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Campus Conversation: Professors Discuss Anne Frank and Her Diary
Campus Conversation: Professors Discuss Anne Frank and Her Diary
Panel discusses how Anne Frank can help us think more clearly about childhood trauma, religious freedom and the holocaust. 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7.
April 6, 2010
Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Va. â€" Virginia Wesleyan College, in partnership with WHRO-TV, hosts †Anne Frank: Lessons for a New Century,†at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, in the Boyd East Dining Hall on the College campus.
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How can scholarship today â€" in history, literature, law, and religious studies â€" illuminate Anne Frank and, more significantly, how can Anne Frank help us think more clearly? About childhood trauma and adolescence? About religious freedom around the globe? About the importance of narrative? About the holocaust and about persecution today?
The evening will begin with a 10-minute clip from the new film, The Diary of Anne Frank, acclaimed for its historical accuracy and its insights. The panel discussion will feature four Virginia Wesleyan professors: Dr. Michael Panitz, adjunct instructor of religion; Dr. Sara Sewell, associate professor of history; Dr. Sue Larkin, assistant professor of English and Dr. Eric Mazur, Gloria and David Furman Endowed Associate Professor of Judaic Studies. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Craig Wansink, professor of religious studies.
This event is free and open to the public. WHRO-TV will premiere the entire film, The Diary of Anne Frank, on Holocaust Remembrance Day at 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 11.
For more information, contact Dr. Craig Wansink at 757.455.3406 or cwansink@vwu.edu.
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