Events

16 October 2023 | 5:30 p.m. | Higgins Lounge Dana Commons Speaker: Wendy Lower (John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College) Title: TBD Reception to follow Sponsored by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies In cooperation with the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, […]

14 November 2023 |12:00 – 1:30| Higgins Lounge Dana Commons Especially for Students Lecture Speaker: Catherine Masud ( Department of Digital Media and Design within the School of Fine Arts and the Human Rights Institute at UConn) Title: TBD Sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Genocide and Human Rights Concentration (Ina and Haskell Gordon Endowed […]

16 November 2023 | 5:00 p.m.  |Higgins Lounge Dana Commons Albert M. Tapper Lecture in commemoration of Kristallnacht Keynote: Performing Exile: Performance and the History of Refugees from Nazi Europe Speaker: Michael Geyer (Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European History at the University of Chicago) Title: TBD Reception to follow. Sponsored by […]

1 April 2024 |  TBD | Higgins Lounge Dana Commons “Revisiting ‘Neighbors’” Speaker: Jan T. Gross (Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus; Professor of History, emeritus at Princeton University)     Sponsored by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

11-12 April 2024 | Higgins Lounge | Dana Commons     | Kwibuka 30: Making Memory and Legacy in Rwanda Keynote Speaker: Alice Wairimu Nderti (United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres)   Sponsored by the Strassler for Holocaust and Genocide Studies