Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009
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The Center’s next triennial Holocaust Education Conference, now known as The Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference, will take place at Seton Hill University from Sunday, October 25, 2009 through Tuesday, October 27, 2009.
The Conference will feature prominent international scholars and educators addressing the topic of “Holocaust Education in the 21st Century: Religion and Cultural Perspectives.” Lectures, workshops, film screenings, and presentations will also explore the challenges and opportunities related to interreligious dialogue, the study of recent genocides, and new technologies from a pedagogical perspective.
Michael Berenbaum, director of the Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics at American Jewish University, will serve as keynote speaker. Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, scholar, professor and consultant for the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. “One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story,” a film he co-produced, received an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Cable Ace Award, and “The Last Days,” a feature-length documentary on which he served as historical consultant, also earned an Academy Award. Berenbaum has served on the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, as both project director and Research Institute director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as president and chief executive officer of Stephen Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Berenbaum is also the author and editor of eighteen books and hundreds of scholarly articles.
Other featured speakers for the conference include Victoria Barnett, author and staff director, Committee on Church Relations, U.S. Holocaust Museum, who will speak on interreligious dialogue; Eric Weitz, author, historian and visiting professor at Princeton University, who will speak on recent genocides; and John T. Pawlikowski, O.S.M., Ph.D., professor of social ethics and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at the Catholic Theological Union’s Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Center, who will speak on the Catholic Church and human rights.
The Center invites middle school, high school and college/university educators to submit proposals for presentations. As an added feature of the conference, the NCCHE, in cooperation with Ephraim Kaye, director, Seminars for Educators from Abroad at Yad Vashem, encourages Summer Institute graduates from across North America to participate in the conference.
The Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference Endowment will also underwrite publication of conference proceedings. Presenters will be invited to submit papers for possible publication.
View the Offical Flyer:
Save The Date 3-26-2009.pdf
