MCC’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project is one of our institution’s leading resources on human rights education. Through its numerous educational events, library holdings, and outreach to the MCC and surrounding communities, the Project continues to amass both resources for educators and a core group of faculty, staff, and students who recognize the importance of human rights education. We invite faculty who are interested in the incorporation of human rights topics into their curricula to join us for a workshop that will 1) provide information about human rights education and its growing significance, 2) assist with the incorporation of human rights topics in MCC courses, and 3) educate about the topics to be examined in this academic year’s Voices of Vigilance program, at which we will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide and examine why and when the term genocide is applied to mass violence, when it isn’t, and how this choice is influenced by language, politics, geography, and culture. Lunch will be served and participants will receive a teaching packet and a copy of Black Dog of Night: A Memoir, by Peter Balakian, our keynote speaker for this year’s Voices of Vigilance program. Please RSVP to Sharon Scurlock (<"mailto:sscurlock@monroecc.edu"> or x3321) by December 19th.
Faculty Human Rights Workshop
Monday, January 5th
11am-2pm, Forum (3-130)
Regina Fabbro
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
12/09/2014 |