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CHGS & CJS Hosted "Antisemitism and Racism in a Moment of Reckoning"

The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies hosted a two-day virtual Symposium on November 8 and 9.

Call for Papers: Education after Genocide: Shifting Approaches to Conflict, Prevention and Redress Conference

In the wake of genocide and mass violence, states must decide whether and how to teach their populations about the violence.

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CHGS Condemns the Hate Campaign on UMN Campus & Twin Cities Community

The acts in question, and the hate speech being spouted, are not hypothetical or imagined; they are real, politicized acts of violence targeting Twin Cities communities, which…

CHGS Offering Grants for Graduate Students

We are pleased to offer curricular development grants to UMN graduate instructors for the 2021-22 academic year. Five $500 grants will be awarded to graduate students who…

Fragmented Mirrors: Queering Jewish histories of the Holocaust

During Pride Month, the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies grapples with the complicated legacy of remembering and memorializing LGBTQIA+…

Upcoming Events

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December 08, 2021

“We Charge Genocide”: International Law and Anti-Black Violence in America

This panel will shed light on the efforts to use international law to challenge systemic racism, why it failed, and how groups are carrying the torch of the movement that was…

January 24, 2022

“A Family Affair: The Untold Story of the Jewish Resisters Who Helped the Allies Win World War II”

Ethan Katz is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the Aboulker family.