• 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • All Men Are Brothers: Bundist Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    28 April 2026 | 4:00pm | Higgins LoungeDana Commons Keynote: “Never Always Again” Workshop Asher Lecture Series Speaker: Molly Crabapple (Artist and writer based in New York. She is the […]

  • The Logic of Genocide

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

    Speaker:  Aleksander 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 […]