Pathways of Persecution: Dispossession and Violence in Europe and on the Great Plains

Monday, October 14

Teaching Panel:
“Challenging Topics in the Classroom:

College Perspectives for All Educators”

Monday, October 15, 6-9 PM, @ Gerdin 0145

🍕 Free pizza will be provided for attendees

Faculty from various disciplines and institutions in the region will discuss the trials, successes, and strategies of teaching topics, themes, and events that college students may find challenging.

Panel Participants

Stephanie Jones, Grinnell (on teaching Black history and social justice)

Lina-Maria Murillo, University of Iowa (on teaching women, gender, and sexuality studies; latino/a studies; and social justice)

Jeremy Best, Iowa State University, (on teaching Holocaust studies and social justice)

Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University (on the current climate for teaching hard history in Iowa)

Moderator: Kathleen Hilliard, Iowa State University

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Tuesday, October 15

Roundtable:

"Teaching Lasting Hate: Persecution and Education in the Modern Era"

Tuesday, October 16, 3:30-5:00 PM @ the Stepatorium, Student Innovation Center

Systems of persecution require perpetrators and their collaborators to know who to target. Communities must be defined; an essential part of this process is the transmission through formal and informal education of the “knowledge” that others and differentiates the targeted communities. In a moderated discussion, the speakers will discuss ways in which knowledge of difference is and has been produced and delivered as part of the persecution of Native Peoples of the U.S. and Canada, Jewish people, African Americans,  and people with disabilities. Drawing on research and teaching experience at the college level, the gathered experts will compare and contrast the ways educational tools have been used to train persecutors to separate and attack minoritized groups in the United States, Europe, and beyond.

Roundtable Participants

William Carter, Iowa State University

Sarah Dees, Iowa State University

Patricia Heberer Rice, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ashley Howard, University of Iowa

Moderator: Christina Gish Hill, Iowa State University

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Keynote Panel:

"Criminalizing Difference in the Holocaust and Beyond:

Jews, Roma, African Americans, and Latinx People"

Tuesday, October 15, 6-7:30 PM @ the Sun Room, Memorial Student Union

View the ISU Lectures event page here.

In order to subjugate or in some cases destroy racial, ethnic, and religious minorities,  a state or governing body often criminalizes whole communities through  the mobilization of legal and societal discrimination. "Criminalizing Difference in the Holocaust and Beyond: Jews, Roma, and Native Peoples of the U.S. and Canada" brings together experts on criminalization and state discrimination against European Jews, Roma communities and individuals, and Native Peoples of the U.S. and Canada that occurred during overlapping periods.  

As part of a moderated panel, the speakers will discuss the unique and common characteristics of criminalization and its role in racial prejudice and violence. While discussing specific marginalized groups - Jews, Roma, and Native Peoples in the U.S. and Canada, the panelists will help describe the process of creating racialized “others” through legal and societal discrimination. This interdisciplinary study will explore the persecution experienced by these communities at the hands of their governments and by exclusionary state laws.

Keynote Panelists

Brian Behnken, Iowa State University

Kierra Crago-Schneider, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chelsi West Ohueri, University of Texas, Austin

Moderator: Jeremy Best, Iowa State University