Holocaust Memorial Center Teams with EMU on Summer Seminar

The and Eastern Michigan University announced that they will co-host a Summer Educational Institute seminar to benefit current and prospective teachers and their students from Aug. 15-19.

Applications for the weeklong seminar, “Reading the Holocaust: A Seminar for Teachers,” are due Aug. 1. 

Using the latest academic scholarship and best instructional practices to make lessons about the Holocaust understandable and meaningful for students, the seminar is designed to build an instructor’s content base. It will be held at the Center, which is on Orchard Lake Rd. in Farmington Hills.

Attendees will hear presentations from scholars and survivors examining the Holocaust from the rise of Nazism to the Holocaust deniers of today.  Presenters include:

• Sidney M. Bolkosky, Ph.D, William E. Stirton professor in the Social Sciences and director of the honors program, University of Michigan-Dearborn
• Robert Franciosi, Ph.D, professor of English and honors, Grand Valley State University
• Henry Greenspan, Ph.D., psychologist and playwright, University of Michigan
• Jack Kay, Ph.D., provost and vice president, Eastern Michigan University
• Martin Schichtman, Ph.D., English department professor, director of Jewish Studies at Eastern Michigan University
• John Staunton, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University
• Guy Stern, Ph.D., distinguished professor emeritus of German at Wayne State University
• Annette Wannamaker, Ph. D., associate professor in the Department of English and Literature at Eastern Michigan University

Participating teachers will be provided access to the vast primary resources from the museum library and archive to aid them in the development of their own classroom lessons.

To register, visit http://ep.emich.edu and click on the link for “Reading the Holocaust: A Seminar for Teachers.”  Cost for the event is $100. Nine SB-CEUs or three undergraduate or graduate credit hours are available for an additional fee.

To learn more, call Julie Knutson at 734-487-3152 or write to Rebecca Swindler at education@holocaustcenter.org.