October 19: "No Justice With Healing? No Healing Without Justice?" with Craig Higson-Smith
Oct 7, 2022
BOONE, N.C. — International Human Rights expert Craig Higson-Smith is slated to speak at Appalachian State on the role of seeking justice in healing torture and genocide.
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Next-gen weather station installed near Everest’s summit
Jun 28, 2022
On a postcard day in 2021, Tenzing Gyalzen Sherpa crested the Balcony, a windswept rest spot high on Mount Everest’s Southeast Ridge. In front of his crampons, half-buried in the hardened snow, were the remains of the world’s highest weather station.
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Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Jun 20, 2022
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Levine Distinguished Professor of Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Department of History, has recently published a new article in the Journal of Holocaust Research.
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Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies Partners with Israeli College to Launch Virtual Presentation Series on Medicine and the Holocaust
Mar 22, 2022
The history of medicine during the Holocaust is a broad, multidisciplinary field, which arouses the keen interest of many researchers worldwide.
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Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop '22
Mar 21, 2022
In cooperation with the Southeast German Studies Consortium, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies will host the Fourteenth Southeast German Studies Consortium (SEGSC) workshop on March 24 and 25, 2022. First convened in 2008, the annual SEGSC workshops bring together
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Eminent Israeli Haskalah Scholar Professor Shmuel Feiner to Speak at App State
Mar 14, 2022
The keynote lecture of the 2022 Southeast German Studies Workshop (SEGSW) will be delivered at Appalachian State on Thursday, March 24, at 4:30 pm at the Reich College of Education (R. 124) by Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan).
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Center Launches New Course Exchange with Western Galilee College in Israel
Mar 10, 2022
The Minor in Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University is cooperating with the Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College (WGC) to offer a first virtual class on "Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust" for AS
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Honors alumna Maddie Gaillard ‘21 teaches English in Spain
Feb 25, 2022
Honors alumna and Chancellor’s Scholar Maddie Gaillard ‘21 has been serving as an English Language Assistant (ELA) through the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program (NALCAP) in V
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