Note: The Annual Report should provide a summary of the major activities and initiatives of the school/college and its departments.  It is not intended to be a compendium.

A-Mission

To promote public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides; to encourage and support scholarship, research, and teaching about the Holocaust and genocide; and to promote public participation in efforts to confront contemporary genocide as it occurs.

B-Executive Summary

The Institute made important strides in the past year.  We hosted the first meeting of our Advisory Board, launched an Internet presence on both the web as well as Facebook, and sponsored a series of high-profile events on the IPFW campus.  These included hosting world-renowned documentary filmmaker Rex Bloomstein, perhaps best known for his film The Longest Hatred about the history of anti-Semitism; and organizing and hosting a half-day symposium in conjunction with the U.S. Holocaust Museum on how to teach the Holocaust effectively.  We also secured approximately $3000 in external funding to help subsidize future lectures and events.  These include a visit from filmmaker Sandra Schulberg in September, who will be screening a restored version of a documentary on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals directed by her father Stuart Schulberg; and a visit in November from Wilfried Agricola, curator of the Shoah Film Collection, an archive of short films and videos dealing with some aspect of the Holocaust.  This screening would be a U.S. premiere.  We have requested an additional $7000 to cover costs related to these events.  However, we intend to offset these costs with the $3000 we have secured in external funding from Temple Achduth Vesholom.

1. To promote public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides

Launched new Facebook site d.pr/qeG4 to promote Institute events in August 2011.

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Launched Institute website ipfw.edu/ihgs in July 2010 to help promote the Center's mission.

2. To encourage and support scholarship, research, and teaching about the Holocaust and genocide

Organized and hosted half-day symposium in conjunction with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Belfer First Step program, a national outreach initiative to help beginning K-12 teachers find ways to cover the Holocaust effectively.  The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the premiere institutions in the world devoted to the memorialization of the Holocaust.

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3. To promote public participation in efforts to confront contemporary genocide as it occurs

Met with representatives of Temple Achduth Vesholom in April 2011 to successfully secure approximately $3000 in external funding from them.  This will bring two internationally acclaimed speakers to campus.  In September, producer-director Sandra Schulberg will be in Fort Wayne to talk about her restoration of her father Stuart Schulberg's documentary on the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, Nuremberg: Its Lessons and Legacies (1948).  Until now, the film was never given a theatrical release in the U.S.  The event is being co-sponsored by Congregation Achduth Vesholom and Fort Wayne Cinema Center.  This will be one of the first 35mm screenings of the film in Indiana.  The other speaker we are bringing is Wilfried Agricola.  He is curator of the Shoah Film Collection, an ongoing archive of short film and video work related to the Holocaust.  This will be the U.S. premiere for this collection.  We will be screening these films over two nights in early November.  This is also co-sponsored with Achduth Vesholom and Cinema Center.

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1. To promote public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides

2.To encourage and support scholarship, research, and teaching about the Holocaust and genocide

As part of Carr's in-residence fellowship at the American Jewish Archives in May, he gave a lecture on "Hollywood, Nazism, and Globalization: Popular Culture and the Birth of the Holocaust Film, 1933-1945."  The American Jewish Archives Loewenstein-WienerResearch Fellowship Seminar.  Cincinnati OH, 16 May 2011.  This was an internationally competitive fellowship.

Carr gave a series of three invited lectures and presentations at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada in November 2010.

Carr presented Beyond Triumph of the Will: Teaching Holocaust Media Literacy in the Age of YouTube - Presentation to Belfer First Step Midwest Regional Conference, Fort Wayne IN, 15 Apr 2011.  Rev. of presentation to Belfer Next Step Indianapolis Regional Conference, Indianapolis IN, 29 June 2010.

Carr on panel discussion with Stuart Klawans and Alan Mintz, Rutgers U, New Brunswick NJ, 11 Mar. 2010.  Please note that Klawans is the film critic for The Nation; and Mintz is a nationally-known authority on Holocaust and popular culture.  I also served on a panel earlier in the day where I spoke with New Jersey K-12 teachers from across the state.  Rutgers invited me to participate.

3. To promote public participation in efforts to confront contemporary genocide as it occurs

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1. To promote public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides

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Bring Wilfried Agricola to Fort Wayne.  He is curator of the Shoah Film Collection, an ongoing archive of short film and video work related to the Holocaust.  This will be the U.S. premiere for this collection.  We will be screening these films over two nights in early November.  This is also co-sponsored with Achduth Vesholom and Cinema Center. 

2.To encourage and support scholarship, research, and teaching about the Holocaust and genocide

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3. To promote public participation in efforts to confront contemporary genocide as it occurs

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1. New Position Requests

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2. Equipment Requests

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3. Space/Remodeling Requests

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4. Other new funding requests, including lab materials, S&E, etc.

S&E to host speakers and events on campus

$7000; will seek to subsidize half of this amount with match from Achduth Vesholom.

Hosting speakers and events provides important outreach to the community and gives the Institute a greater profile with potential donors.

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