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1 #HolocaustEducationMTL Program at a glance Wednesday June 27th, 2018 – Teaching Difficult Subjects and Focus on the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s Exhibitions Time Museum Conference Room Room #2 Room #3 8:30 am Seminar registration – Gelber Conference Centre 9:00 am Welcome – Gelber Conference Room 9:15 am Presentation – English Of Monsters and Common Men: A Brief History of the Holocaust Dr. Erin Corber, University of Dalhousie 10:15 am Coffee Break – Hall 10:30 am Visit – French Workshop – Workshop – Montreal English English Holocaust Exploring the Approaching Museum Experiences of Holocaust Permanent Holocaust History: 2 Exhibition (A1) Survivors Postwar Guidelines and through the Uses Resources of Testimony Rebecca Dupas, Michelle Fishman, United States Neuberger Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Education Centre Museum (A3) (A2) 11:30 am Visit – English Exhibition United Against Genocide: Understand, Question, Prevent – FCJA Entrance Hall (A4) 12:00 pm Lunch (included) 1:00 pm Visit – English Workshop – Montreal French Holocaust Explorer l’histoire Museum à travers l’étude Permanent d’artefacts Exhibition (A4) Cornélia Strickler and Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Montreal Holocaust Museum (A1) #HolocaustEducationMTL Program at a glance Wednesday June 27th, 2018 – Teaching Difficult Subjects and Focus on the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s Exhibitions (continued) Time Museum Conference Room Room #2 Room #3 2:00 pm Visit – English Visit – French Montreal Exhibition United Against Genocide: Holocaust Understand, Question, Prevent – Museum Federation CJA Entrance Hall (A1) Permanent Exhibition (A4) 2:30 pm Workshop – French Workshop – Workshop – Aborder les sujets English French sensibles avec les Exploring History Pourquoi et élèves through Artefacts comment enseigner Sivane Hirsch, Andrea Shaulis, l’histoire de Université du Québec Montreal l’Holocauste? à Trois-Rivières (A5) Holocaust Cornélia Strickler, Museum (A4) Montreal Holocaust Museum (A6) 3:30 pm Coffee Break – Hall 3 4:00 pm Workshop – English Workshop – Workshop – Rationalization and French English Conformity during the Connecter passé Learning from the Holocaust et présent Holocaust: Rebecca Dupas, Dafina Savic, Strategies for United States Montreal Connecting the Holocaust Memorial Holocaust Holocaust to Museum (A7) Museum (A8) Different Genocides Clint Curle and Graham Lowes, Canadian Museum for Human Rights (A9) 5:00 pm End of the first day 7:00 pm Public Lecture – English New Dimensions in Testimony Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation #HolocaustEducationMTL Program at a glance Thursday June 28th, 2018 – Using Testimonies and Exploring Human Rights & Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Time Museum Conference Room Room #2 Room #3 9:30 am Workshop – French Workshop – English Workshop – Enfants cachés, Story Matters: Using English identité et Holocauste : Testimony-Based Teaching the survivre en marge de Activities Across the History of the la catastrophe Curriculum Holocaust with Catherine Person, Kori Street, USC Video Testimonies Azrieli Foundation Shoah Foundation Cornélia Strickler, (A10) (A11) Montreal Holocaust Museum (A12) 10:30 am Coffee Break – Hall 10:45 am Survivor Testimony Survivor – English Testimony - French 12:00 pm Lunch (included) 1:00 pm Presentation – English 4 Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit through Transsystemic Learning Marie Battiste, University of Saskatchewan 2:00 pm Coffee Break – Hall 2:15 pm Workshop – English Workshop – English Workshop – It’s Time: Why the Tebwewin / The Truth French History of Residential Anita Tenasco, Décolonisation par l’éducation Schools Must Be Kitigan Zibi Mélanie Lumsden, Included in our Anishinabeg Cultural Mikana (A15) Classrooms Centre (A14) Jane Hubbard, Legacy of Hope Foundation (A13) 3:15 pm All participants leave for the McCord Museum 4:00 pm McCord Museum: A choice of two bilingual visits between Wearing our Identity – The First Peoples Collection (V1) and Shalom Montreal (V2) 6:00 pm McCord Museum: Cocktail for seminar participants 8:00 pm End of the second day #HolocaustEducationMTL Program at a glance Friday June 29th, 2018 – Local Dimensions of the Holocaust and Using New Technologies Time Museum Conference Room Room #2 Room #3 9:00 am Presentation – English “No Jews Wanted”: Canada and the Holocaust Paula Draper 10:00 am Experience – English New Dimensions in Testimony Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation 11:00 am Debriefing – English Debriefing – Seminar Evaluation French Seminar Evaluation 12:00 pm Lunch (not included) 1:30 pm Museum of Jewish Montreal: A choice of two bilingual visits Rabbis, Writers & Radicals (V3) or In the Shadow of the Mountain – Montreal Reimagined (V4) 3:00 pm Conclusion of the third day and of the seminar 5 #HolocaustEducationMTL Program in detail Wednesday June 27th, 2018 – Teaching Difficult Subjects and Focus on the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s Exhibitions 9:00 am – Of Monsters and Common Men: A Brief History of the Holocaust Dr. Erin Corber, Inaugural Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair of Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University – Presentation in English – Gelber Conference Room This presentation provides a sweeping overview of the history of the Holocaust, the “systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” The presentation will cover the rise of nationalism and the racial state, the Second World War, the turn to mass murder, and the ghettos and camp systems in Eastern Europe. We will also explore stories and contexts of state and individual collaboration, and of individual and community resistance and survival. While Hitler and the Third Reich were pivotal to genocide, the Holocaust would have been impossible without the tacit approval of bystanders and active participation of collaborators in the enormous machine of murder. 10:30 am – Exploring the Experiences of Holocaust Survivors Postwar through 6 the Uses of Testimony (A2) Michelle Fishman, Education Coordinator, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre – Workshop in English – Room #2 This interactive workshop grapples with the question “How can we use the immigration and integration experiences of Holocaust survivors to connect with the students of today?” There are many entry points and parallels between their adaptation to Canadian society and the challenges and obstacles newcomers face today. There is much to be learned through their strength, resilience and even failures in new countries after they faced genocide at the hand of the Nazis. Using survivor testimony based in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and short films curated by the Neuberger, Michelle Fishman will discuss various methods for teaching about the postwar experience of Holocaust survivors, their integration experiences into life in Canada, and what constitutes a good recorded testimony for classroom use. #HolocaustEducationMTL Wednesday June 27th, 2018 – Teaching Difficult Subjects and Focus on the Montreal Holocaust Museum’s Exhibitions (continued) 10:30 am - Approaching Holocaust History: Guidelines and Resources (A3) Rebecca Dupas, Youth and Community Initiatives Coordinator, United States Holocaust Memorial – Workshop in English – Room #3 Participants will explore the high level of sensitivity and keen awareness needed for teaching the complexities of the Holocaust. This workshop offers reflective approaches for effective teaching and includes resources from the exhibition as well as annual teaching workshops at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The guidelines and strategies shared illustrate a number of best practices for educating others about how and why the Holocaust happened. 1:00 pm – Explorer l’histoire à travers l’étude d’artefacts (A1 – with visits) Cornélia Strickler, Education Coordinator, and Marie-Blanche Fourcade, Head of Collections and Exhibitions, Montreal Holocaust Museum – Workshop in French – Room #2 In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the educational potential of using historical objects in the classroom. After an analysis of their experience with the Museum’s permanent exhibit, 7 teachers will have the unique opportunity to discover artifacts that are generally not available to the public and whose stories will be presented by the Head of Collections and Exhibitions. 2:30 pm – Aborder les sujets sensibles avec les élèves (A5) Sivane Hirsch, Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Université du Québec à Trois- Rivières – Workshop in French – Gelber Conference Room Sensitive subjects are complex, affecting values and social understandings and are subject to social debate, as they are related to our attitudes about living with diversity in harmony. They arouse strong emotions and touch the borders of sensitivity, discretion, propriety and privacy. The workshop will adapt the pedagogical approach favouring the teacher’s own prior position-taking on the theme to be developed with students, to Holocaust education, as a means of preparation. 2:30 pm – Exploring History through Artefacts (A4 – with visits) Andrea Shaulis, Registrar, Montreal Holocaust Museum – Workshop in English – Room #2 In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the educational potential of using historical objects in the classroom. After an analysis of their experience in the Museum’s permanent exhibit, teachers will have the unique opportunity to discover artifacts that are generally not available to the public and whose stories will be presented by the Registrar. #HolocaustEducationMTL Wednesday