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The conference committee invites you to submit an abstract for an activity for the afternoon workshops. This abstract must include a clear educational rationale. These activities may include, but are not limited to, curricular units, videos, multimedia presentations, exhibits, theatre, music, art, and dance pieces suitable for students at all levels of formal and informal education.
Each workshop will be ninety minutes in length. No more than two educational activities will be presented in each workshop, allowing each presenter forty-five minutes for their activity.
Please submit an abstract of your activity according to the following parameters:
 In
English
No more than 500 words
Please include a short c.v. with your abstract
Your abstract will only be accepted in a digitized form and should be
sent to the conference
e-mail
All abstracts must be received no later than March 15,
2008
Your notification of acceptance will be sent via email by
March 20, 2008
Your complete educational activity must be digitized so
that it can be edited and formatted for distribution to participants
at the conference. This must be received no later than April 15, 2008
Categories - We will accept educational workshop proposals from the following disciplines:
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Music |
Literature |
Philosophy |
Art
and Film |
History |
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Internet Technology |
Medicine |
Psychology |
Theology |
Drama |
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Suggested Themes for Afternoon Workshops:
The concept of racism in the 19th and 20th centuries
Nazi racial ideology/redemptive antisemitism/eliminationist antisemitism
Race and nationalism
German youth movements - Hitlerjugend
German elites and the racial state – Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, Teachers
Eugenics
Conformity vs. civil disobedience – The White Rose, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
The Swing Kids, Church Leaders
Jewish responses to Nazi decrees
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Suggested Themes for Afternoon
Workshops:
Using drama and music to
highlight culture
Creating projects of joint
learning and service
Using Holocaust education to
fight prejudice, racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism in school and
society
Teaching the Holocaust in a
multicultural European, Australian, North American, and South American
classroom
Teaching the Holocaust to specific target groups: police
officers, judges, and members of the armed forces
Other genocides and the Holocaust – parallels and
differences
Justice and morality in today’s classroom – the place of
the Shoah in a genocidal world
Abstract submissions for the
afternoon workshops on Wednesday, July 9th will be open ONLY to
graduates of Yad Vashem seminars from around the globe. Submissions for
July 8th and 10th will be open to everyone.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Suggested Themes for Afternoon Workshops:
The survivors reflect on 60 years
Their voices live on – survivor testimony
Testimony without survivors
Literature as testimony
The Holocaust and Israel – the connections
March of the Living
Witnesses in Uniform
Film as witness
The use of testimony in the classroom
Art as testimony
Survival through the eyes of a child
Stories of liberation – the will to go on and overcome Digitized abstracts and inquiries should be addressed to:
e-mail
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