Education

Connecting the Past to the Present

Scroll down to explore our comprehensive library guides, recorded events, pedagogical approaches, recommended classroom materials, and links to strategies about teaching the Holocaust and mass atrocities.

Image of iron faces from the Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) by Menashe Kadishman at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Incarceration, Transformation & Liberation

The 2021-22 colloquium explores the gradual and subtle processes of liberty and loss, the processes that constitute transformation from the state of incarceration to one of liberation or freedom, and the civic and pedagogical implications resulting from such an inquiry. Link to recorded events is forthcoming.

Image of barbed wire at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2019

Internment & Resistance

The 2020-21 colloquium focused on global constructions of concentration camp systems and the challenges that they present while highlighting acts of resistance. Click here to watch the events.

Image of protesters at a climate change rally

Authoritarianism on a Continuum

The 2019-20 colloquium focused on myriad forms of opposition and resistance to right-wing authoritarian movements and regimes around the world, including artistic activity and public protest. Click here to watch the events.

Image of students touching RYAN! 'Unveiling the Romantic West,' 2015

Native American Cultural Survival & Resistance

The 2018-19 colloquium and related exhibition and library guide introduced audiences to histories of indigenous people on this continent and the concept of “Survivance.” Click here to watch the events.

Image of students sharing their reflections in a circle during a 2017-18 class workshop

Collaboration & Complicity

The 2017-18 colloquium and accompanying library guide used a social psychological lens to evaluate the way that dominant institutions and situational factors impacted the behaviors (or passivity) of individual bystanders and larger communities. Click here to watch the events.

Image of student response notes from 'Conspiracy of Goodness' exhibit

Displacement, Exile & the Refugee

The 2016-17 colloquium and accompanying library guide explored the genocides that create refugee populations, as well as the challenges facing refugee populations as they seek to find asylum in countries and communities that are often resistant to accepting them. Click here to watch the events.

Gender, Mass Violence & Genocide

The 2015-16 colloquium and library guide focused on how gender structures and mediates experiences of mass violence and genocide as well as how attention to gender can help to predict, prevent, and reconcile mass violence and genocide. Click here to watch the events.

Image of students performing music during the 2014-15 KHC/NEH Colloquium

Cultural & Artistic Responses to Genocide

The 2014-15 colloquium and library guide incorporated students’ research and responses to genocide (and organized hate) through work with scholars, Holocaust survivors, collaborations, workshops, an exhibit, and recital. Click here to watch the events.

The Holocaust in Context

Along with Holocaust survivors who gave personal testimony, the 2013-14 colloquium and accompanying library guide provided an interdisciplinary perspective to help students understand the past and make connections to the world that they know. Click here to watch the events.