The FASPE Talkback Series at Here There Are Blueberries
Miami New Drama and Tectonic Theater Project have partnered with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), the production’s Content & Conversation Partner, to curate a series of post-show discussions with leading ethicists and scholars to discuss the complex issues suggested by the play—and consider their relevance for today.
These post-performance talkbacks take place in the theater at the dates below, and are free and open to the public.
Talkback Schedule
Thursday, December 4, 2025, After The 7:30 pm Performance
Transformation of Norms and Complicity as the New Normal
The play opens a window into the norms of Nazi perpetrators and complicit professionals. In the 1930s and 1940s, German society experienced a gradual, comprehensive, ever-accelerating transformation of its system of ethical and moral values among doctors, lawyers, accountants, and more. Their role is central to the play, and raises pressing questions about contemporary professional ethics.
Featuring Isaac Todd (2019 FASPE Business Fellow), Chief Legal Officer, Auramet International and Thorsten Wagner, Principal Scholar, FASPE.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 After The 2:00 pm Performance
Why Study the Holocaust?
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago; we have seen genocides since 1945. Why do we continue to study the Holocaust; why does the Holocaust remain so much a part of contemporary pedagogy, literature, ethics and more? What is the role of Holocaust study in a post-survivor world?
Featuring Cristofer Burger, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Miami, Florida, and Thorsten Wagner, Principal Scholar, FASPE, and Stephanie Sylvere Rosen, Co-Founder 3GMiami.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 After The 7:30 pm Performance
The Sins of Our Fathers
Could the Kommandant of Auschwitz have been a good father? How can seemingly normal people commit horrific acts during weekdays and enjoy family and professional relaxation on weekends? This discussion asks not only how those “heirs” are to think about the sins of their fathers, but how we are to think of the perpetrators, themselves, in their normal lives as parents, as husbands and children. Is it possible to compartmentalize criminal behavior from “normal” lives?
Featuring David Goldman, Chairman, FASPE, and Jonathan Lee Walton, President, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 After The 2:00 pm Performance
Complicity and Action
The play invites consideration of what constitutes complicity and how one avoids being complicit. It also suggests a discussion about the ethical requirement for conscious and intentional action, not mere silence, as the alternative to complicity.
Featuring David Goldman, Chairman, FASPE, and Jeremy Heimans, Co-Founder and Chairman, Purpose.
ABOUT FASPE: FASPE challenges its professionals to recognize and exercise their ethical and leadership responsibilities. FASPE’s distinctive approach is to examine the roles and behavior of individual professionals in Germany and elsewhere between 1933 and 1945 as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today.
Each year, FASPE awards 80 to 90 Fellowships to graduate students and early-career professionals in Business, Clergy, Design & Technology, Journalism, Law, and Medicine. The Fellowships begin with intense study in Germany and Poland, where FASPE takes advantage of the urgency created by the power of place to translate the history into the present. Beyond its signature Fellowship program, FASPE utilizes its distinct methodology in ethics training workshops for practicing professionals in organizations across business sectors, in public writings and lectures, and in a condensed European study trip for practicing professionals.
FASPE has been a content and conversation partner to the Tectonic artistic team throughout the development of Here There Are Blueberries, providing historical context and curating engagement events for audiences.
Meet The Distinguished Talkback Panelists
Christofer Burger
Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Miami, Fl (USA)
Christofer Burger is the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Miami. A career diplomat since 2004, he has held key roles in Berlin, Washington, and across the Middle East and Latin America, including serving as Spokesperson of the Federal Foreign Office from 2021 to 2023. He holds an M.A. in Islamic Studies and Economics from Freie Universität Berlin and speaks English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
David Goldman
Chairman
FASPE
David Goldman is the founder and Chairman of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), a nonprofit whose mission is to promote ethical leadership and responsibility among professionals–those with the authority to impact all segments of society.
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 and was formerly on the Board of Directors of the Yale Law School Fund.
David is a graduate of Washington University (BA, 1973) and Yale Law School (JD, 1976).
Jeremy Heimans
Chairman and Co-Founder
Purpose
Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and Chairman of Purpose, a Public Benefit Corporation that builds and supports movements for an open, just, and habitable world. He also co-founded GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia’s parties combined, and Avaaz, the world’s largest online citizens’ movement with over 70 million members.
Heimans is co-author of the international bestseller New Power, described by The New York Times’ David Brooks as “the best window I’ve seen into this new world” and shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. His TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business and recipient of the Ford Foundation’s Visionary Award, he has spoken at Davos, TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the UN, and Chatham House. The proud son of two first-generation immigrants to Australia, Jeremy was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney. He lives in New York.
David Luban
Distinguished University Professor
Georgetown Law
Law Faculty Member
FASPE
David Luban is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown Law, with a joint appointment in Georgetown’s philosophy department. 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. 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, the New York State Bar Association, and the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.
Isaac Todd
Chief Legal Officer
Auramet International
2019 FASPE Business Fellow
Isaac Todd is the Chief Legal Officer of Auramet International, a physical metals merchant and investment and advisory firm focused on the precious and battery metals value chains.
Prior to Auramet, Isaac was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, and corporate governance matters. He also served as a U.S. Army officer, specializing in reconnaissance and counter-terrorism.
Isaac is a member of the board of directors of Human Rights First and regularly volunteers pro bono legal services and serves on various philanthropic committees. He is passionate about foreign affairs, the arts, education, and strengthening democratic institutions at home and abroad.
Isaac holds a J.D. from Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and a B.Sci. from Cornell University. He is admitted to practice law in New York State.
Thorsten Wagner
Principal Scholar
FASPE
Thorsten Wagner is the Principal Scholar at FASPE and has been involved with the organization since its beginnings in 2009. He is a German historian, who grew up in Denmark and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and his graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Freie Universität Berlin, earning his MA from the TU Berlin in 1998. Living in Berlin for about two decades, Thorsten worked as a research fellow at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and started teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2010-2019, he held a permanent position as Associate Professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad/University of Copenhagen.
Having authored numerous academic publications in the fields of Modern German and European Jewish History, antisemitism, Holocaust studies, cultures of memory, and Israeli history and society, he also worked as the historical consultant for the acclaimed documentary “Germans and Jews”, dealing with contemporary Germany, its relationship to its Nazi past and the reemergence of Jewish life.
Jonathan Lee Walton
President, Princeton Theological Seminary
Jonathan Lee Walton became president of Princeton Theological Seminary in 2023. Dr. Walton is trained as a social ethicist whose scholarship focuses on the intersection of evangelical Christianity, mass media, and political culture. He is the author of two books: Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (NYU Press, 2009) and A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World (Westminster John Knox Press, 2018).
Walton has published widely across various academic journals, books, magazines, and newspapers. His insights have been featured in the New York Times, CNN, Time Magazine, and PBS. Walton is a member of the Humanities Advancement Council at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Walton earned his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Divinity degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to his appointment at Princeton Theological Seminary, he served as dean of Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity where he occupied the Presidential Chair in Religion & Society, and as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University.
Stephanie Sylvere Rosen
Co-Founder 3GMiami
Stephanie is the co-founder of 3GMiami, a group of descendants of Holocaust survivors who share their families’ stories with students and the community. Since inception five years ago 3GMiami has connected with over 22k students. She is also a professional interviewer and moderator, and works as part of the leasing and acquisitions team for a Spanish commercial real estate firm. Stephanie has held leadership roles across Miami’s cultural and civic organizations. She grew up in Montreal, attended McGill and NYU, and now lives in Miami Beach with her husband and has three adult children.
Here There Are Blueberries
Miami New Drama / Tectonic Theater Project
By Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
Conceived & Directed By Moisés Kaufman
On Stage Through December 14
In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unravel the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon makes headlines and ignites a debate that reverberates far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.
