Past Events
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Fueling Extremism in a Wired World
5:00 p.m. Reception | 6:00 p.m. Presentation
Nazis used radio; today’s extremists use social media. Then as now, new technology provides extremists with unchecked ability to spread hate and prey upon disenfranchised audiences to realize their deadly agenda. This program will explore the tension between protecting free speech and limiting incendiary propaganda. What responsibility do technology companies, governments, and individuals have to limit uses of technology to keep our world safe?
A reception precedes the program. The special exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda will remain open for viewing by attendees. Copresented with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Moderated by The National WWI Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian Robert Citino, PhD. The panel will include Steven Luckert, PhD, senior program curator of digital learning and new media at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.For more information call 504-528-1944 x 229.
State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This exhibition was underwritten in part by grants from Katharine M. and Leo S. Ullman and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, with additional support from the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund established in 1990, and Dr. and Mrs. Sol Center. Local exhibition support provided by Goldring Family Foundation & The Woldenberg Foundation.
Presenting support provided by an anonymous donor.
Public programming for State of Deception courtesy of the Bleznick Family Foundation.Special Presentation
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The Film Ministry: Nazi Mass Media and Anti-Semitic Film Propaganda
5:00 p.m. Exhibition Viewing | 6:00 p.m. Lecture
Join David Culbert, PhD, of Louisiana State University as he presents a multimedia lecture on Nazi film propaganda. Dr. Culbert’s lecture will show clips of propaganda films and discuss his article, “The Impact of Anti-Semitic Film Propaganda on German Audiences: Jew Suss and The Wandering Jew,” from the book Art, Culture, and Media under the Third Reich.
For more information call 504-528-1944 x 463.
This exhibition was underwritten in part by grants from Katharine M. and Leo S. Ullman and The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, with additional support from the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund established in 1990, and Dr. and Mrs. Sol Center. Local exhibition support provided by Goldring Family Foundation & The Woldenberg Foundation.
Presenting support provided by an anonymous donor.
Public programming for State of Deception courtesy of the Bleznick Family Foundation.Meet the Author
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Robert Child presents The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story
6:00 p.m. Presentation | 7:00 p.m. Book Signing
Presented in partnership with The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University
During the Battle of the Bulge, Nazis massacred 11 brave African American soldiers in the village of Wereth, Belgium. Although they sacrificed their lives during a time when they weren’t treated equally because of the color of their skin—even on American soil—this heroic story was left out of history books. It took 70 years for Congress to recognize the valor and bravery of these 11 men. Coauthor Robert Child tells the individual stories of these artillerymen, the Belgian family that took them in, and the boy who couldn’t forget the courageous men who died in the field. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Kara Tucina Olidge, PhD—executive director of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane—will introduce the program.
For more information call 504-528-1944 x 229.
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