Assessing the Impact of Holocaust Education on Adolescents’ Civic Values: Experimental Evidence from Arkansas

American adults overwhelmingly agree that the Holocaust should be taught in schools, yet few studies investigate the potential benefits of Holocaust education. We evaluate the impact of Holocaust education on several civic outcomes, including “upstander” efficacy (willingness to intervene on behalf of others), likelihood of exercising civil disobedience, empathy for the suffering of others, and tolerance of others with different values and lifestyles. We recruit students from two local high schools and randomize access to the Arkansas Holocaust Education Conference, where students have the chance to hear from a Holocaust survivor and to participate in breakout sessions with leading Holocaust experts. We find that students randomly assigned to attend the conference become more knowledgeable about the Holocaust and are more willing to act as an upstander on behalf of others. In our subgroup analysis, we find that minority students are significantly more willing to act as an upstander relative to their white peers

Authenticity, authentication and experiential authenticity: telling stories in museums

<p>This article examines how different types of authenticity and authentication work together to inspire museum stories, and personal identification with them, in ways that encourage experiential authenticity. It begins by outlining conceptions of object and existential authenticity and demonstrating how they are bound up with processes of hot and cool authentication. I argue that museums deploy all of these mechanisms to encourage experiences which visitors perceive as authentic. This perspective supports a concept of ‘experiential authenticity’ which connotes the belief and sensations of having experienced something genuine and real. This concept’s value is illustrated by examining storytelling in Anne Frank House. Key museum stories are outlined before exploring how different forms, and degrees, of authenticity and authentication work together to enlist visitor imaginations in the storytelling process and to thereby inspire personal identification as well as embodied connections with them. Four key mechanisms for telling stories are analysed (objects, texts, photographs and videos), and their combined capacity to cultivate experiential authenticity is demonstrated. This is important because experiential authenticity heightens visitor receptivity to museum stories, and is thus both a source and agent of power.</p

Accumulative Extremism: The Post-war Tradition of Anglo-American Neo-Nazi and Anti-Semitic Networks of Support

This essay explores the development of a transnational, Anglo-American neo-Nazi culture from the end of the Second World War to the present day. It stresses that it was the unique friendship between Colin Jordan and George Lincoln Rockwell that fuelled this tradition of cooperation, and plots how their World Union of National Socialists developed a mutual understanding between British and American activists in the 1960s. This survey of an emergent, post-war ‘tradition’ of Anglo-American interaction also highlights how Holocaust denial brought together British and American activists, and the from the 1980s onwards, we see a more complex series of interchanges emerge, including Blood & Honour and Combat 18. The chapter concludes by examining how this ‘tradition’ is now reproduced by a variety of websites

Indirect essences and meanings of architectural competitions / Netiesioginės architektūros konkursų esmės ir prasmės

In order to understand the significance and fullscale phenomenon of architectural competitions, it is not only necessary to analyze their direct goals, processes and material outcome, but also multisided indirect impact on the whole artistic field of architecture. In order to structure the whole of generally accepted insights on this issue, the theoretical model of artistic fields (champs) by Pierre Bourdieu has been selected. After analyzing the essential main points, meaning and examples of the indirect effect of competition system, the situation of competitions in Lithuania is reviewed in this aspect, identifying its peculiarities, significance and possible threats. Santrauka Norint suprasti architektūros konkursų fenomeno reikšmę ir mastą, būtina nagrinėti ne tik tiesioginius jų tikslus, procesą ir materialų rezultatą, bet ir įvairiapusį netiesioginį poveikį visam architektūros meno laukui. Siekiant struktūrizuoti visuotinai pripažintų įžvalgų šiuo klausimu visumą, pasirinktas P. Bourdieu meno laukų (champs) teorinis modelis. Išanalizavus esmines netiesioginės konkursų sistemos veikimo esmes, prasmes ir pavyzdžius, apžvelgiama Lietuvos konkursų situacija šiuo požiūriu, įvardinami ypatumai, reikšmė ir galimos grėsmės. Reikšminiai žodžiai: architektūros konkursai, nematerialioji prasmė, meninis laukas, simbolinis kapitalas, profesinis meistriškuma