FAU’s Holocaust Studies program presents lectures
Published January 13th, 2008
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies in
the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic
University will present two lectures in January.
”Dangerous Monologues: Islam and Its Others” will be
presented by Anouar Majid of the University of New England today at
4 p.m., and “Rescue, Resistance . . . and Teaching the Holocaust”
will be presented by Deborah Dwork of Clark University Sunday, Jan.
20 at 4 p.m.
Both lectures will take place in the Performing Arts Building, room
101, on FAU’s Boca Raton campus. They are free and open to the
public.
Anouar Majid is a professor and founding chair of the department
of English at the University of New England in Maine. He has written
several books, lectured and given keynote addresses at major universities
and cultural institutions. He also published a novel and edits “Tingis,”
a Moroccan-American magazine he co-founded in 2003.
Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the director
of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
at Clark University. Her books include Children With A Star and Auschwitz,
co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, which was the basis for the
Emmy-nominee BBC documentary, “Auschwitz: The Blueprints of
Genocide.”
Her most recent book, also co-authored with van Pelt, Holocaust:
A History, spans the history in which the Holocaust was rooted, from
the Middle Ages to the middle of the 20th century, and across the
continent of Europe.
No reservations are required for the lectures. For more information,
call 561-297-2979.
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