Auschwitz survivor Lili Jacob, whose discovery of an album documenting the arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz became one of the Holocaust’s most important visual records. Tilman Taube’s grandfather, an SS doctor, appears in the Höcker album, which documents the private lives of the SS officers who ran Auschwitz. Wagner himself is the grandson of Ernst Wagner, volunteer member of ethnic German auxiliary troops in occupied Denmark, and of Thomas Thomsen, participating as Wehrmacht conscript in the war of extermination against the Soviet Union. Together, they explore the radically different inheritances carried by the descendants of victims and perpetrators, and what happens when it becomes impossible to look away from the past you inherit.
About FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics)
FASPE’s mission is to promote ethical leadership among professionals. By studying the behavior and motivations of those professionals who, by choice and action, designed, enabled, and executed Nazi policies, FASPE creates a lens for understanding the importance of ethical leadership today.
Founded in 2010, FASPE annually grants fellowships to 85 graduate students and early-career professionals. FASPE has a global community of nearly 1,100 alumni who continue to engage through workshops, virtual programming, writing, lecturing, symposia, and networking opportunities.
FASPE also offers Ethical Leadership Training workshops for organizations across sectors. Learn more at faspe-ethics.org.