Category: Ackerman Center

Dr. S. Deborah Kang (left) and Dr. Amy Kerner (right) are among the four new tenure-track faculty who have joined the School of Arts and Humanities this fall. Dr. S. Deborah Kang is an associate professor of history and Fellow of the Anne Stark and Chester Watson Professorship of History. Kang studies immigration issues relating […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies has released a series of podcast episodes in which three long-time University of Texas at Dallas professors reflect on their memories of World War II. The series, called “Portraits of World War II,” features Dr. Rainer Schulte, professor of arts and humanities and the Katherine R. Cecil Professor in […]

The School of Arts and Humanities would like to honor and thank three long-time faculty members who are retiring. Milton Cohen retired May 31 and Fred Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth will retire Aug. 31. Fred Turner Dr. Fred Turner is a poet, a cultural critic, a playwright, a philosopher of science, an interdisciplinary scholar, an […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies  has announced the establishment of a new endowed chair  at the Center. Long-time friends and supporters of the Center, Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett, plan to establish an endowment to create the Miriam Lewis Barnett Chair for studies related to the Holocaust, genocide and/or human rights. The new […]

Follow along to explore Holocaust-related topics during the time of our shared new virtual realities. New episodes available on Sundays. Episode one and two are now streaming on Spotify.

“Painful Remembrance” is the subject of the Winter 2020 issue of Athenaeum Review, with five articles exploring how difficult memories are shaped and passed on through literature, the arts, and public monuments. The special issue is guest-edited by Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for […]

By Office of Media Relations | May 30, 2019 Dr. David Patterson, professor of literature and history and Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, has been appointed to the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. The commission was established 10 years ago to ensure that resources about the Holocaust and other genocides are available to students, educators and […]

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth has an endless supply of stories to tell. Some are heartbreaking, and others are full of mirth. This is one of the latter. The tale begins in 1962 when Ozsváth and her late husband, Dr. Istvan Ozsváth, stepped out for supper with some friends in Hamburg, Germany. When they arrived at the […]

The UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies will welcome some of the world’s foremost Holocaust scholars, theologians and survivors for the 48th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches on March 3-5, 2018. The collection of experts will share their findings in hopes that the lessons of the Holocaust will remain relevant. […]

From a translation of a sprawling, 464-page Romanian novel to a study on the automobile as conceptual art, faculty from the School of Arts and Humanities have recently produced research on a wide range of topics. Translation of ‘Blinding’ Dr. Sean Cotter, associate professor of translation studies and literature, has translated Blinding (Archipelago Books), a novel written by Romanian […]