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May 21, 2012
9:00 AM
- 5:00 PM
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Location Avrohm I. Wisenberg Multipurpose Learning Center
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The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers is a week-long program that introduces university students preparing for a career in teaching to the history and to the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides. The Warren Fellowship, supported by The Warren Fellowship Fund, is developing a corps of educators who want to learn how to effectively teach about genocide and the Holocaust. The fellowship takes place at Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas each spring. Now in its 10 year, the Fellowship will welcome 25 pre-service educators and teacher educators to Holocaust Museum Houston for an intense week of study. Throughout the week, participants will study with Holocaust and genocide scholars and Holocaust survivors. Confirmed speakers include: Dr. Mary Johnson, Facing History and Ourselves; Dr. Adam Jones, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Dr. Ann Millin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Nancy Patz, artist and author of “Who Was The Woman Who Wore the Hat?;” Dr. Lawrence Langer, emeritus professor, Simmons College; and Dr. Karen Shawn, Yeshiva University. Child survivor Chaja Verveer, commissioner of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission and Holocaust Museum Houston Board member also will address the attendees. Warren Fellowship alumni Carey Conner and Matthew Remington also will present. Participants are selected on a competitive basis. competitively; To apply, visit http://www.hmh.org/ed_warren%20fellowship.shtml. For more information, e-mail  education@hmh.org.
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May 22, 2012
6:30 PM
- 8:00 PM
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Location Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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The United States has made a great deal of racial progress. However, much of that progress is built upon historical amnesia. People often prefer to forget the past as part of the path forward. This may be more comfortable, but also leaves people ill-equipped to understand, much less deal with, racial challenges today. There are several examples of the disparate treatment of people, where placing the treatment in historic context will yield more sophisticated understandings and better paths towards solutions. Dr. Kevin Michael Foster’s talk will recover the realities of anti-black violence and intimidation in the United States as one place to start. From there, Foster will consider the reactions of different groups of people to recent racial incidents in the news and discuss productive paths forward. Foster is an anthropologist and faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2010-2011, he moved his primary academic appointment to the new African and African Diaspora Studies Program to be a part of that department at its founding. He remains a member of the Curriculum and Instruction Graduate Faculty and still works with Cultural Studies in Education students. Foster received his doctorate and master's from The University of Texas at Austin and his bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary. Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is requested. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online.
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May 22, 2012
7:00 PM
- 8:30 PM
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Location Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, 6221 Main St., Houston, TX 77030
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A panel discussion with leaders from the Houston-area religious community and A.D. Players will discuss the importance of study of the German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his actions against Nazi tyranny during the Holocaust in conjunction with the play “The Beams Are Creaking” by the A.D. Players. The panelists will discus what is to be learned from Bonhoeffer’s experience and teachings to help create communities free of hatred and prejudice and to nurture a people who refuse to be silent bystanders in the face of injustice toward anyone. Confirmed participants include the Rev. Sam Craven, senior associate rector at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church; Prof. Randy Hatchett, director of the School of Theology at Houston Baptist University; Marcia Kugler, program director at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church; Jeannette Clift George, founder and artistic director of A.D. Players; and Rabbi Ranon Teller of Congregation Brith Shalom. Admission is free, but advance registration is requested. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online.
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May 23, 2012
6:30 PM
- 8:00 PM
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Location Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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For the boy who grew up to be the artist Samuel Bak, the destruction of the Vilna ghetto together with most members of his family remains a painful memory. The works he devotes to the disappearance of Vilna Jewry represent a visual tribute to the power of art to reclaim from oblivion the fate of a lost community. With their melancholy beauty, these works challenge the imagination to honor the presence of Vilna Jewry in art even as we mourn their absence by facing their historical destiny. Dr. Lawrence L. Langer returns to Houston to engage the Museum community in further conversation about his friend and colleague, Samuel Bak. During the event, Langer will lecture in the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater and lead a Mincberg Gallery exhibition walk-through of the exhibit “Returning: the Art of Samuel Bak.” Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is requested. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online.
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May 24, 2012
6:30 PM
- 8:00 PM
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Location Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
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In his popular textbook, "Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction" (2nd edition, 2010), Dr. Adam Jones wrote, “It is thus in the interest of humanity — both morally and practically — to oppose the crime against humanity that is genocide." Jones' lecture will focus on the data-set of interventions and non-interventions that have been proposed and/or used for genocide prevention or intervention. He will examine these for the lessons they can teach and delve into the vexed issue of when military intervention is justified. Jones is associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He is a political scientist, writer and photojournalist and is the author of "Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction"and author or editor of 15 other books, mostly on genocide and crimes against humanity. In 2010, Adam Jones was chosen as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide" for the book of that name. He serves as executive director of Gendercide Watch (www.gendercide.org), a Web-based educational initiative. He has also recently worked as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG). Admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is requested. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online.
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May 26, 2012
10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
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Location Morgan Family Center
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Through May and early June, Holocaust Museum Houston will offer free tours focusing on the German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer's actions against the Nazi party and his message to the church in the context of the events of the Holocaust will be the focus of tours of the Museum's permanent exhibit, German railcar and Danish fishing boat. Tours include a look at the early influences on Bonhoeffer before the Holocaust, his organization of the Confessing Church to stand with the Jews in reaction to the Aryan clause and his imprisonment and execution at the Flossenburg concentration camp by direct order from Hitler. Admission and the walk-in tour are free. Tour sizes are limited, and advance reservation is requested. To register for any tour, visit www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online. To schedule a separate private group tour for 10 or more in advance, visit the Museum's Web site at www.hmh.org and check the “Plan Your Visit tab.” The tours are presented in conjunction with the presentation of “The Beams Are Creaking,” by Douglas Anderson, on performance at A.D. Players from May 2 through June 10, 1012. For tickets or more information about the play, please visit
www.adplayers.org.
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