IAC 3813: Global Religions and Community Engagement Course

Spring 2016 Wednesday 9:00AM-12:00AM

His family lived in Germany for 450 years. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, antisemitism became the law of the land and Jewish families like the Kohns were no longer welcome. Then, on November 9th and 10th of 1938, eleven year old Herbert witnessed Kristallnacht - the "Night of Broken Glass" - which is widely regarded as the dawn of the Holocaust. Mr. Kohn will tell his remarkable story of survival and then answer question.

http://thebreman.org/Events/Bearing-Witness-Herbert-Kohn

Day of Event - Guided tours of our Holocaust Gallery will be given from Noon - 2:00 PM. Mr. Kohn will be telling his remarkable story beginning at 2:00 PM.
Free Admission & parking to the 2014-2015 Bearing Witness series is provided through a generous gift from The Sara Giles Moore Foundation.
When: November 2, 2014 @ 2 pm
Where: William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
1440 Spring Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 (Across 18th Street from the Center for Puppetry Arts)

*Population Health 

*Culture and Religion 

*Urban and Community 

*Gender

We are a vigorous, diverse, productive, and collaborative research department, also known for excellent mentoring. With an average of $250,000 per faculty member in grant funding in the last three years, our active research agendas provide abundant opportunities for graduate students, in an apprenticeship model that involves students working with professors on research immediately and continually. We are also committed to ensuring that students acquire mastery of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This is an intentionally small program, with entering cohorts of 4-5 students, all of whom receive full and generous funding for five years.

Our current graduate students are the recipients of many prestigious external and internal fellowships, are actively presenting at national conferences, and are publishing with our faculty.

Rice offers several resources that will provide graduate students with exciting research opportunities: The Kinder Institute for Urban Research houses research programs in Race, Ethnicity, & Culture; Urban Health; and the Houston Education Research Consortium which is an unique research collaboration with our Houston Independent School District. The Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance supports international and domestic research on religion. The Hobby Center for the Study of Texas generates analyses of key social and public policy issues, and our Postdoctoral Fellows Program, currently nine postdocs strong, provides graduate students additional collaborative and mentoring opportunities.

For more detailed information, please visit us at: http://sociology.rice.edu. And of course, we would be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Our program emphasizes intensive mentoring from faculty; strong mixed-methods training; and research experience from day one.

Docents at The Breman Museum teach the lessons of the Holocaust to over 12,000 school children annually. Docent candidates will train with current docents to learn how to lead school children on guided tours of our Holocaust Gallery. No prior experience or background in history is required.

The 2014 Docent Candidate Course will begin on August 19, 2014 and candidates will meet twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 5 weeks. If you are interested, please apply online or contact Jennifer Reid at 404-870-1632 or by email at jreid@thebreman.org.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Held at The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
441 Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta
This event is free and open to the public.
Click HERE to register. Registration is required.

This exhibition focuses on the ongoing struggle for civil and human rights in the years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The documents on display include letters, photographs and flyers promoting meetings and protests, gathered from the SCLC archive housed in Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library(MARBL).

Exhibition co-curators are Carol Anderson, associate professor of African American studies and human rights historian; Sarah Quigley, manuscript archivist and former SCLC project archivist; and Michael Ra-Shon Hall, a doctoral candidate in Emory's Institute for the Liberal Arts.

"The papers reveal the extent of organizing people and communities around issues of healthcare, criminal justice, education, voters' rights, fair employment- those are things we understand to be essential to quality of life, regardless of who you are," Anderson says.

Opening events on Friday, Feb. 22 include:

• Noon-2 pm: Lecture, discussion and book signing with Dorothy Cotton, SCLC's former education director (1960-1968) and author of "If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement." The book also will be available for sale at the event. Jones Room, Woodruff Library Level 3. 
• 6-8 pm: Opening celebration for exhibition. Speakers will include Congressman John Lewis; current SCLC leaders C.T. Vivian, Charles Steele Jr., and Bernard Lafayette (board president); and Dorothy Cotton. Schatten Gallery and Jones Room, Woodruff Library Level 3. 

Parking for the Robert W. Woodruff Library
Fishburne deck parking and walking directions: bit.ly/fishburneparking