Friday, September 23 - Friday, December 30, 2011
Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library
210 Rapson Hall
Artist Joyce Ellen Weinstein
Wooden synagogues that were constructed from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century once dotted the landscape of Lithuania as well as Western Europe. Today only 23 remain in the world, eight in Lithuania. Based on visits to the remote villages in Lithuania and conversing with the villagers who still reside there, artist Joyce Ellen Weinstein's photographs, paintings, and artist books illustrate the history, documentation, and memories of these old world structures.
Exhibit Coordinator
Deborah Ultan Boudewyns
This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Conference My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights Featuring a Lecture by Philip Gourevitch
Monday, October 10, 2011
Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union
Conference 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Esther Freier Lecture by Philip Gourevitch 7:30 p.m.
"My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights" will be held on Monday, October 10, 2011, at the University of Minnesota to bring together a diverse group of writers, scholars, journalists, field workers, psychologists and others concerned with telling the stories of human rights abuses, genocide and atrocity across a historical and contemporary range of cultures and circumstances. In broad terms, the conference links literary work (specifically, memoir and the first person voice) with human rights testimony, scholarship and field work.
Co-hosted by the Human Rights Program, and the Creative Writing Program of the University of Minnesota.
"Salvage: Writing About Aftermaths from Rwanda to Abu Ghraib and Beyond"
Philip Gourevitch's harrowing nonfiction account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, won the 1998 National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long-time staff writer for The New Yorker has also published The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2008) and A Cold Case (2001). Gourevitch edited The Paris Review from 2005 to 2010.
Free & open to the public. Sponsored by the Esther Freier Endowed Lectures in Literature and the one-day conference "My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights."
Sponsored by the Human rights Program and the Department of English
Co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
For more information and the complete schedule please click here.
Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union
Conference 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Esther Freier Lecture by Philip Gourevitch 7:30 p.m.
"My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights" will be held on Monday, October 10, 2011, at the University of Minnesota to bring together a diverse group of writers, scholars, journalists, field workers, psychologists and others concerned with telling the stories of human rights abuses, genocide and atrocity across a historical and contemporary range of cultures and circumstances. In broad terms, the conference links literary work (specifically, memoir and the first person voice) with human rights testimony, scholarship and field work.
Co-hosted by the Human Rights Program, and the Creative Writing Program of the University of Minnesota.
"Salvage: Writing About Aftermaths from Rwanda to Abu Ghraib and Beyond"
Philip Gourevitch's harrowing nonfiction account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, won the 1998 National Book Critics' Circle Award. The long-time staff writer for The New Yorker has also published The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2008) and A Cold Case (2001). Gourevitch edited The Paris Review from 2005 to 2010.
Free & open to the public. Sponsored by the Esther Freier Endowed Lectures in Literature and the one-day conference "My Letter to the World: Narrating Human Rights."
Sponsored by the Human rights Program and the Department of English
Co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
For more information and the complete schedule please click here.
Friday, September 9, 2011
New MA program in Holocaust Studies
The University of Haifa is pleased to announce the opening of the MA program in Holocaust Studies that will be taught in English, for 2012-2013 academic year.
This is the only graduate program in Holocaust Studies that is taught in Israel and is unique in its multidisciplinary curriculum and approach. It is dedicated to the creation and nurturing of a new generation of Holocaust researchers. Its aim is to provide them with a well rounded curriculum from a wide variety of disciplines and subjects (history, social psychology, anthropology, genocide and international law, literature and more), diverse methodologies and essential languages.
The program is an international one, gathering students from all over the world, for 3 semesters in Israel. Our collaborations with Holocaust archives in Israel, Germany and Poland offer the students the opportunity visit those archives in the framework of study tours, to conduct research based on primary sources and to acquire expertise in writing research papers.
The program is headed by Prof. Arieh J. Kochavi, head of the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, a prolific and prominent scholar of World War II, diplomatic history of the 20th century, refugees and displaced persons in Europe and prisoners of war.
For more information please read the attached file.
PIRSu (1).pdf
This is the only graduate program in Holocaust Studies that is taught in Israel and is unique in its multidisciplinary curriculum and approach. It is dedicated to the creation and nurturing of a new generation of Holocaust researchers. Its aim is to provide them with a well rounded curriculum from a wide variety of disciplines and subjects (history, social psychology, anthropology, genocide and international law, literature and more), diverse methodologies and essential languages.
The program is an international one, gathering students from all over the world, for 3 semesters in Israel. Our collaborations with Holocaust archives in Israel, Germany and Poland offer the students the opportunity visit those archives in the framework of study tours, to conduct research based on primary sources and to acquire expertise in writing research papers.
The program is headed by Prof. Arieh J. Kochavi, head of the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, a prolific and prominent scholar of World War II, diplomatic history of the 20th century, refugees and displaced persons in Europe and prisoners of war.
For more information please read the attached file.
PIRSu (1).pdf
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Lucien Philipe Moretti Lithographs on display at St. Paul Church
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul is displaying THE ART OF LUCIEN MORETTI: OCCUPATION OF PARIS in September as part of "Blessed are the Peace-Makers" month.
This series relates to the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II. Some scenes are lyrical, while others focus on the chaos of war and the victimization of the Jews.
The 13 works are on loan from CHGS and are on view at the Gloria Dei Art Gallery.
For more information on the exhibition please click here or contact Susan Gangl at 651-699-5355.
For more on CHGS art exhibitions for loan or to rent please visit CHGS Art for Loan or Rent page.
This series relates to the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II. Some scenes are lyrical, while others focus on the chaos of war and the victimization of the Jews.
The 13 works are on loan from CHGS and are on view at the Gloria Dei Art Gallery.
For more information on the exhibition please click here or contact Susan Gangl at 651-699-5355.
For more on CHGS art exhibitions for loan or to rent please visit CHGS Art for Loan or Rent page.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Internships now available at the Galicia Jewish Museum
The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland is looking for interns.
For more information please read the attached file.
Galicia Jewish Museum internship programme.pdf
For more information please read the attached file.
Galicia Jewish Museum internship programme.pdf
Thursday, September 1, 2011
New criticisms imply that Jews and Israel are manipulating the Holocaust for political advantage
Michigan professor to discuss 'latest thing' in anti-Semitism
American Jewish World article featuring Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm, Jr.
Brahm's lecture, "Holocaust Envy & "Enjoyment" of the Holocaust
The "latest Thing" in anti-Semitism will take place on campus. 9-15-2011.
American Jewish World article featuring Dr. Gabriel Noah Brahm, Jr.
Brahm's lecture, "Holocaust Envy & "Enjoyment" of the Holocaust
The "latest Thing" in anti-Semitism will take place on campus. 9-15-2011.
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