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FASPE is an innovative program for students in professional schools designed to address contemporary ethical issues through a unique historical context. The Fellowships provide law, medical, seminary, journalism, and business students a structured program of study that initially focuses on the role of their chosen professions in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and uses that historic focus as a topics such as The Rule of Law vs. “Lawlessness;” The Role and Limits of Bioethics, The Goals of Morality in the Face of Evil, The Responsibility to Report, and Ethical Limitations on Profit-Seeking. FASPE is under the auspices of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Ten to fifteen students from each profession are chosen as Fellows each year through a competitive process that draws applicants from professional schools across the country. Following an introductory session in New York, each group of Fellows travels to Berlin, Krakow, and Oswiecim (Auschwitz). In Germany and Poland, the in situ program looks at the role of the profession in the development and implementation of policies and programs that led to the Holocaust. FASPE is predicated upon both the potent symbolism of Auschwitz and the Fellows’ personal experience while in Germany and Poland to help the Fellows within each profession explore the power and potential of their profession along with the potential challenges they will face as professionals. FASPE programs cover all student expenses, including food, travel, and lodging. Programs will be offered in 2010 to students attending schools of Law and Medicine; programs for the other professions will begin in 2011. The two-week program has the following structure:
A FASPE Pilot Program with students from Yale Medical School and Yale Law School took place in March 2009. Jessica Bod, Yale School of Medicine Class of 2011, said of her experience, “As doctors, it is difficult for us to admit that we have prejudices, because the image of the good doctor is one that we are happy to grab hold of… it is one thing to go to Auschwitz and be sad for humankind, to wonder where the bystanders were and to identify with the rescuers or even the victims. It is another to acknowledge your potential to be a perpetrator and to safeguard yourself against that.” FASPE is working in cooperation with Jagiellonian University, Krakow; the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin; and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim, Poland; and in collaboration with Yale Medical School, Yale Law School, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and Georgetown University.
To see a selection of Yale Medical Student Ben Goldberg’s photos from the trip, which were on exhibition at Yale in September 2009, please click here. FASPE programs for medical and legal students will begin on June 20, 2010 in New York City. For an overview of FASPE for Medical students, click here. Download FASPE Medical Application here FASPE for Medical students suggested reading list For an overview of FASPE for Legal students, click here. Download FASPE Legal Application here FASPE for Legal students suggested reading list Initial funding for the FASPE is provided by C. David Goldman. To donate to the FASPE programs, please e-mail Shiri Sandler at ssandler@mjhnyc.org. To read the press release for the FASPE programs, click here.
THE FASPE STEERING COMMITTEE Dr. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs Dr. Nancy Angoff Ivy L. Barsky Andrea Bartoli Dr. Michael Berenbaum Debbie Bisno Merrill Brown Prof. Robert Burt Judge Guido Calabresi Bal Das Dr. Thomas Duffy Andy Eder C. David Goldman (Chair) Piotr Kowalik Prof. Anthony Kronman Tomasz Kuncewicz John Langan, S.J. Frederick Marino David G. Marwell, Ph.D. Nathan Milikowsky Rabbi Jay Henry Moses Sydney Perry Sigmund Rolat Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic Dr. Ronald B. Sobel Teresa Swiebocka Hans WestraFor titles and affiliations of the FASPE Steering Committee, click here. |
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