The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education is pleased to be hosting Dr. Alan Rosen on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4 p.m. in the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall 404. Dr. Alan Rosen’s lecture titled, “Killing Time, Saving Time: Calendars and the Holocaust,” will examine the intriguing and complex questions in the context of
Chapman University, t he Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and Wilkinson College are pleased to host a lecture titled, “A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner” with Dr. Deborah Dwork on October 18, 2012 in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel in the Fish Interfaith Center. Written in tiny script on scarce
No real routine yet – too early of course. The days are filled with meetings – many interesting and full of promise. As I transition from being a Chair to a Dean it is interesting to work with my colleagues and appreciate what they are doing in the early days of semester. There is comfort
Day 3: I snuck a few hours of research time today – a guilty pleasure! I’m aiming to finish up an afterward for a forthcoming book on Cinematic Terror and the Sublime; and there is also the writing up of a conference paper that I gave at a conference on Psychoanalysis and Poetry at Oxford
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce a lecture on War and Ethnic Cleansing: The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922-2012 with Dr. Richard Hovannisian on September 5 in Beckman Hall, Room 404 at 7 p.m. Dr. Hovannisian is the Chancellor Fellow in the Department of History and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences was excited at the opportunity to showcase all Wilkinson departments and programs, and the faculty within those departments and programs, at the Staff Summit Resource Fair on Thursday, June 14 in Beckman Hall. Wilkinson displayed faculty published books, student and faculty research projects, ancient artifacts, Wilkinson Review (past
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education will host “An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance” on Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall. The night will begin with a musical tribute, followed by lighting of candles of remembrance and then reflections by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Chapman University,
The Chancellor’s Premier Lecture Series, 4th Annual Lectio Magistralis, presents, “The Holocaust: In the Crucible of Memory” with Dr. Marilyn J. Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Professor of Religious Studies and History in Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Monday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The Holocaust is often characterized as “unspeakable”
The Chapman delegation enjoying a special tour of The Kennedy Center were (l-r) Dana Hollander, Sonali Toppur, Katy Brannigan, Napoleon Gladney ‘08, Dr. Marilyn Harran, Natalie Larson, Victoria Moyzis and Courtney Widerman. The annual study trip to Washington, D.C., presented to prize winners in Chapman University’s Rodgers Center Holocaust Art and Writing Contest, is always full
Sixty years ago this month, Israel’s Knesset established Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, to be the 27th of Nissan. And while commemorations around the world honor the survivors of one of the largest genocides in world history every year, this year, as the number of survivors dwindles, it is more important than ever to