Lectures

Lectured at Stanford University (Palo Alto, Ca), U.C.L.A. Berkeley, the Commonwealth Club, the American Jewish Committee (San Francisco), Hadassah, ORT, Brandeis Alumni (Arizona), the Holocaust Museum of San Francisco, various Jewish Community Centers, synagogues (including New Mexico, Redwood City, Belmont), U.S. Consulate General (Shanghai), Lyceum University (Manila), Northridge University, California, University of Denver, Judaic Studies Center (Shanghai), Skt. Augustin (Germany), and many other cultural centers in Asia and Europe.

Subjects include: Jews in Kaifeng, Jews in Shanghai, Russian Jewish Community in Shanghai, White Russians in Shanghai, Sefardi Community in Shanghai, World War II refugees in Shanghai, International Community in Shanghai, The Chinese and the Jews, Kaifeng , among other subjects.

Seminars

Shanghai (China) 'Jews in Shanghai'‚ Seminar, April 1994, upon the invitation of the Shanghai Municipality Foreign Affairs Section and the Center for Judaic Studies.

Salzburg (Austria) 'Jews in Shanghai'‚ Seminar, May 1995, upon the invitation of the Austrian Government and the Salzburg University.

St. Augustin (Germany) 'From Kaifeng to Shanghai' Seminar, September 1997 organised by Monumenta Serica.

Long Island, N.Y., March 6-9, 1998 'The 29th Annual Scholars‚ Conference on the 'Holocaust and the Churches; The Burdens of History; Post Holocaust Generations in Dialogue'.

Videos and Files Four-hour video interview in the Holocaust Center of San Francisco.

Exil Shanghai Film by famous German film-maker, Ulrike Ottinger, which premiered at the International Berlin Film Festival (Feb.18, 1997). Invited to Berlin by Festival organizers. Selected 'Best Movie Documentary' by the media. Krasno's interview featured in the entire first hour of the four-hour film.

Film later screened at the San Francisco's International Jewish Film Festival (April/May 1997), where it received the Golden Gate Award. Also screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival (July 1997) and later in numerous cities around the world.

Sanctuary Shanghai: Chen Yifei, world-known Chinese artist and documentary film-maker invited Krasno to participate in two films: one for television and one for movie theaters. (Spring 1998). The TV film titled Sanctuary Shanghai, was broadcast on the most popular Chinese TV channel on August 21, 1998. The movie film was screened in China and premiered in San Francisco on November 17, 1999.

Canadian Film, Legendary Sin Cities: Berlin, Paris, Shanghai (Paradigm Films, Toronto, Canada). First screening: Feb. 15, 2005 by Canadian Broadcasting Corp (Toronto}. Later broadcast in Australia and other parts of the world.

KMVT : "Cronaca" (Mountain View, Los Altos and Cupertino) 25 minute interview with Rena Krasno, broadcast during four consecutive Tuesday nights in April 2005.