Lois mémorielles : l'indignation sélective de Pierre Nora
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
CLA Announces Search for New CHGS Director
Dear Friends and Supporters-
I will be stepping down as director of CHGS at the end of this academic year, as planned when I accepted the two-year position in June 2010. I am delighted to announce that the College of Liberal Arts has decided to convene a search for a new permanent director.
Being the director of CHGS has been a very rewarding experience for me. I would like to thank the staff of CHGS for all of their hard work in helping me further the mission of the Center. To our campus and community partners, thank you for all your warm support during my tenure.
I am convinced that CHGS will benefit immensely from having a permanent director who can carry forth the vision of founding director Stephen Feinstein. In the meantime, CHGS will continue its work in educating all sectors of society about the Holocaust and other genocides; it is my hope that you will continue to support us and the work we do. Please consult our website for upcoming programming and the latest resources and news.
I look forward to seeing you throughout the rest of the academic school year.
Bruno Chaouat
Posting: Director Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
I will be stepping down as director of CHGS at the end of this academic year, as planned when I accepted the two-year position in June 2010. I am delighted to announce that the College of Liberal Arts has decided to convene a search for a new permanent director.
Being the director of CHGS has been a very rewarding experience for me. I would like to thank the staff of CHGS for all of their hard work in helping me further the mission of the Center. To our campus and community partners, thank you for all your warm support during my tenure.
I am convinced that CHGS will benefit immensely from having a permanent director who can carry forth the vision of founding director Stephen Feinstein. In the meantime, CHGS will continue its work in educating all sectors of society about the Holocaust and other genocides; it is my hope that you will continue to support us and the work we do. Please consult our website for upcoming programming and the latest resources and news.
I look forward to seeing you throughout the rest of the academic school year.
Bruno Chaouat
Posting: Director Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies Berlin, Humboldt University
The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies, based at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, is open to international applications for the 2012 summer session (July 5 to August 17). The application deadline is January 15, 2012.
LBSU is accredited through the ECTS system; upon full completion of the program a student is eligible for 12 credit points.
The demanding academic program is composed of three modules dealing with Jewish history in Germany up to and after the Holocaust, as well as contemporary Jewish life in Germany. Morning lectures are augmented by afternoon excursions as well as meetings with local Jewish leaders and guest speakers from the world of art, media, politics and religion. In addition, LBSU offers the opportunity for students to network, exchange ideas with peers and to learn about modern Germany's confrontation with the Holocaust. In 2011, the program had 24 students with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, coming from the USA, Canada, Israel, Germany, Poland, Romania and Turkey.
The cost for one student to attend the six-week program, including tuition, lodging and excursions, is 2,500 Euro (currently $3,378). We may have partial scholarships available; please ask.
Applicants must send the following as PDF files to info@lbsu.de by Jan. 15, 2012:
1) A brief curriculum vitae (name, age, citizenship, field of study, home university, description of previous experiences, internships, etc.)
2) A personal statement and letter of purpose
3) For non-native speakers of English, a statement from a professor or instructor attesting to your facility to read, speak and write in English
4) A letter of reference sent directly to LBSU by your academic advisor / professor as an attachment via e-mail
For more information, see our website (we are updating it for 2012). And don't hesitate to contact our academic director, Toby Axelrod, with questions about the program and your application: info@lbsu.de
All applicants will be notified by March 15, 2012.
LBSU is accredited through the ECTS system; upon full completion of the program a student is eligible for 12 credit points.
The demanding academic program is composed of three modules dealing with Jewish history in Germany up to and after the Holocaust, as well as contemporary Jewish life in Germany. Morning lectures are augmented by afternoon excursions as well as meetings with local Jewish leaders and guest speakers from the world of art, media, politics and religion. In addition, LBSU offers the opportunity for students to network, exchange ideas with peers and to learn about modern Germany's confrontation with the Holocaust. In 2011, the program had 24 students with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, coming from the USA, Canada, Israel, Germany, Poland, Romania and Turkey.
The cost for one student to attend the six-week program, including tuition, lodging and excursions, is 2,500 Euro (currently $3,378). We may have partial scholarships available; please ask.
Applicants must send the following as PDF files to info@lbsu.de by Jan. 15, 2012:
1) A brief curriculum vitae (name, age, citizenship, field of study, home university, description of previous experiences, internships, etc.)
2) A personal statement and letter of purpose
3) For non-native speakers of English, a statement from a professor or instructor attesting to your facility to read, speak and write in English
4) A letter of reference sent directly to LBSU by your academic advisor / professor as an attachment via e-mail
For more information, see our website (we are updating it for 2012). And don't hesitate to contact our academic director, Toby Axelrod, with questions about the program and your application: info@lbsu.de
All applicants will be notified by March 15, 2012.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Commemorating Controversy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
Speaker Series
January 4,5,10,17,24,26, 2012
4:00-5:30pm
Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College campus.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Jan 4
Dr. John Peacock
"War of Words: Writings by Dakota People In Their Own Language and Later in English During and After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862."
Dr. John Peacock is Rinehart Critic-in-Residence and Professor of Language, Literature, and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He is a former Wesleyan University Mellon Fellow, University of Antwerp Fulbright Lecturer, and grantee of the American Philosophical Society and the Montgomery Council Maryland Arts and Humanities Council. An enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation in Fort Totten, North Dakota, his writing in English and the endangered Dakota language has been exhibited at the Minnesota History Center and published in American Indian Quarterly and in Studies in American Indian Literatures.
Jan. 5
Glenn Wasicuna
"A Dakota Way of Life"
Glen Wasicuna is the Director of Dakota Studies, Tiospa Zina Tribal School for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Glenn has taught the Dakota language at tribal colleges, Gustavus Adolphus College, and served as a consultant to the University of Minnesota on the Dakota language. He was the Editor/Publisher of The Dakota Times, a Canadian newspaper, for more than a dozen years. He will discuss every day Dakota culture, customs, and world view.
Jan. 10
Dr. Gary Clayton Anderson
"The Dakota War Trials: Travesty of Justice or Reasonable Retribution."
Gary Clayton Anderson is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is considered the foremost historian on the US-Dakota War. His books include The Indian Southwest 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood , Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862, and Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Professor Anderson is currently working on a book on Indians and the Great Plains Wars, 1830-1890.
Jan.17
Thomas Maltman
"Based on a True Story: Researching a Controversial History to Create Fiction"
Thomas Maltman's essays, poetry, and fiction have recently been published in Georgetown Review, Great River Review, and Main Channel Voices, among other journals. He has a BA from Eastern Washington University and an MFA from Minnesota State University/Mankato. His debut novel, The Night Birds, was released by Soho Press in August of 2008 and won an Alex Award from the American Library Association. He is currently the Visiting Artist in Creative Writing at Normandale Community College. Thomas Maltman's forthcoming second novel, Little Wolves, is a contemporary mystery that takes place in the same prairie country as The Night Birds.
Jan. 24
Corinne Marz
"From the Acton Incident to the Internment Camp:Examining the aftermath in light of the war and its beginnings"
Researcher and author Corinne Monjeau-Marz has devoted her latest efforts to exploring the extraordinarily challenging and culturally catastrophic transition the Dakota people experienced during the time of early European settlement in Minnesota. Marz will share her recent research and discuss her work on "Alexander Ramsey's Words of War" from the first issue of Minnesota's Heritage magazine. She will also discuss her book, The Dakota Indian Internment at Fort Snelling, 1862-1864, as well as her contributions to Trail of Tears: Minnesota's Dakota Indian Exile Begins.
Jan. 26
Dr. Gwen Westerman-Wasicuna
"We Are Still Here"
Dr. Westerman serves as the Director of the Native American Literature Symposium, is the recipient of several prestigious grants, and has published widely on contemporary American Indian literature. She is a poet and artist and has published her poetry in "Yellow Medicine Review," "Water-Stone Review," and other journals; she has also displayed her quilts in many venues. Gwen Westerman-Wasicuna is an English professor at Minnesota State University-Mankato specializing in multi-cultural and Native American literature. Her lecture will focus on the lives of modern Dakota and their special place in Minnesota today.
For more information visit the Commemorating Controversy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Speaker Series web page.
For documents, photos and other resources about the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 please visit the CHGS web page.
January 4,5,10,17,24,26, 2012
4:00-5:30pm
Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College campus.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Jan 4
Dr. John Peacock
"War of Words: Writings by Dakota People In Their Own Language and Later in English During and After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862."
Dr. John Peacock is Rinehart Critic-in-Residence and Professor of Language, Literature, and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He is a former Wesleyan University Mellon Fellow, University of Antwerp Fulbright Lecturer, and grantee of the American Philosophical Society and the Montgomery Council Maryland Arts and Humanities Council. An enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation in Fort Totten, North Dakota, his writing in English and the endangered Dakota language has been exhibited at the Minnesota History Center and published in American Indian Quarterly and in Studies in American Indian Literatures.
Jan. 5
Glenn Wasicuna
"A Dakota Way of Life"
Glen Wasicuna is the Director of Dakota Studies, Tiospa Zina Tribal School for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Glenn has taught the Dakota language at tribal colleges, Gustavus Adolphus College, and served as a consultant to the University of Minnesota on the Dakota language. He was the Editor/Publisher of The Dakota Times, a Canadian newspaper, for more than a dozen years. He will discuss every day Dakota culture, customs, and world view.
Jan. 10
Dr. Gary Clayton Anderson
"The Dakota War Trials: Travesty of Justice or Reasonable Retribution."
Gary Clayton Anderson is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is considered the foremost historian on the US-Dakota War. His books include The Indian Southwest 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood , Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862, and Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Professor Anderson is currently working on a book on Indians and the Great Plains Wars, 1830-1890.
Jan.17
Thomas Maltman
"Based on a True Story: Researching a Controversial History to Create Fiction"
Thomas Maltman's essays, poetry, and fiction have recently been published in Georgetown Review, Great River Review, and Main Channel Voices, among other journals. He has a BA from Eastern Washington University and an MFA from Minnesota State University/Mankato. His debut novel, The Night Birds, was released by Soho Press in August of 2008 and won an Alex Award from the American Library Association. He is currently the Visiting Artist in Creative Writing at Normandale Community College. Thomas Maltman's forthcoming second novel, Little Wolves, is a contemporary mystery that takes place in the same prairie country as The Night Birds.
Jan. 24
Corinne Marz
"From the Acton Incident to the Internment Camp:Examining the aftermath in light of the war and its beginnings"
Researcher and author Corinne Monjeau-Marz has devoted her latest efforts to exploring the extraordinarily challenging and culturally catastrophic transition the Dakota people experienced during the time of early European settlement in Minnesota. Marz will share her recent research and discuss her work on "Alexander Ramsey's Words of War" from the first issue of Minnesota's Heritage magazine. She will also discuss her book, The Dakota Indian Internment at Fort Snelling, 1862-1864, as well as her contributions to Trail of Tears: Minnesota's Dakota Indian Exile Begins.
Jan. 26
Dr. Gwen Westerman-Wasicuna
"We Are Still Here"
Dr. Westerman serves as the Director of the Native American Literature Symposium, is the recipient of several prestigious grants, and has published widely on contemporary American Indian literature. She is a poet and artist and has published her poetry in "Yellow Medicine Review," "Water-Stone Review," and other journals; she has also displayed her quilts in many venues. Gwen Westerman-Wasicuna is an English professor at Minnesota State University-Mankato specializing in multi-cultural and Native American literature. Her lecture will focus on the lives of modern Dakota and their special place in Minnesota today.
For more information visit the Commemorating Controversy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Speaker Series web page.
For documents, photos and other resources about the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 please visit the CHGS web page.
Deborah Lipstadt Lecture now available on CHGS Youtube Channel
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and author of internationally acclaimed books related to the Holocaust spoke on campus on Wednesday night, October 26 about Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism and her recent critically acclaimed book The Eichmann Trial.
You can view the lecture by clicking here.
An audio interview with Dr. Lipstadt about Holocaust Denial and the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann Trial on Access Minnesota.
You can view the lecture by clicking here.
An audio interview with Dr. Lipstadt about Holocaust Denial and the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann Trial on Access Minnesota.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Dispute between Watenpaugh and Turkish-American group
As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Dr. Keith Watenpaugh, associate professor of religious studies at the University of California at Davis, has angered a Turkish-American group who reacted to an article about the historian's research that was published in the Davis alumni magazine by writing letters to university officials.
Dr. Watenpaugh gave a lecture sponsored by CHGS in April 2011. To watch a video of his talk, click here.
Dr. Watenpaugh gave a lecture sponsored by CHGS in April 2011. To watch a video of his talk, click here.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Special Film Screening- "As Seen Through These Eyes"
Sunday, December 4, 2:00 pm
Sabes Jewish Community Center
Directed by Hilary Helstein and narrated by Maya Angelou, As Seen Through These Eyes is a window into the surviving art and artists of the Holocaust. The film offers an incredible look at humanity's survival mechanism, regardless of race or religion. The eyes of the witnesses reveal the profound need to communicate at any cost
As Seen Through These Eyes features interviews with survivors who have given us something that history couldn't: a journal of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who through the very act of creating, risked their lives by doing what they were forbidden to do.
Introductory remarks by Jodi Elowitz,CHGS. Following the film, please join us for a gallery tour of the companion exhibition Art Survives: Expressions From the Holocaust.
Tickets: $10 ($8 Sabes JCC Premium and Community Members, Students)
To reserve tickets, contact 952-381-3499 or email at tickets@sabesjcc.org.
For more on Holocaust art visit CHGS Virtual Museum.
Sabes Jewish Community Center
Directed by Hilary Helstein and narrated by Maya Angelou, As Seen Through These Eyes is a window into the surviving art and artists of the Holocaust. The film offers an incredible look at humanity's survival mechanism, regardless of race or religion. The eyes of the witnesses reveal the profound need to communicate at any cost
As Seen Through These Eyes features interviews with survivors who have given us something that history couldn't: a journal of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who through the very act of creating, risked their lives by doing what they were forbidden to do.
Introductory remarks by Jodi Elowitz,CHGS. Following the film, please join us for a gallery tour of the companion exhibition Art Survives: Expressions From the Holocaust.
Tickets: $10 ($8 Sabes JCC Premium and Community Members, Students)
To reserve tickets, contact 952-381-3499 or email at tickets@sabesjcc.org.
For more on Holocaust art visit CHGS Virtual Museum.
Friday, December 2, 2011
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