Professor Wolf Gruner, the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Monday, March 19, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114
This event is free of charge, open to the community and no tickets are required.
Wolf Gruner holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and has been a professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles since 2008. He has also been the founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research since 2014. He is a specialist in the history of the Holocaust and in comparative genocide studies.
Gruner is the author of eight books on the Holocaust, among them "Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims," with Cambridge University Press (paperback 2008), as well as over 60 academic articles and book chapters.
He coedited two books, one of them, the translated, updated version of "The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945," published in 2015 with Berghahn Books. Its original German edition received the award for most outstanding German studies in humanities and social sciences in 2012.
Gruner received his PhD in History in 1994 from the Technical University Berlin as well as his Habilitation in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Yad Vashem Jerusalem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Women's Christian University Tokyo, as well as the Desmond E. Lee Visiting Professor for Global Awareness at Webster University in St. Louis.
A mid-day workshop will also be cohosted by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies and the Center for Academic Excellence with Gruner on Genocide testimonies and how to utilize the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive to enhance teaching, learning and research. To register for the workshop, visit: https://workshops.appstate.edu/detail.aspx?key=1662.
For more information on these events, contact the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at holocaust@appstate.edu or call 828.262.2311.
These events are organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian and the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. These events are co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology; Cultural, Gender and Global Studies; English, and History, as well as the German Studies Program, Appalachian's Honors College, the Office of Multicultural Student Development, the Temple of the High Country, the local chapter of Hillel and the Peace and Genocide Education Club.
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About the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies was founded in 2002 to develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers, and the community. Located administratively within the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center seeks to strengthen tolerance, understanding, and remembrance by increasing the knowledge of Jewish culture and history, teaching the history and meaning of the Holocaust, and utilizing these experiences to explore peaceful avenues for human improvement and the prevention of further genocides.
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is an associate institutional member of the Association of Jewish Studies, a member of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and of the North Carolina Consortium of Jewish Studies. To learn more, visit www.holocaust.appstate.edu.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is home to 16 academic departments, two stand-alone academic programs, two centers and one residential college. These units span the humanities, social sciences, and the mathematical and natural sciences. The College of Arts and Sciences aims to develop a distinctive identity built upon our university's strengths, traditions and unique location. Our values lie not only in service to the university and local community, but through inspiring, training, educating and sustaining the development of our students as global citizens. There are approximately 5,850 student majors in the college. As the college is also largely responsible for implementing Appalachian's general education curriculum, it is heavily involved in the education of all students at the university, including those pursuing majors in other colleges. Learn more at cas.appstate.edu.
Professor Wolf Gruner, the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Professor Wolf Gruner, the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research