The Tenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Northwestern University, will consist of two plenary addresses, up to three roundtables, ten to fifteen panels, and up to eight workshops relating to recent advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies and pointing the way toward further research.

Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers or entire panels BY OCTOBER 30, 2007. Proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Professor Alan Steinweis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (e-mail) and Prof. Doris Bergen, University of Toronto (e-mail). The Program Committee will evaluate all proposals and inform applicants of regarding inclusion on the conference program by December 31, 2007.

Guidelines and procedures for submitting workshop proposals are attached. Please note that the deadline for these proposals is the same as that for panels and papers, October 30, 2007, but that the addressees are different: workshop proposals should be sent to BOTH Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming (e-mail) and Professor Donald Schilling (e-mail).

Lessons and Legacies 2008 - Workshop Program

Guidelines for Workshop Program Submissions

The Lessons and Legacies workshop program provides conference participants with the opportunity to address significant issues, problems, and questions that they encounter in their research and in the classroom. Up to eight topical workshops are accepted, and will run simultaneously during two separate time slots. Each workshop is of 90 minutes duration. Workshops will generally have two or more facilitators. Facilitators have broad latitude to design their particular workshop in a manner appropriate to the topic; however, it is our hope that at least half of the allotted time be available for questions, discussion, and sharing among workshop participants. Citing or sharing actual materials used for research or in the classroom is especially helpful. Workshop proposals should be sent to the workshop program committee co-chairs.

In addition to the eight topical workshops, Lessons and Legacies will again organize two "Author Meets Critic" and two "Author Meets Teacher" sessions.

For the "Author meets Critic" sessions, we would like to feature books by HEF alumni that have appeared in print since the November 2006 Claremont McKenna conference. The Workshop Planning Committee will group books thematically, so that each session features, for example, three monographs on a similar topic and across a variety of disciplines. The authors will be available to discuss their work with conference participants and one another, resulting, we hope, in productive discussion and debate on the most recently published work in the field.

For those of you have published monographs since the last meeting of the Lessons and Legacies conference (i.e., books appearing in print between November 2006 and November 2008), please forward this information to the workshop program committee co-chairs by October 30, 2007. The members of the Workshop Planning Committee will compile this information and present it to the Lessons and Legacies 2008 Program Committee.

For the "Author meets Teacher" sessions, the Program Committee will plan two sessions featuring those books frequently used in the classroom. We would ask that you send us your top 2 to 3 picks for engaging your students. Please send your list of "best teaching texts" to the workshop program committee co-chairs by October 30, 2007. The Workshop Planning Committee will assemble sessions based on the books you use most regularly. If possible, the authors will attend the workshop session. We hope this will be an opportunity to exchange "tips" on what has worked best for you to convey the lessons and meaning of the Holocaust to your students.

Submissions should be sent via email to: Suzanne Brown-Fleming (e-mail) and Don Schilling (e-mail), Workshop Program Committee Co-Chairs AND to the Holocaust Educational Foundation (e-mail). A print duplicate copy should be submitted to: