News Around Webster: Rosenblum, Dippel and Thompson

Rosenblum Named Instructor for Regional Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

Webster History Professor Warren Rosenblum will be an instructor, alongside professors from Washington University and the University of Missouri, for the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s prestigious Regional Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, to be held April 28–30, 2023, on the campuses of Washington University and the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.

The institute is open to higher education instructors and graduate students. 

Rosenblum also presented the paper “Bethel in our Dreams: The Asylum Between Utopia and Nightmare,” at the Lessons and Legacies Conference in Ottawa, Canada in November.

Dippel Featured As Speaker for MOCPA Professional Development Series 

Associate Professor Richard Dippel from Webster’s Walker School of Business & Technology was a featured speaker Dec. 8 for the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants Professional Development Series. The series took a deep dive into the role of the forensic accountant and how forensic accounting applies to the investigation and establishment of evidence in a court of law.

Dippel’s presentation was titled, "What to Expect from Your Forensic Accountant." 

Thompson Presentation Drawn From Her Recently-Published Book 

Associate Dean Emily Thompson of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences recently presented a paper at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her paper, “Exercising Compassion: Lessons Pierre de Boaistuau learned from ‘The Heptameron,’” traces the influence of a deliberative, humanist compassion on the genre of the “histoires tragique” that emerges at the cusp of the French Wars of Religion.

The presentation drew from her recently published edited volume “Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Negotiating Shifting Forms,” which was published through University of Delaware Press and Rutgers University Press earlier this year. The book is an interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, reinforce or restructure community, sell new ideas and refashion the past.