Pittsburgh Platform

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Fellowship Information Sessions: DAAD

DAAD Graduate Scholarships Information Session
Tuesday, October 10
4:30 PM
4130 Posvar Hall
DAAD Graduate Scholarships provide funding for graduate study or research in all fields in Germany. Not all fields require German language proficiency. U.S. citizenship is NOT required. Campus nomination deadline is October 24, 2017. Direct apply deadline is November 4, 2017.

DAAD Undergraduate Programs Information Session
Monday, October 30
5:00 PM
Cathedral of Learning 35th Floor
DAAD provides opportunities for undergraduates to go to Germany to study, perform summer research, learn the German language, and more. U.S. citizenship is NOT required. Deadlines run between December 1, 2017 and late-January 2018, depending on program.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

JS Brown-Bag Talk: "Isis's Writings on Jews and Judaism"

Younus Mirza (Allegheny College)

Monday April 3, 2017, 12 noon-1:30 pm; 602 CL (Humanities Center)

Jewish Studies Brown Bag Colloquium:

"ISIS's Writings on Jews and Judaism: Its Appropriation of Medieval Muslim Views"

Made possible by the Cardin Fund for Jewish Studies

Professor Mirza has shared his academia.edu site with us so you can get a sense of his wide range of work in medieval and modern Muslim intellectual history and his work on intersections of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in the Middle Ages: http://allegheny.academia.edu/YounusMirza

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Queering Religion Student Panel March 30

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

West Chester U: MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, offers a Master of Arts and a graduate certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is currently accepting applications. This 10 course MA program features courses in history, philosophy, psychology, language arts, and other related subjects. Graduates of the program have gone on to work in academia, Holocaust education, public history, and human rights advocacy.

Applications are welcome from any undergraduate discipline. Applicants must possess, and provide evidence of, a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher education; must have a GPA of no less than 2.8; and must complete an online registration form complete with letters of recommendation. The application can be accessed at:

https://www.applyweb.com/apply/wcgrad/menu.html

The program offers a limited number of scholarships, awarded to students based on academic criteria, including a part-time graduate assistantship and the Irene G. Shur Graduate Scholarship.

For more information about West Chester University’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Master of Arts program, please consult our website:

http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/holocaust/

Or contact the director of the program: Dr. Jonathan C. Friedman
Professor of History Wayne Hall 425

West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383

Please make a note of Summer Institute, June 25-29 - "Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths" - constituting a two-day conference (June 25-26) on the United States followed by three days of intensive break-outs. I hope you and your students will join us for this unusual and timely confab.

Dennis


	Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths Summer Institute Kean University \| June 25-29, 2017 Kean University's Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocides Studies Program invites scholars, practitioners and human rights advocates to a multi-day summer institute in June, titled Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths. Sunday-Monday, June 25-26 Conference to Explore Large-Scale Violence in the United States Tuesday-Thursday, June 27-29 Working Groups to Examine Societies Around the World Participants of the summer institute will explore tested and contested means of dealing with collective violence and atrocities against vulnerable communities, including crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Non-state, civil-society alternatives that could secure and/or transform future societies will also be examined. For more information or to register, visit grad.kean.edu/mahgs-conference. Discounts are available for those attending both segments of the summer institute. Questions? Contact Dennis Klein, Ph.D., director of Kean's M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, at (908) 737-0256 or dklein@kean.edu. Co-organized by Kean University's Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, and the Cardozo Law School’s Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, with support by Kean University's Human Rights Institute, Jewish Studies Program and Office of Academic Affairs.