Teaching and Working with Holocaust Testimonies

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The University of Michigan-Flint is offering an extraordinary professional development event for Holocaust educators this summer! Teaching and Working with Holocaust Testimonies will be held from July 15-19 on the premises of the Frances Willson Thompson Library, a state of the art facility for online research and instruction.

The workshop is geared toward high school and college teachers as well as graduate students, and will focus on:

• Information literacy and critical skills in teaching with or conducting research based on Holocaust survivor video testimonies online at Shoah Visual History Archive, University of  Southern California, and Voice/Vision testimonies, online at University of Michigan-Dearborn.
• Working with digital testimony resources as texts and as sources for doing history.

Project Directors include Dr. Kenneth Waltzer (Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies, Michigan State University) and Dr. Theodosia Robertson (Associate Professor Emerita, History, University of Michigan-Flint).

Presenters include Dr. Henry Greenspan (Professor of Psychology, Residential College, University of Michigan); Dr. Jamie Wraight (Curator UM-Dearborn Voice/Vision Archive); Staff Guest from the University of Southern California Shoah Visual History Foundation Archive; Jennifer Marlow (Ph.D. Candidate, History, Michigan State University); Emily Cowen (Teacher and Master of Social Science Candidate, UM-Flint); and Emily Newberry (Reference and Social Media Librarian, UM-Flint).

Participants will receive a packet of readings in advance on using testimonies and a copy of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2nd ed.) by Dr. Henry Greenspan.

UM-Flint’s new First Street Residence Hall will provide inexpensive overnight accommodations, with breakfast and some meals included.

Application, registration, and further details are posted at http://www.umflint.edu/holocaust-workshop.page. The deadline to apply for the workshop has been extended to May 15.

Please contact Dr. Robertson ([e-mail]) or Emily Newberry, Social Media Librarian ([e-mail]) with any questions.