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Scholar from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to Speak Feb. 6 |
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Eric Steinhart will talk on “Soviet Collaborators and the Holocaust in Ukraine” on Monday, Feb. 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the College of Health and Human Services in Room 281.
Steinhart earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2010 and is a Research Scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C.
His dissertation, “Creating Killers: The Nazification of the Black Sea Germans and the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine, 1941-1944,” received the prestigious Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize from the German Historical Institute in 2011.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsors are the Department of Global, International & Area Studies and the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies in UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Other sponsors are the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity of the Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation and Stephen Cypen.
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Without Sanctuary: A Conference on Lynching and the American South |
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The Center for the Study of the New South, in collaboration with the Levine Museum of the New South, issues a call for papers related to lynching in America and the South in particular. The exhibit of lynching photographs, Without Sanctuary, will be at the Levine Museum of the New South in October of 2012. Papers and panels specifically related to the exhibit or to other aspects of lynching in American culture are requested. The conference will take place October 11th-13th, 2012.
The organizers welcome presentations from a broad range of disciplines and fields: History, English, Sociology, Legal Studies, Africana Studies, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Labor Studies, Southern Studies, Cultural Studies, Photography, Museum Studies and related perspectives. Organizers anticipate publishing an edited volume of selected essays. Some of the issues they are interested in exploring involve the role of lynching in American culture, literary explorations of lynching, the legal and political dimensions of lynching, and the impact of lynching on communities in the South.
The conference will be held at UNC Charlotte Center City at 320 E. 9th St. and the Levine Museum of the New South at 200 East 7th St. Abstracts of 250 words are due by June 1, 2012 to Jeffrey Leak, Director of the Center for the Study of the New South. For more information, check the website at: www.newsouth.uncc.edu.
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Library workshop, co-sponsored by CLAS, to explore digital humanities |
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The Atkins Library Digital Scholarship Lab, in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, will host the free workshop “Exploring Digital Humanities: Practicalities and Potential” on Monday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
Faculty, graduate students and staff at UNC Charlotte and neighboring institutions are invited to attend either or both sessions of this event, co-sponsored by the J. Murrey Atkins Library and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. To reserve a seat, email Kristy Dixon at
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by Thursday, Dec. 1.
This free, digital scholarship symposium, being held in Atkins Library, Room 125, will examine, discuss and test the possibilities for scholarship enabled by new digital technology. The morning session will showcase different practitioners discussing their work in the field of digital humanities. In the afternoon, practitioners will lead small-group workshops on ways to use digital technology to research, publish and teach in the humanities.
Featured guests will include:
- Robert Morrissey from the University of Chicago and the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)
- Mark Olsen, assistant director of the ARTFL Project
- Mark Sample from the Department of English at George Mason University and an affiliated faculty member with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
- Paul Youngman, UNC Charlotte’s Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities
- Heather McCullough, UNC Charlotte’s Atkins Library Digital Scholarship Lab
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Lunch, Workshop, and Public Lecture with Mariana Ortega |
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The Center for Professional and Applied Ethics has several events coming up. For more information regarding the following events, please contact
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. Also, stay up to date about the Center's many events and guest lectures on their website.
Tuesday, November 29
Advancing Women and Minorities in the Academy: Feminism and Critical Race Theory
Critical Mestizaje: Working With and Beyond Gloria Anzaldua’s New Mestiza”
12:00pm – 2:00pm Cone 210 Lunch/Workshop
Mariana Ortega, Department of Philosophy, Holds Shula Chair in Philosophy, John Carroll University
Co-Sponsors: Academic Affairs, Honors College, Graduate School, Department of Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, and University Honors Program
Tuesday, November 29
“Worldtraveling and Multiple-Consciousness”
4:00pm – 5:30pm Cone 112 Public Lecture
Mariana Ortega, Department of Philosophy, Holds Shula Chair in Philosophy, John Carroll University
Co-Sponsors: Academic Affairs, Honors College, Graduate School, Department of Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies, Africana Studies, and University Honors Program |
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