Upcoming Events

Details of events for the 2008-2009 academic year will be announced in July.
 

January 2009: Lecture by Dr. Christopher Browning, renowned Holocaust expert and author of, among other works, Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 and Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Other upcoming events: An exhibit at the FGCU Art Gallery; lecture on the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath; an essay-writing contest for local youths; teacher-training workshops for area high school teachers (organized with the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida, Summer 2008). We will also bring a Holocaust-era boxcar to campus in November and hold a Kristallnacht memorial event.

We are also helping promote a Jewish Studies Program in Prague this summer by the Lessing Institute: "Undergraduate, graduate students and Open Mind students are invited to join the Jewish Studies Program from 29th June - 25th July 2008. Students can select two or three courses, get university credits or a diploma of attendance, and can join site visits to places of immediate interest to the program, such as the concentration camp of Terezin, other cities associated with the history of Jews in Central Europe, as well as the museums of Berlin, including its Jewish Museum and Holocaust memorial." http://www.lessinginstitute.com/

More information: John Cox, FGCU History Dept., jmcox@fgcu.edu