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.
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Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Defining Antisemitism and Protecting Academic Freedom After October 7
Rose Library, Strassler CenterSpeakers: 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 […]
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People + Ruins: Remapping Demolished Spaces and Narratives in Haifa
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesDr. 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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Postponed Strassler Center Colloquium with Atina Grossmann
Kent Seminar Room, Strassler CenterNOTE: Postponed to Dec. 4
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When Conflicts Go Against the Grain: The Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh and Its Global Consequences
Strassler Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States27 October 2025 | 6:00pm | Rose LibraryStrassler Center Speaker: Anna Ohanyan (Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College) Moderator: Dr. Elyse Semerdjian […]
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Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference
Strassler Center 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesHiggins 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 Commons22 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 StatesSpeakers: 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 […]
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Come for the Wrestling, Stay for the Gospel: Christian Television in the Middle East (1981–2000)
Dana Commons – Higgins LoungeDr. Febe Armanios of Middlebury College will provide an overview of the history of Christian television in the Middle East — specifically, the rise of the region’s first Christian television station, which was established in war-torn South Lebanon in 1981.
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The David Atamian Journals: An Unparalleled Record of the Armenian Genocide
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd FloorSpeaker: Dr. Khatchig Mouradian (Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS at Columbia University) Moderator: Dr. Elyse Semerdjian (Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies; Professor, Department of History) David Atamian (1892, Behesni–1978, Arlington, Virginia) survived the Armenian Genocide and produced an unparalleled multi-volume […]
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All Men Are Brothers: Bundist Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesMolly Crabapple will deliever the keynote address for the “Never Always Again” workshop.
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The Logic of Genocide
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
