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Advancing Scholarship and Education
International Conference on Tolerance
On April 3-4, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute co-sponsored an international academic conference , "Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present."
Professor Benjamin Kaplan of University College London and the University of Amsterdam , author of Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe , delivered the keynote address. More than a dozen papers were presented on topics that included antisemitism, the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the U.S. during World War II, and the meaning of toleration in contemporary political theory.
Conference highlights included "Unequal Brothers: Indigenous People in the Republic of Bolivia after the Independence of 1825," a presentation by Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at USC; and "The Meaning of Toleration in Comparative Political Theory and the Implications for Public Policy," presented by USC Professor of Political Science Alison Dundes Renteln. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute plan to compile the papers into a book of essays to be published by the University.
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From left: Stephen Feinberg, USHMM National Outreach for Teacher Initiatives Director; Sherry Bard, Institute Director of Education; Sheila Hansen, Institute Manager of Education; and Peter Fredlake, USHMM Museum Teacher Fellowship Program Coordinator. |
Educational Forum: Teaching about the Holocaust On April 3-5, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in cooperation with the Institute and the USC Rossier School of Education , hosted Teaching about the Holocaust , an educational forum for teachers in the Los Angeles area that drew approximately 200 participants.
Designed specifically for secondary school teachers and aspiring educators, the forum was an opportunity to explore the content, methodologies, and rationales for teaching the history of the Holocaust, increase teachers' knowledge of the Holocaust, and examine contemporary issues associated with its history.
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Holocaust survivor Peter Feigl, whose testimony was used as part of a new classroom resource modeled by Institute Manager of Education Sheila Hansen. View the testimony clips used in the resource on the Institute's website . |
The forum included a presentation by Sheila Hansen, Institute Manager of Education. Hansen modeled a new classroom resource that compares a diary written by survivor Peter Feigl during the Holocaust with testimony he gave to the Institute approximately 50 years later; the lesson, which includes an hour-long DVD of testimony clips, was made available to every participant, with support from the USHMM. View the testimony clips Hansen used during her presentation on the Institute's website . |
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