Seminar Freedom from Fear Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg
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VRIJWARING VAN VREES. De Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg organiseert op
1 en 2 september een speciaal seminar met het thema Freedom from Fear oftewel Vrijwaring van Vrees. Op beide dagen vinden lezingen plaats door de gerenommeerde socioloog en antropoloog Professor Peter Rose en zijn (van oorsprong Nederlandse) vrouw, Dr Hedy Rose.
De lezingen vormen het startsein voor een reeks van activiteiten die zijn gepland voorafgaand aan de uitreiking van de Four Freedoms Awards in Middelburg volgend jaar. De onderscheidingen die zijn vernoemd naar de Amerikaanse president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, worden elke twee jaar gegeven aan mensen die zich door hun inzet hebben verbonden aan de vier vrijheden, te weten: de vrijheid van meningsuiting, de vrijheid van godsdienst, de vrijwaring van gebrek en de vrijwaring van vrees. In 2004 werd de Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award toegekend aan secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties, Kofi Annan.
Gedurende het hele academisch jaar zal de Roosevelt Academy, samen met Hogeschool Zeeland, Provincie Zeeland en anderen, aandacht besteden aan het thema 'Freedom from Fear': zowel binnen de RA colleges als in de lezingen.
De lezingen op 1 en 2 september van Professor Peter Rose en Dr Hedy Rose, die in het Engels worden gegeven, zullen zich richten op het lot van vluchtelingen, integratie beleid en hoe "gewone" mensen meedoen aan de stigmatisering van degenen die "anders zijn".
Ze zijn vrij toegankelijk en iedereen is welkom. Verdere informatie is beschikbaar op de website van de Roosevelt Academy
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Program
Thursday 1 September
4-6 pm: Prof. Peter Rose - Raadzaal, Stadhuis, Middelburg
"In Whom They Trust: Altruism, Expedience, and the Politics of Rescue" Focusing on the dependency of the dispossessed, and on the making and implementing of refugee policy, the actions of governments, voluntary agencies, and private citizens will be considered, with special attention to the period of the Roosevelt Administration in the U.S. While most of the emphasis will be on the dark days of World War II, references will be made to more recent crises.
8-10 pm: Dr Hedy Rose - Burgerzaal, Stadhuis, Middelburg
"Bearing Witness: Reflections on Loss, Dependence, and Survival" Bearing Witness - a crucial element in the process of validation - especially on behalf of some six million human beings who never had a voice. It is loss and grief without end. So how does one construct a life in the midst of death? And is that possible
without help? What does it mean to survive? At what cost, and to whom? These and other questions arising from the convocation address will attempt to integrate the events and experiences of this period with the endless dilemmas and complexities that they presented then and now.
Friday 2 September
4-6 pm: Prof Peter Rose - Raadzaal, Stadhuis, Middelburg
"Melting Pots or Seething Cauldrons? The Challenge of Diversity" Racial, ethnic and religious diversity is the reality in most modern industrial societies today. In this session, while the emphasis will be on the experience of what Walt Whitman called "a nation of nations," and on various approaches to coping with diversity in America, including assimilation, amalgamation, and accommodation, some comparisons and contrasts in ideology and practice will be made between the U.S. and various countries in Europe.
8-10 pm: Dr Hedy Rose - Burgerzaal, Stadhuis, Middelburg
"Brown Eyes and Yellow Stars: >From Stereotypes to Stigma" In the late 1930s and early 1940s many brown-eyed people Europe had to wear a yellow star. In the 1960s some blue-eyed American school children were told they could put collars on their brown-eyed peers. That way they might be recognized as brown-eyed more easily and thus be avoided, or ridiculed, or worse, ".....for they were not as clean and not as smart and not as nice as blue-eyed people.” Fourth-graders as well as adults seem to find themselves easily manipulated to follow such reasoning and so to justify negative behavior. How does this happen? What transforms the civilized person into something lower than imaginable? Was the Holocaust an aberration? And where do we go from here?
Biographies (in English):
Hedwig C. Rose was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1933. She came to the United States in 1947. She attended the University of Rochester and Cornell University, from which she received a B.A. in 1958. She has a master's degree from Smith College and a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. In addition to her work in teacher preparation, she is a specialist in the fields of comparative schooling, the philosophy and sociology of education, and the legal rights of teachers and students.
Currently a Five College Associate, Hedy Rose has taught at every level -- from preschool through university. She has served on the faculties of Smith College, the University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, where she was a member of the School of Social Science and headed Education and Child Studies, and Wesleyan University where for seven years she taught and directed the Educational Studies Program. She has conducted research on symbols of patriotism and chauvinism, the educational philosophy of John Dewey, and the civil rights and responsibilities of teachers, and has lectured on these subjects and on her personal experiences -- "Living the Life of Anne Frank" -- in many parts of this country as well as in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, and the Netherlands. She has been a Fellow at the Ligurian Center for Arts and Letters in Bogliasco, Italy, and has recently spent time in the archives of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University in California, working on a memoir of her childhood in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II.
Peter I. Rose was born in Rochester, New York, in 1933. He received his B.A. from Syracuse University in 1954 and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1959. He is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where, for more than 30 years he was director of the American Studies Diploma Program for international graduate students. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
He has been a visiting professor at numerous American universities, including Clark, Colorado, UCLA, Yale, and Harvard, and served as a Fulbright Professor at Leicester University in the U.K., Flinders University in Australia, the Kyoto Summer Seminar in Japan, and the University of Vienna. A frequent lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, from which he received the University Medal in 1994, he has also lectured in more than 40 other countries.
Best known for his book They and We (Random House 1963; McGraw Hill, 5th ed., 1997; Paradigm Publishers, 6th ed, in press), he is also the author of The Subject is Race (Oxford University Press, 1967), Strangers in Their Midst (Richwood Press, 1977), Mainstream and Margins (Transaction Books, 1983), Tempest-Tost (Oxford, 1997), and Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space (Swallow Press, 2003) and co-author, with Hans Adriaansens, of Over Vreemdeling en Vluchteling (Gianotten, The Netherlands, 1983), and is editor of a number of volumes on race, immigration and refugee policy. His latest book is The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
He has published a number of scholarly and "extracurricular" articles and over 200 reviews and review essays in sociological and historical journals and in the pages of the Christian Science Monitor, Present Tense, Newsday, Congress Monthly, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Hampshire Life. With a secondary career as a travel journalist, he is a frequent contributor to the web-based magazines, Travelworld International and SoGoNow, and is working on a new book on special destinations, tentatively titled, East to Eden.
Professor Rose has long been active in professional organizations. He was first chair of the International Advisory Board of University College Utrecht. He remains involved in that institution and the newer Roosevelt Academy located in Middelburg, The Netherlands, and in various projects of the Salzburg Seminar in Austria.
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22.8.2005
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