Please join us for a conversation about the attacks in Israel on October 7th, what is currently happening in Gaza, and what it has to do with us.
Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture Keynote: Performing Exile: New Approaches to the Study of Refugees from Nazi Europe View Conference Program Michael Geyer (Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European History and former Faculty Director of the Human Rights Program, now the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago) researches […]
University of Connecticut Professor Catherine Masud will discuss how human rights-themed archive collections can empower students as archivists, interpreters, and storytellers while they also work with local communities to build new archives.
The keynote address for the Fifth International Graduate Student Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies will feature Wendy Lower of Claremont McKenna College. A reception will follow.
In the first decades of the twentieth-century Vienna was a locus for cultural and intellectual innovation, as well as for radical politics of left and right. This symposium brings together a group of leading interdisciplinary scholars to explore the interactions of art, music, and cultural politics in the decades preceding the rise of National Socialism and […]
A symposium examining sexuality, human rights, Jews, gays, and their visualization in the context of German modernity will honor the late Professor Robert Deam Tobin and his vibrant contributions to scholarship and teaching.
The inaugural Albert M. Tapper Lecture in commemoration of Kristallnacht will look at the relationship between early Holocaust memoirs and testimony, and what we can learn about what could and could not be said in 1944.
Speaker: Séverine Autesserre (Professor and Chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University) In this talk based on her latest book The Frontlines of Peace, Autesserre will tell the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and communities that have found effective ways to confront violence. Drawing on 20 years of work in peacebuilding, […]
Speakers: Justin Hosbey (Assistant Professor, Emory University), Tessa Rose Farmer (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia) and Caterina Scaramelli (Assistant Professor, Boston University) Strassler Center Professors Sultan Doughan and Frances Tanzer organized a workshop to examine climate induced displacement, its historical implications, and current dimensions. They directed a wide-ranging conversation with Justin Hosbey (Emory University), Caterina […]
Speaker: Felipe Milanez (Professor at the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos and the Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Culture and Society, of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.) The intersection between environmental destruction and violence against Indigenous Peoples was the subject of “The Ecology of Genocide” (3 November 2021) a lecture by […]
Speaker: Emanuel Kreike (Professor of History; Acting Director, African Studies, Princeton University) Princeton University historian Emanuel Kreike considered the history of environmental degradation in the context of mass violence in his talk, “Environcide: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature” (21 October 2021). In examining the impact of conventional war on society and the […]
Speakers: Radwan Ziadeh (Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace), Ora Szekely (Clark University), Noha Aboueldahab (Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution) The Syrian conflict has claimed the lives of a half-million people since 2011. Nearly five million more people have fled the country. The panelists will explain the key drivers of the […]
