Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Archives

Community Engagement in Refugee Resettlement: Resources and Knowledge in the Field

The Integration and Belonging Hub’s webinar series, Belonging Talks, is pleased to present Brianne Casey, M.A. ’12, the community sponsorship technical assistance resource and learning manager at the Refugee Welcome Collaborative.
The Deserving and the Undeserving: Ukrainian Migrants and Middle Eastern Asylum Seekers in Poland

Elżbieta Goździak will discuss the plights of Ukrainian migrants and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers in Poland.
Afghan Refugee Voices: What Does Belonging Look Like in Host Countries?

This Integration and Belonging Hub webinar will feature Gaisu Yari, project director of Afghan Voices of Hope, which collects the personal narratives of displaced Afghans who escaped their country in 2021.
Vienna, 1890 – 1938: Capital of Tradition, Innovation, Promise, and Peril

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 […]
Roots of the Bosnian Genocide

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.
Klezmer Dynasty: An Intimate History of Modern Jewish Culture, 1880-2019

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.
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg

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.
Education, Remembrance, Prevention: Careers in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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 Perpetrators in History and Fiction

How do fictional representations relate to the truth historians have established about the past? Focusing on the Holocaust and Holocaust perpetrators, this conversation will examine the chasm between fiction and scholarship.
Informed Activism: Armed Conflict, Scarce Resources and Congo

In another first, the Strassler Center collaborated with groups of undergraduate students to organize this international summit. The event featured a list of experts and organizations. Learn More