The Genocide Education & Prevention Project (GEAPP) is a collaboration between Montclair State University and George Mason University dedicated to researching human rights issues and identifying innovative practices and methodologies that focus on genocide education, genocide prevention, and links between the two. From July 24-26, 2017 at Montclair State University, scholars and lawyers will present research on human rights and genocide for discussion. The research presentations are open to the public and the conference is an opportunity to bring together higher education humanities, law, and secondary education.
Given the NJ mandate to integrate genocide and holocaust education into K-12 curriculum, the MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project is extending a unique invitation to secondary school teachers as well as MSU undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to attending conferences sessions, teachers and students may apply for an all-expense-paid visit to the United Nations Headquarters and dinner with conference scholars in New York city on July 25. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, space is limited, and preference is given to applicants who indicate how the opportunity will benefit their professional career: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M52JBCV. Please see the attached/embedded flyer.
For more information regarding the application process, contact Dr. Zoë Burkholder | burkholderz@montclair.edu.
Research presentations will be in the MSU Machuga Heights Multipurpose Room, located at Webster Road, Little Falls, NJ 07424. The presentation schedule is July 24: 9am-4pm; July 25: 9am-11am; and July 26: 9am-12pm. The keynote speaker is scheduled for July 24 at 9am, Jocelyn Gergen Kestanbausm, JD. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Director of the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, and the Faculty Director of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights. Please see the attached/embedded flyer. For more information regarding GEAPP contact Dr. Kate E. Temoney, Assistant Professor of Religion | temoneyk@montclair.edu or consult the GEAPP website, which will include a detailed schedule: https://www.montclair.edu/chss/religion/meetings-and-events/geapp/.
Supported by the Montclair State University (MSU) Department of Religion | MSU Residence Life
MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project | NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
