Renan Koen and Her Brand-New Accomplishments

Renan Koen at the US Library of Congress with her works

Renan Koen's works are now in the US Library of Congress in the section opened for Koen. The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. The oldest federal cultural institution in the country, the library is located in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. One of the largest libraries in the world, the Library of Congress has a universal collection, not limited by subject, format, or national boundaries, and contains research materials from all around the world and in over 470 languages.

Renan Koen's works are now in Istanbul Gedik University's Curriculum

Renan Koen's book Positive Resistance is now a course subject and content at Istanbul Gedik University. With the History of Hate, Theresienstadt, and the March of the Music subdivisions included in the curriculum, Koen describes the stages leading to the Holocaust savagery step by step with her music therapist and researcher identity, starting from the hunter-gatherer era until the Holocaust also including witness testimonies. Koen has also documented the production of music at the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, among all the violence, with all the details. Istanbul Gedik University's General Art Director Caner Akgün is the person who has initiated the inclusion of Koen's Positive Resistance Method and the wonderful work she has been creating with her March of the Music students in the Gedik University's curriculum, due to his admiration of her book.

Koen held an interview and a book signing day with the Literature Club and also the film reading of the movie 'Pianist' produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with the Psychology Club and together with Asena Akan. During this film reading, she performed the Mazurka which had been composed in the Warsaw Ghetto by the pianist and composer Szpilman, whose real-life story has been depicted in the movie. 

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