Greensboro College Presents 10th Annual Schleunes Lecture April 19
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College presents the 10th Annual Schleunes Lecture on the Holocaust and genocide, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus.
The event is free and the public is invited.
The speaker will be Richard F. Crane, professor of history at Benedictine College, who formerly taught at Greensboro College for 16 years. Crane is founding director of the Schleunes Lecture and the college’s Levy-Loewenstein Holocaust Collection, housed in the James Addison Jones Library.
Crane’s lecture is titled, “French Catholics and Jews on the Eve of the Holocaust.” A question-and-answer period will follow. Afterward, visitors are invited to a reception in Lea Center in Main Building, adjacent to the chapel.
Crane was the 2006-2007 Hoffberger Family Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2010 he published his second book, “Passion of Israel: Jacques Maritain, Catholic Conscience, and the Holocaust.” One reviewer praised the book’s “robust theological and ecclesiastical flavor” and added, “Crane’s interweaving of the secular and the sacred is impressive. His story of Maritain will be challenging to Jews and Christians alike and deserves their attention.”
Crane’s articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as The Catholic Historical Review, Patterns of Prejudice, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, Theological Studies, The Journal of Church and State, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Crane holds a B.A. from Eastern Connecticut State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut.
The Schleunes Lecture is presented annually through the generosity of Richard and Jane Levy of Greensboro in honor of the eminent Holocaust scholar Dr. Karl Schleunes, now retired from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an adjunct faculty member at Greensboro College.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and four master’s degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features an 18-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities.
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