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K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where
he has taught since 1966. In addition to service on the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council and the editorial board for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, he has published hundreds of articles and reviews
and more than thirty books, including A Consuming Fire: Encounters
with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust, Approaches to Auschwitz (with
Richard L. Rubenstein), Different Vouces: Women and the Holocaust
(with Carol Rittner), Ethics after the Holocaust, "Good News"
after Auschwitz: Christian Faith within a Post-Holocaust World (with
Carol Rittner), and major contributions to Holocaust Chronicle, and
Holocaust Politics. Roth has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust
studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, and his Holocaust-related
research appointments include a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship at
the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England. In 1988,
Roth was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. |
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Ethics,
Education, and Religion after the Holocaust: Talking about the
Issues That Matter Most
Wednesday October 16
- Sunday October 20, 2002
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center
(OCCE)
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
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This seminar explores the Holocaust's most important implications
and questions for ethics, education, and religion. The seminar's
guiding issues include:
*Why were ethical and religious traditions ineffective in preventing
the Holocaust?
* Are there ethical lessons and religious insights that emerge
from the Holocaust?
* How can study of the Holocaust help to define what ethics,
education, and
religion need to emphasize in a post-Holocaust world that includes
the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States and its
aftermath?
* How are we best able to talk about such questions, which are
often intensified by deep emotions and raw feelings?
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The Seminar Reading List:
These books and articles supplied by OSLEP.
* Auschwitz and After, Charlotte Delbo's Holocaust
memoir
* Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm, Philip Hallie's
significant post-Holocaust reflection on ethics
* Holocaust Politics, John Roth's book whose emphases include
education and religion after the Holocaust
* Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence,
Mark Juergensmeyer's study that advances reflection on the causes
of and remedies for mass violence.
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