Steven Alan Carr, Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne
Beyond Triumph of the Will:
Teaching Holocaust Media Literacy in the Age of YouTube
Nov 24, 2010; Paterson 236;Time: 11:30-2:25 am
Classroom presentation open to the public.
Professor Carr’s talk is sponsored by the Zellkovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, the College of the Humanities, the School of Communication and Journalism, Film Studies program in the School for Studies in Arts and Culture, and the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity of Alan Solomon, MD
Steven Alan Carr is Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne where he also serves as Graduate Program Director and Co-Director of the recent established IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Professor Carr was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002-2003 and is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History to World War II, New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. His current project explores the response of the American film industry to the growing public awareness of the Holocaust and received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002.