The International Court of Justice, the UN’s highest court, took up two cases regarding the Palestine-Israel crisis at the start of the year. Two legal experts will explain the genesis of the cases, the strengths and weaknesses of both, as well as their broader local, regional, and global implications.
On the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, this workshop gathers an international group of scholars to examine the construction of memory and legacy.
1 April 2024 | 4:30 p.m. | 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, Princeton University) Professor Jan Gross’ publication of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (in Polish in 2000 and […]
To better understand antisemitism and how to address its many manifestations, three scholars will discuss historical antisemitism, how the present form relates to other hatreds, and the efforts that have been made to combat it.
Especially for Students Lecture Sexual Violence in Russia’s War against Ukraine: Nature, Effects and Responses Speaker: Marta Havryshko (Dr. Thomas Zand Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies at Clark University) Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukrainian and international human rights organizations have documented violations against civilians in […]
This workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars working on displacement and forced migration from Nazi-controlled Europe. Its participants ask how refugees from Nazism reimagined their sense of home and their identities as Europeans and/or Jews after their flight? Participating scholars draw on the methods of performance studies to complicate older paradigms […]
Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb forces humiliated, sexually abused, tortured, and killed Bosnian Muslims and Croats in a widespread, systematic way as part of the armed conflicts occurring across the former Yugoslavia.
Education, Remembrance, Prevention: Careers in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Speakers: Morgan Blum Schneider, Sara Brown, Mikal Eckstrom, Jonathan Edelman, Josh Franklin, and Anna Voremberg Ellement Clark undergraduates trained in Holocaust history, genocide studies, and human rights are prepared for rewarding careers in education, remembrance and prevention. Through coursework, research projects, and internships, they gain […]
Frances Tanzer, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture, will propose an intimate transnational cultural history of the Holocaust and modern Jewish experience by focusing on her own family.
Speakers: Marianne Hirsch (Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University) Leo Spitzer (K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College) Workshop: Representing Absence: Refugees, Forced Migration, and Aftermath Marianne Hirsch, Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University, and Leo Spitzer, K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at Dartmouth College, […]
Speakers: Raffi Bedrosyan (civil engineer, concert pianist, and author of Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey – hidden, not hidden and no longer hidden (2018)) and George Aghjayan (Director of the Armenian Historical Archives and the chair of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Central Committee of the Eastern United States ) The 1915 Genocide led […]
A symposium to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Strassler Center’s doctoral program and to celebrate the long-term leadership of founding Strassler Center Director and inaugural Rose Professor Debórah Dwork gathers graduates to respond to the theme of agency in the Holocaust and Genocide. Agency addresses the choices that individuals have, their decisions and actions, […]
