Holocaust Memorial Center and Eastern Michigan University to Co-Host Fifth Annual Seminar for Teachers, Aug. 11-15
The theme for this year’s seminar, which is supported by a generous grant from the Claims Conference and takes place at the Holocaust Memorial Center located in Farmington Hills, is “Images of the Holocaust.”
Farmington Hills, MI, June 14, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus and Eastern Michigan University announced their Fifth Annual Summer Teacher Seminar to benefit current and prospective teachers and their students from Aug. 11-15.
The theme for this year’s seminar, which is supported by a generous grant from the Claims Conference and takes place at the Holocaust Memorial Center located at 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills, is “Images of the Holocaust.” Using the latest academic scholarship and best instructional practices to make lessons about the Holocaust understandable and meaningful for students, the seminar is designed to build an instructor’s content base.
Attendees will hear presentations from scholars and survivors examining the Holocaust from the rise of Nazism to the Holocaust deniers of today. Presenters include:
Ramona Caponegro, Ph.D, Eastern Michigan University
*-Assistant Professor of Children’s Literature
*-Field of study focuses on concepts of justice and human rights as well as historical children’s literature and fiction
*-Coordinator of children’s literature program
Robert Franciosi, Ph.D, Grand Valley State University
*-Professor of English and Honors
*-Editor of Elie Wiesel: Conversations
Shelley Perlove, Ph.D, University of Michigan-Dearborn
*-Professor Emerita of Art History
*-Visiting faculty at Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Martin B. Shichtman, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
*-Director of Jewish Studies
*-2006 fellow at Brandeis University’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies
*-2003 participant in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Seminar on Literature and the Holocaust
John Staunton, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
*-Lesson development and research focus
Ken Waltzer, Ph.D., Michigan State University
*-Director of Jewish Studies
*-Research focuses on children in the Buchenwald concentration camp and rescue and survival during the Holocaust
Annette Wannamaker, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
Jamie Wraight, Ph.D., University of Michigan-Dearborn
*-Curator of the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
*-Professor of History
Members of the museum’s Holocaust survivor network also will present.
Participating teachers will be provided access to the vast primary resources from the museum library and archive to aid them in the development of their own classroom lessons. By the end of the weeklong seminar, they will develop a lesson plan to be shared with other participants.
To register for the seminar, please go to http://ep.emich.edu/holocaust and click on the link titled “Holocaust Seminar.” Cost for the event is $100 and includes Michigan SCHEH credit. Three undergraduate or graduate credit hours also are available to participants for an additional fee. All applications are due by Thursday, July 31.
For further information, contact either Sarah Painter at spainter@emich.edu or the Holocaust Memorial Center at education@holocaustcenter.org or 248-553-2400, ext. 113.
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus opened in 1984. Local Holocaust survivors, with community support, founded the museum to teach about the senseless murder of millions, and why everyone must respect and stand up for the rights of others if the world is to prevent future discrimination, hate crime and genocide. As Michigan’s only Holocaust museum, the Holocaust Memorial Center annually touches the lives of more than 85,000 individuals, who leave the museum profoundly affected with a newly acquired sense of history, social responsibility and morality. The Holocaust Memorial Center’s exhibits create a call to action, teaching visitors through the examples of those who risked their lives to save others, and asking its guests to react to contemporary challenges such as racism, intolerance, bullying and prejudice.
The facility is wheelchair accessible and free parking is available at both the North and South entrances.
For more information on the Holocaust Memorial Center, visit www.holocaustcenter.org, or call 248-553-2400.
The theme for this year’s seminar, which is supported by a generous grant from the Claims Conference and takes place at the Holocaust Memorial Center located at 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills, is “Images of the Holocaust.” Using the latest academic scholarship and best instructional practices to make lessons about the Holocaust understandable and meaningful for students, the seminar is designed to build an instructor’s content base.
Attendees will hear presentations from scholars and survivors examining the Holocaust from the rise of Nazism to the Holocaust deniers of today. Presenters include:
Ramona Caponegro, Ph.D, Eastern Michigan University
*-Assistant Professor of Children’s Literature
*-Field of study focuses on concepts of justice and human rights as well as historical children’s literature and fiction
*-Coordinator of children’s literature program
Robert Franciosi, Ph.D, Grand Valley State University
*-Professor of English and Honors
*-Editor of Elie Wiesel: Conversations
Shelley Perlove, Ph.D, University of Michigan-Dearborn
*-Professor Emerita of Art History
*-Visiting faculty at Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Martin B. Shichtman, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
*-Director of Jewish Studies
*-2006 fellow at Brandeis University’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies
*-2003 participant in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Seminar on Literature and the Holocaust
John Staunton, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
*-Lesson development and research focus
Ken Waltzer, Ph.D., Michigan State University
*-Director of Jewish Studies
*-Research focuses on children in the Buchenwald concentration camp and rescue and survival during the Holocaust
Annette Wannamaker, Ph.D., Eastern Michigan University
*-Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
Jamie Wraight, Ph.D., University of Michigan-Dearborn
*-Curator of the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
*-Professor of History
Members of the museum’s Holocaust survivor network also will present.
Participating teachers will be provided access to the vast primary resources from the museum library and archive to aid them in the development of their own classroom lessons. By the end of the weeklong seminar, they will develop a lesson plan to be shared with other participants.
To register for the seminar, please go to http://ep.emich.edu/holocaust and click on the link titled “Holocaust Seminar.” Cost for the event is $100 and includes Michigan SCHEH credit. Three undergraduate or graduate credit hours also are available to participants for an additional fee. All applications are due by Thursday, July 31.
For further information, contact either Sarah Painter at spainter@emich.edu or the Holocaust Memorial Center at education@holocaustcenter.org or 248-553-2400, ext. 113.
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus opened in 1984. Local Holocaust survivors, with community support, founded the museum to teach about the senseless murder of millions, and why everyone must respect and stand up for the rights of others if the world is to prevent future discrimination, hate crime and genocide. As Michigan’s only Holocaust museum, the Holocaust Memorial Center annually touches the lives of more than 85,000 individuals, who leave the museum profoundly affected with a newly acquired sense of history, social responsibility and morality. The Holocaust Memorial Center’s exhibits create a call to action, teaching visitors through the examples of those who risked their lives to save others, and asking its guests to react to contemporary challenges such as racism, intolerance, bullying and prejudice.
The facility is wheelchair accessible and free parking is available at both the North and South entrances.
For more information on the Holocaust Memorial Center, visit www.holocaustcenter.org, or call 248-553-2400.
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