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  • Azad: A live storytelling performance

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    A woman’s magical, multi-generational, healing journey from the Armenian Genocide to the Syrian war in the tradition of Hakawati storytelling.

  • Understanding Gaza: Tracing Violence and Reconciliation in Palestine/Israel

    18 October 2024 | 4:15 p.m. | Higgins Lounge |Dana Commons Speaker: Sa’ed Atshan (Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College) Understanding Gaza: Tracing Violence and Reconciliation in Palestine/Israel No recording of this event is available. Sponsored by the Strassler Center […]

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    Defining Antisemitism and Protecting Academic Freedom After October 7

    Rose Library, Strassler Center

    Speakers: Frances Tanzer (Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture, Strassler Center) Johanna Vollhardt (Associate Professor, Psychology and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies) Already before October 7, institutions (including colleges and universities) began to adopt narrow definitions of antisemitism—especially the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition—and use them for purposes outside of […]

  • People + Ruins: Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Dr. Orwa Switat, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Palestinian Studies at Brown University, will present an innovative digital map and short films that trace the history of Haifa and its displaced […]

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    Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference

    Strassler Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

    Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture Keynote: Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference Speaker: Sarah Casteel (Professor of English, Carleton University) Holocaust Studies […]

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    Antisemitism in American Law and Life 

    Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons

    22 January 2026 | 4:00pm | Higgins LoungeDana Commons Speakers: Jonathan Feingold (Professor of law at Boston University School of Law and co-host of the #RaceClass Podcast. Prof. Feingold is […]

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    Beyond Establishing Guilt: The Uses of Microhistory to Rethink the Yugoslav Wars

    Strassler Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers: Max Bergholz (Professor of History at Concordia University) Fedja Buric (Associate Professor of History at Bellarmine University) Sandra Grudic (Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center, Harvard University) Discussant: Markp […]

  • The Logic of Genocide

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Speaker:  Aleksandar Hemon (Professor, of Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.) Hemon is most recently the author of The World and All That It Holds (2023). He is […]

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    Book Talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer: “Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust”

    Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

    This book is the culmination of Charlie Scheidt’s decade-long journey to uncover his family’s hidden past during the Holocaust. With filmmaker Kat Rohrer, the granddaughter of a Nazi officer, he embarked on a quest to trace his family’s harrowing efforts to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.