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------------------------------------------------------ The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce two seminar opportunities for professors who are teaching or preparing to teach Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses. Seminar for Professors of Theology, Ethics, and Religion A seminar for professors of theology, ethics, and religion at theological schools and other institutions of advanced education, who are teaching or preparing to teach a Holocaust-related course or who are expanding a current course to include Holocaust-related components. The seminar will take place from January 13 to 17, 2003 and will comprise morning lectures and discussions on the challenge of the Holocaust for institutional religion and its implications for contemporary ethics. The seminar will be taught by John T. Pawlikowski, Professor of Social Ethics and Director of Catholic Jewish Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Professor Pawlikowski is renowned for his work in Christian-Jewish relations and serves as Vice President and Chair of the Theology Committee of the International Council of Christians Jews; Vice President of the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies; and member of the Advisory Committee on Catholic-Jewish Relations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Professor Pawlikowski scholarly publications include Christ in the Light of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue (1992) and Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Christian and Jewish Perspectives (2001). Dr. Pawlikowski chairs the Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and is a member of the Council's Committee on Conscience and Academic Committee. Applications for this seminar must be postmarked no later than September 27, 2002. Candidates will be notified of the results of the application process for this seminar by October 25, 2002. Seminar on Literature and the Holocaust The seminar is open to faculty members who are either teaching or preparing to teach literature or English classes that have a substantive component on the Holocaust. The seminar is scheduled for June 4-15, 2003 and will be team taught by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Sterling Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature, and Project Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut; Sara R. Horowitz, Associate Professor of English, Division of Humanities, and Associate Director, Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario; and R. Clifton Spargo, Assistant Professor of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The seminar will comprise lectures and discussions focusing on such key issues as the methods and importance of employing Holocaust-related fiction and poetry in English and literature courses; the ways in which the history and memory of the Holocaust are transmitted in literature; the public reception of those transmissions; the relationship between oral testimony and literature; and the potentially therapeutic value of using literature to confront the emotional trauma left behind after the genocide. The participants will meet in daily two-and-a-half hour sessions. Applications for this seminar must be postmarked no later than November 1, 2002. Candidates will be notified of the results of the application process for this seminar by December 20, 2002. Application Process All Candidates must be faculty members of accredited, degree-awarding institutions (baccalaureate, the equivalent, or higher) in the United States. Applications must include a curriculum vita, a short statement of the candidate's specific interest, and a supporting letter from a departmental chair or dean, detailing the Holocaust-related courses that the candidate is teaching or planning, and the support that the university is either providing or making available for Holocaust studies at their institution. If the applicant has already taught an applicable course, a syllabus should also be included. Admission to each seminar will be decided without regard to the age, sex, race, creed, or national origin of the candidate. A maximum of twenty applicants will be accepted per seminar. For each seminar, the Center will defray the cost of (1) direct travel to and from the participant's home institution and Washington, DC, and (2) lodging for non-local participants for the duration of the course. Incidental and meal expenses must be defrayed by the candidates or their respective institutions. All participants must attend the entire seminar. There will also be opportunities to use the Museum's library and archival holdings, as well as the other research collections at the Museum. Please send applications to: University Programs Division Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2150 Fax: 202-479-9726 E-mail: university_programs@ushmm.org
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