Outreach
Knoxville Jazz for Justice
November 2, 2007
Professor Rosalind Hackett organized a jazz benefit concert, Knoxville Jazz for Justice, at World Grotto on Market Square in Knoxville, on November 2, 2007, to raise funds for the children of war-torn Northern Uganda. More than twenty musicians from the Knoxville area, as well as from Nashville, Atlanta, and South Africa, participated.
In 2006, Rosalind took a team of UT students (several of whom had assisted with the benefit concert) to Washington, DC from October 8-10, 2006 to attend the Northern Uganda Lobby Day and conference. Students had their first taste of lobbying their representatives on Capitol Hill and hearing from a range of experts on the 20-year war in Northern Uganda. The UT contingent was praised for having one of the largest campus representations. Rosalind has also helped produce a benefit compilation CD, Knoxville Jazz for Justice was launched in early 2007.
See www.knoxjazzforjustice.org. The Knoxville Jazz for Justice Project was featured in March 2007 by UT's Media Relations. For the article, click here.
Living On: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors and Liberators
July 17- October 22, 2006
East Tennessee History Center
"Living On: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors and Liberators" is a traveling exhibition of portraits photographed by UT Associate Professor Rob Heller (College of Communications).
Professor Gilya Schmidt organized the exhibition and surrounding educational and fund-raising events for Knoxville. The display has been a collaborative project of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee (chaired by Professor Gilya Schmidt), the Tennessee Holocaust Commission on which Professor Schmidt serves as a Commissioner, and the East Tennessee Historical Society. Nine programs as well as numerous docent tours have been conducted for the general public and school groups.