{"id":4369,"date":"2015-06-19T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2016-04-08T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:52:34","slug":"student-wins-outstanding-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/06\/19\/student-wins-outstanding-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Student wins Outstanding Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Gottlieb, a third year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/undergraduate\/comparative-literature-and-philosophy.html\">BA (Hons) in Comparative Literature and Philosophy<\/a> student, has won\u00a0the &#8216;Outstanding Achievement Award&#8217; at the Kent Union awards for his work\u00a0on the Holocaust\u00a0Memorial Week.<\/p>\n<p>The Holocaust Memorial Week was organised by students from the Comparative Literature module <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modulecatalogue\/modules\/CP624\">The Shoah in Literature, Film and Culture<\/a>, convened\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/staehler.html\">Dr Axel St\u00e4hler<\/a> in cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.het.org.uk\">Holocaust Educational Trust<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/organisation\/9246\/\">Kent Jewish Society<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\">Kent Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was part of a team of students who decided to organise an event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, which after a flurry of ideas became a week of events including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=3734\">talk by holocaust survivor Joan Slater<\/a>, a film festival and the launch of an <a href=\"http:\/\/shoahstudies-kent.org\/\">online journal<\/a> consisting of short essays, reviews, historical\u00a0articles and interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua&#8217;s contribution to the online journal involved interviewing\u00a0three Holocaust survivors. He recorded their memoirs on tape and transcribed the entire audio interviews from French to English, he then selected the key passages for use in the online journal; agonising over what to leave out, so as not to misrepresent the survivors testimony.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0was also heavily involved in arranging and promoting the talk by Holocaust survivor Joan Salter, creating a Facebook event to advertise the talk, informing the local Jewish community of the event, arranging and reporting on meetings with Joan and the Holocaust Educational Trust, creating poster advertising; as well as introducing Joan Salter&#8217;s talk and talking at the journal launch event.<\/p>\n<p>Almost\u00a0500 people attended the talk by Joan Salter, filling the largest lecture theatre on campus. Joshua said &#8216;This was an important project, both personally, \u00a0because of the lessons it taught me about group work, event management and the difficulties of representation; more broadly, because of the educational value of Joan Salter\u2019s talk and the legacy of the online journal&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua did all this while continuing his studies, producing his own blog featuring\u00a0audio interviews with philosophers, and securing a postgraduate\u00a0place\u00a0at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Gottlieb, a third year BA (Hons) in Comparative Literature and Philosophy student, has won\u00a0the &#8216;Outstanding Achievement Award&#8217; at the Kent Union awards for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/06\/19\/student-wins-outstanding-achievement-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}