[lbo-talk] A new approach to the Holocaust?

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Sun Nov 2 13:29:53 PST 2003


From the Daily Headlines e-mail of the University of Arkansas:

2. THE HOLOCAUST REMEMBERED: MORAL BANKRUPTCY

The Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee invites educators and students to their annual conference to be held November 14 at the Jones Center in Springdale. This year's theme is The Holocaust Remembered: Moral Bankruptcy. The deadline for registration is November 3, and the fee is $25, which includes lunch and snacks.

Each year the committee presents a conference to prepare teachers and students to more fully understand the impact of the Holocaust and apply it to educational curriculum in our schools. This year, national experts will examine how government-sponsored theft and economic policies caused the holocaust tragedy in Nazi Germany and occupied territories. The Jones Center is located at 22 W. Emma Ave., Springdale. If you are interested in attending please contact Barry Brown (575-2975; 750-4004; bbrown at uark.edu).

Here's a fuller announcement that seems somewhat unlike the first:

http://list.k12.ar.us/pipermail/acss/2003-October/002107.html

ARKANSAS HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE (REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 3, 2003) THE ECONOMICS of the HOLOCAUST: MORAL BANKRUPTCY

WHEN: Friday, November 14, 2003 - 8:30-4:30 WHERE: The Jones Center for Families - Springdale, AR Cost: Teachers - $25.00 per participant (Includes Lunch) Students - $15.00 per participant (Includes Lunch) REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 3, 2003 Keynote Presenter: Severin Hochberg For additional information call: Grace Donoho at (479) 756-8090, ext. 210 or mailto:gdonoho at jcf.jonesnet.org

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Severin Hochberg is a historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem.

LISA ARMSTRONG Lisa Armstrong teaches English and Holocaust literature at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kansas, and holds a master's degree in education. She is a Mandel Fellow for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education's Teaching Cadre. Lisa has presented workshops on teaching Holocaust literature at national NCTE conferences and the USHMM's Belfer I and II conferences. As a Mandel Advanced Funding Grant recipient, she co-compiled the Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust, Illustrated for Presentation and Study CD and website.

SHAUNA COPELAND Shauna Copeland is a senior Four-Year Honors Scholar at the University of Arkansas. She was awarded a SILO Undergraduate Research Grant to fund research for her Honors thesis concerning women in the Holocaust, which is being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Mark Cory. She presented a paper on this topic titled "Double Victims: Women in Holocaust Literature" at the Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference, hosted by Henderson State University last spring. She was also awarded a Sturgis Honors Study Abroad Grant by Fulbright College, which she used to continue her research on the Holocaust in Europe last summer. Shauna will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and European Studies this December

DR. FRIEDLANDER Professor Friedlander served on the project of the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association and the National Archives, taught history at the Louisiana State University in New Orleans, McMaster University in Canada, the University of Missouri in St. Louis, the City College of New York. From 1975 to 2001, he was professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Professor Friedlander's research has focused on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He co-edited The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy, and Genocide (1980), the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual (1984-1990), and the 26 volume documentary series Archives of the Holocaust (1988-93). He also published numerous articles on various aspects of the Holocaust. His research has also focused on the legal implications of postwar trials. His recent study, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution won the Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1996, and the DAAD Book Prize of the German Studies Association, 1997. Professor Friedlander received his B.A. (1953) in history from Temple University, his M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1968) in modern German history from the University of Pennsylvania.



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