Center Research Colloquium, '20

 2021-22 Colloquia

shenker_large_0.pngFirst Center Research Colloquium in F'21 Hosts Dr. Noah Shenker (Australia)

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the academic public to its first research colloquium of Fall 2021. The ZOOM-based event features Dr. Noah Shenker (Monash University) live from Australia. It will take place on Thurs., August 26, from 7:30 - 9:00 pm EST (in order to accommodate the time difference, we will hold this symposium in the evening).  Dr. Noah Shenker is the N. Milgrom and 6a Foundation Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation. Traversing Jewish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Cultural Studies, and Cinema and Media Studies, he is a renowened expert on Holocaust survivor testimony. In keeping with our research colloquium format, the meeting will be based on some shorter pre-circulated texts by our guest. Please note that this event was originally scheduled for April, but had to be postponed.

 Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, the program is co-sponsored by ASU's Department of History. To register for this research colloquium, please click here.

 Like all Center events, these online programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu

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Center to Host Online Programs with Prof. Emerita Carolyn Ellis (University of South Florida) on Her Compassionate and Collaborative Research with Holocaust Survivors (Sept. 2)

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to an online lecture by Professor Emerita Carolyn Ellis (University of South Florida). Prof. Ellis' public talk is entitled "Being with Jerry: Compassionate and Collaborative Research with a Survivor of the Holocaust " and will take place on Thurs., September 2, from 7:30 - 9:00 pm EST. To register for this Center lecture, please click here.

Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of South Florida.  She has contributed to the narrative and autoethnographic study of human life through integrating ethnographic, literary, and evocative writing to portray and make sense of lived experience in cultural context.  In her interviews with a survivor of the Holocaust, she seeks to listen deeply, write and analyze collaboratively, and construct compassionate stories  guided by a relational ethics of care that contribute to improving human lives. Dr. Ellis has published eight monographs, six edited books, and more than 150 articles, chapters, and essays. She has edited two book series and presented keynote addresses and workshops in sixteen countries. Her most recent books are Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness Expanded and Revised Edition and Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work, Revised Classic Edition. Her many awards and distinctions include the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). 

In addition to the evening presentation, Prof. Ellis' sought-after work will be featured in the Center's 2nd Fall '21 Virtual Research Colloquium for students and faculty that will take place on the same day (Sept. 2) from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm EST. To register for this research colloquium, please click here.

Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, the program is co-sponsored by ASU's Departments of Communication and History. 

Like all Center events, these online programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu

aleksiun_2018_0.pngDr. Natalia Aleksiun, noted Historian of Modern Polish Jewry, to Speak at ASU (Oct. 19)

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to an online lecture by Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, the incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida-GainesvilleShe currently serves as a senior fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Aleksiun's public talk is entitled "Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians Before the Holocaust" -- also the title of her most recent monograph -- and will take place on Tues., October 19, from 7:00 - 8:30 pm EST. In addition, we will be discussing other aspects of her illuminating work in the Third F'21 Center Research colloquium from 12:30 until 2:00 on the same day. To register for the Center Lecture, please click here. To sign up for the Research Colloquium, please click here.

Dr. Natalia Aleksiun is a specialist in the social, political, and cultural history of modern East European and Polish Jewry and has written extensively on the history of the Jewish intelligentsia in East Central Europe, Polish-Jewish relations, modern Jewish historiography, the history of medicine and the Holocaust. She holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University, Poland, and NYU, U.S.  She has published widely in English, Polish, and Hebrew. In addition to her 2021 study Conscious History, she is the author of Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944–1950) (Warsaw, 2002) and co-editor of several volumes, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017) (with Brian Horowitz and Antony Polonsky) and European Holocaust Studies, vol. 3: European Holocaust Studies (Places, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust) (with Hana Kubátová). She also serves as co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs.

Co-organized by Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and Queens University's Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Education Center, the program is co-sponsored by ASU's Departments of History, Philosophy and Religion as well as the local chapter of Hillel, the Peace and Genocide Education Club, and the Temple of the High Country, Boone.

Like all Center events, these online programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu.