Sept. 18, 2010
Curator of Holocaust Memorial Museum’s highly acclaimed exhibition, ‘The Holocaust,’ to make presentation Sept. 23 at Marshall University
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Dr. Steven Luckert, curator of the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s highly acclaimed exhibition, The Holocaust, will make a presentation on Marshall University’s Huntington campus at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in Room BE 5 of the Memorial Student Center. The program is free to the public.
Luckert, who also serves as director of the exhibition, will speak on “State of Deception: the Power of Nazi Propaganda,” a companion volume to the exhibition, which he wrote with Susan Bachrach.
The exhibition encompasses three floors of the Washington, D.C., museum. It displays thousands of individual artifacts and features more than 70 audio-visual components. In addition to his other duties, Luckert selects artifacts, writes texts and handles public and media inquiries concerning the exhibition.
Prior to coming to the museum, Luckert taught European history at several campuses of the State University of New York and at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in modern European history from the State University of New York.
Luckert has also curated or co-curated six other special exhibitions at the museum including Father Jacques; Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms; The Voyage of the St. Louis; Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951; The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk; and Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust.
His Huntington appearance is being sponsored by Marshall University’s College of Liberal Arts and the Huntington Jewish Benevolent Association.
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Curator of Holocaust Memorial Museum’s highly acclaimed exhibition, ‘The Holocaust,’ to make presentation Sept. 23 at Marshall University
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Dr. Steven Luckert, curator of the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s highly acclaimed exhibition, The Holocaust, will make a presentation on Marshall University’s Huntington campus at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in Room BE 5 of the Memorial Student Center. The program is free to the public.
Luckert, who also serves as director of the exhibition, will speak on “State of Deception: the Power of Nazi Propaganda,” a companion volume to the exhibition, which he wrote with Susan Bachrach.
The exhibition encompasses three floors of the Washington, D.C., museum. It displays thousands of individual artifacts and features more than 70 audio-visual components. In addition to his other duties, Luckert selects artifacts, writes texts and handles public and media inquiries concerning the exhibition.
Prior to coming to the museum, Luckert taught European history at several campuses of the State University of New York and at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in modern European history from the State University of New York.
Luckert has also curated or co-curated six other special exhibitions at the museum including Father Jacques; Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms; The Voyage of the St. Louis; Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951; The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk; and Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust.
His Huntington appearance is being sponsored by Marshall University’s College of Liberal Arts and the Huntington Jewish Benevolent Association.
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