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The Humanities Council has awarded a major grant to the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College for a 2008 residential summer institute for secondary school teachers on the Holocaust and genocide.
The Cohen Center’s summer institutes attract educators, scholars and witnesses to genocide from around the world. The theme for this year’s institute, which will be held from July 13 to 19, is The Holocaust and Genocide: Lessons for Ethical and Responsible Civic Engagement and Global Action. Sibylle Niemoeller von Sell will give the keynote address. Niemoeller von Sell is the widow of Adolph Hitler’s only personal prisoner, Pastor Martin Niemoeller. Speakers will include Therese Seibert, a scholar who visited Rwanda in 2007 and will discuss the genocide that took place there.
Participants will experience an intensive week of study, reflection, collaboration and camaraderie. The institute will offer graduate-level lectures by scholars and witnesses on the history of the Holocaust and genocide and group discussions about applying the lessons to the classroom. The underlying purpose of the Institute is to provide a multidisciplinary introduction to both the historical background and facts of the Holocaust to facilitate more accurate and effective teaching of the Holocaust at the secondary level.
The institute will take place at Keene State College and participants will be housed in the new Pondside III Residential Hall.
Five additional workshops will be held during the following school year.
The fee is $150 for New Hampshire teachers and $400 for out-of state educators. The fee will cover room, board, all meals, and texts. Teachers may also apply for four graduate credits via Continuing Education at Keene State.
For more information or to download an application, go to the Cohen Center’s website or call Tom White at 603-358-2746 with questions.
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The Humanities Council has funded summer institutes that will offer teachers opportunities for professional development. Contact information for more details and registration are listed with each institute.
The Classical Association of New England (CANE) will hold a week-long teacher institute from July 7 through 12 at Dartmouth College. Titled Revolution and Reaction: Radical Changes and Continuities in the Ancient World, this 26th annual CANE summer institute will offer teachers at all levels a rich program of lectures, mini-course seminars and other academic and artistic activities. The institute will examine revolutions and reactions in politics, art, literature, thought, and in the classical scholarship of the 20th century.
For more information contact CANE Director John Higgins at
413-528-6691 or visit CANE's website.
The Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College will host a residential summer institute for secondary school teachers on the Holocaust and Genocide titled The Holocaust and Genocide: Lessons for Ethical and Responsible Civic Engagement and Global Action. The institute will be held from July 13 to July 19 at Keene State College.
Participants will experience an intensive week of study, reflection, collaboration and camaraderie. The institute will offer graduate-level lectures by scholars and witnesses on the history of the Holocaust and genocide and group discussions about applying the lessons to the classroom. The underlying purpose of the Institute is to provide a multidisciplinary introduction to both the historical background and facts of the Holocaust to facilitate more accurate and effective teaching of the Holocaust at the secondary level. The Cohen Center recently received the New England Board of Higher Education’s award as a New Hampshire Center of Excellence for 2008.
For more information or to download an application, go to the Cohen Center’s website or contact Tom White at 603-358-2746 with questions.
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Location: Harvard Center for Government and Int'l Studies South Building 050
9:15 AM – 3:00 PM
*Workshop Limited to 20 Participants*
Description: This workshop assists K-12 educators in teaching about religion and religions (Islam in particular) in the classroom through highlighting the problem of religious illiteracy and offering theoretical and practical ways it can be overcome. Discussion both with the presenters and among the educators will be an important part of the workshop. The workshop is free of charge and is open to only 20 registrants. Participants will receive a copy of Professor Diane Moore’s book, Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Tayeb Salih's The Wedding of Zein and other Sudanese Stories (Heinemann, 1991).
There is a ten dollar workshop fee for registration. For more details, please see the Workshop's webpage, or email The Outreach Center at cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu.
The Outreach Center
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/outreach
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