{"id":28170,"date":"2026-04-27T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?post_type=story&p=28170"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:12:37","slug":"strassler-center-lehigh-graduate-workshop-to-feature-two-well-known-authors","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/strassler-center-lehigh-graduate-workshop-to-feature-two-well-known-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Strassler Center, Lehigh University graduate conference to feature two well-known authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Clark\u2019s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Asher Lecture Series, along with Lehigh University\u2019s Berman Center for Jewish Studies and College of Arts and Sciences, are launching what they hope will become an annual event: a joint graduate conference that brings together students from both universities, along with others in the Boston area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s \u201cNever Always Again\u201d Graduate Workshop will feature lectures by well-known authors Molly Crabapple and Aleksandar Hemon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea for the graduate conference and bringing these two amazing speakers to campus is to give students an opportunity to think about their own work in interdisciplinary ways. Both Molly Crabapple and Aleksandar Hemon are thinking about history, but also from the perspective of graphic arts and literature,\u201d says Frances Tanzer, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Culture, associate professor of history, and director of graduate study at the Strassler Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanzer has co-organized the conference with Professor Nitzan Lebovic, director of Lehigh\u2019s Graduate Studies Program in History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted to create an opportunity for students to meet each other and start to work together,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Held in Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons, the talks are free and open to the community, but registration is required by emailing Alissa Duke at aduke@clarku.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, April 28, 4 p.m.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Molly
Molly Crabapple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As part of the book launch for her New York Times<\/em>-bestseller \u201cHere Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund,\u201d Crabapple, an artist and writer, will discuss \u201cAll Men Are Brothers: Bundist Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her keynote lecture will be followed by a light reception and book signing, with her newest book available for purchase. After Clark, Crabapple heads to City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco for her book tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crabapple\u2019s other books include \u201cDrawing Blood\u201d (2015) and \u201cBrothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War\u201d (2018, with Marwan Hisham), a New York Times<\/em> Notable Book that also was longlisted for a National Book Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, she has been published in The New York Times<\/em>, New York Review of Books<\/em>, The Paris Review<\/em>, Vanity Fair<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>, Rolling Stone<\/em>, The New Yorker<\/em>, and other publications. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, April 29, Noon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Aleksandar
Aleksandar Hemon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hemon, author of \u201cThe World and All That It Holds\u201d (2023) and \u201cThe Lazarus Project,\u201d a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, will present the plenary lecture, titled \u201cThe Logic of Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A professor of creative writing at Princeton University\u2019s Lewis Center for the Arts, Hemon also is author of three collections of short stories:\u201cThe Question of Bruno\u201d; \u201cNowhere Man,\u201d which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and \u201cLove and Obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His other works include the nonfiction books \u201cMy Parents: An Introduction\u201d and \u201cThe Book of My Lives\u201d; the novel \u201cThe Making of Zombie Wars\u201d; journalism, screenplays (including \u201cThe Matrix Revolutons\u201d), and content for the Netflix original show \u201cSense8.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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