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  • , Associate Professor of French, PLUBio: Professor Wilkin specializes in intellectual history in early modern France–skepticism, stoicism, Descartes and Cartesianism–from the standpoint of feminist criticism. She also works on Counter-Reformation culture: mysticism, demonology, and missionary encounters with the native peoples of North America. She teaches francophone literature from Europe, North America, and Africa. Conference ScheduleKevin P. SpicerPresentation Title: “The Plight of Erna Becker-Kohen

  • overall life perspective changed. I realized how big the world is and how there is so much out there. It definitely gave me a huge travel bug, as I am planning to go on trip to Europe as soon as possible. Banks Peninsula, Akaroa, New Zealand - January 9, 2019

  • . interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. [Countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are excluded, although proven language ability in a European language is recognized as a measure of a candidate’s ability to learn a new language of a country considered critical to the U.S.] Note: special Boren scholarships are available for summer study abroad for students in STEM disciplines. Award/Stipend

  • Ceija Stojka, "Arrest and Deportation", 1995. Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid HGST Courses J-Term 2025 Course Number and TitleClass Time POLS 231: Current International IssuesTWFR 8:30-11:20am HGST Courses Spring 2025 Course Number and TitleClass Time ENGL 397: Sex, Gender, and Holocaust LiteratureTR 9:55-11:40 FYEP 102/ENGL 216: Holocaust LiteratureTR 1:45-3:30 HISP 301: Hispanic Voices for Social ChangeTR 3:40-5:25 HIST 329: Europe and the World WarsTR 9:55

  • Printing Madame DupinLast fall, Students in French 401, “Women and Print in Early Modern France,” got to try their hand at something really new (or old?!): letterpress printing. The occasion was momentous.  They were putting into print, for the very first time, the manuscript words of Madame Dupin. Dupin is best known as the châtelaine of the beautiful castle of Chenonceau in the Loire valley, and for saving this historic site from destruction during the French revolution by allowing

  • a dozen years teaching Jewish history to adults, college students, and teens. She builds Centropa’s network of schools in North America; designs professional development seminars, and webinars; and develops programs and teaching tools for Centropa’s educators in the US, Europe, and Israel. Conference ScheduleLori GersonPresentation Title: “Tunisia’s Jewish Boxer: Teaching the Holocaust Through the Human Story” Who: Lori Gerson, Yad Vashem Bio: After graduating from Barnard College in New York

  • IntroductionAfrican ArtFind out moreIn terms of land mass, Africa is a large continent, in which all of the United States, Europe, China, India, Mexico, and Japan could easily fit. It is also a place of tremendous diversity, in terms of languages spoken, ethnic identities, cultural traditions, environments in which people live and work, and historic experiences. Sadly, popular culture has profoundly shaped what Africa, Africans, and their rich and diverse cultures are “supposed” to look like

  • From Quills to Laptops: Transcribing Early Modern Manuscriptsby Nancy Simpson-YoungerBringing the Literary World to the Classroomby Wendy CallA Work-in-Progress: A New English Faculty Writing Workshopby Jenny JamesEnglish Department Welcomes New Faculty Members!by Jenny James

  • , Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), 2010-2012, and is now Honorary Member of the DGPPN; 4. to research the medical faculty of the Reich University Strassburg; 5. Austrian neurology under National Socialism. His research interests cover eugenics, international health organizations, and coerced experiments/ research under National Socialism. Publications include Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism (1989), Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe 1890-1945 (2000), Nazi

  • .” Who: Kelly Palmer, University of Tampa Bio: Kelly Palmer specializes in the history of modern Europe. She attended Michigan State University and her research and teaching interests include the history of France, the Holocaust and European postwar historical memory. Palmer is currently researching American intervention to rescue Jews during World War II through the lens of humanitarian Roswell McClelland, who represented the American Friends Service Committee and War Refugee Board in France and