Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Holocaust Education
June 22-27, 2008
Program Highlights:
In partnership with the Holocaust
Educational Foundation, Northwestern University is pleased to present
a special five-day summer institute designed for middle and
secondary school teachers of grades 7-12
to effectively incorporate Holocaust studies into their teaching,
and to meet the Illinois state mandate for Holocaust education.
Enrollment is by application only, and tuition is free. This
program will:
- Provide teachers with a background on the history of the Holocaust as well as its aftermath;
- Show teachers several ways of approaching the subject of the Holocaust;
- Assist teachers in presenting sensitive and potentially disturbing material to students;
- Familiarize teachers with some of the vast number of resource materials (books, films, Web sites, etc.) available on the Holocaust;
- Offer continuing education units for teachers from the State of Illinois
The Institute curriculum consists of presentations and discussions of themes such as: the purposes of Holocaust study, types of anti-semitism, the Holocaust in literature and film, age-appropriate material, the nature of the Third Reich, the role of slave labor in World War II, and issues of memory and memorialization. In addition to lectures and group discussions, a significant amount of time will be devoted to journal writing, reflective processing, and a varied program of guest lectures and related outings. In advance of the program, there will be a requirement to read books (including Martin Gilbert's Atlas of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel's Night, and Art Spiegelman's Maus II) provided by the Holocaust Educational Foundation, and to view three films so that we may discuss them (rather than both show and discuss them) in the limited time available. There will also be about 10 pages of nightly reading during the workshop week.
This unique summer program should be perceived as a conversation about a vast
and difficult subject, and not as an information download process. Plenty of
information and resources will be provided, but the real goal is to investigate
frameworks for understanding this complex topic.
The Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Holocaust Education will take place on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The program will begin with registration and a light reception on Sunday, June 22. In addition to daytime programming, evening events will be held in conjunction with the concurrently running Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.
Program Faculty
The Program Director, Alan Beyerchen, is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University, where he recently served three years as Graduate Studies Chair. He completed a B.A. in German and a Ph.D. in history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. At Ohio State, Professor Beyerchen has primary responsibility for undergraduate and graduate instruction in German history, and he teaches various courses on European history, history of the Holocaust and historical methodology. He also teaches a summer workshop in Ohio on the Holocaust and Holocaust Education for middle and high school teachers.
Professor Beyerchen is best known for his book Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich, published by Yale University Press, and translated into Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and Turkish. He has also published on science-technology relationships, nonlinearity, the military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz, and on various topics in German history.
Professor Beyerchen has received awards for outstanding teaching at the department,
college and university levels, as well as from the Ohio Academy of History.
He has won grants or fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the
German Academic Exchange Service, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Science Foundation and the Holocaust Educational Foundation. From 1988-1994 he served as a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 1992.
Who Should Attend:
This summer institute is designed specifically for middle and high school teachers, primarily in history, English, language arts, and social studies, and for those whose areas are related to or would be enhanced by study of the Holocaust.
Registration Information
Enrollment is by application only and a limited number of full tuition scholarships are available through a grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation. Applications are due by May 23, 2008. Please click here for
an application.
Directions, Parking, and Accommodations
Directions to the Northwestern campus in Evanston are available online at http://www.northwestern.edu/campus/directions/.
Permits for parking on campus during the Negotiation Institute will be available upon request after registration. Permits are free to participants, but must be requested by May 23rd. Permits will be mailed the week of June 2nd.
Participants who are accepted to the program will have the choice of either commuting to campus or residing in a dormitory during the week. Applicants should indicate their preference on the application form.
This program is made possible through a generous gift from the Holocaust Educational Foundation. Dedicated to spreading and strengthening Holocaust studies at colleges and universities, the Holocaust Educational Foundation assists in launching courses related to the Holocaust and improving institutional resources to support such programming.
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