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CHGS Invites Applications for Visiting Professor for 2023-2024 Academic Year

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a full-time, academic year appointment as Visiting Professor in Holocaust and Genocide…

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Applications Open for CHGS Summer Graduate Institute

The Institute will run from July 16 to 20 in Barcelona

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The Iberian Studies Initiative presents four Spanish films and Q&As with the directors

Films include Platillos volantes and El sustituto by director Óscar Aibar and Idrissa: Crónica de una muerte cualquiera and Tarajal: Desmontando la impunidad en la frontera…

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A Look at Holocaust Education in Minnesota Following Jensen Comments on Nazi Germany

Eggers interim director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, talks about efforts to train teachers on how best to teach students about the Holocaust that killed 6…

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Recent Conference: Criminalization-Surveillance-Resistance: Roma and Policing from the Holocaust to the Present

The conference addressed the contemporary stakes of the history of criminalization and police persecution of Roma in Europe, and exploreed resonances with parallel histories…

Upcoming Events

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March 22, 2023

Pirotecnia (Federico Atehortúa Arteaga, 2019)

Spanish and Portuguese Film Festival screening

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March 23, 2023

Facing the Past: Reentry and Reintegration of People Convicted of Genocide in Rwanda

This talk will address what is happening as civilians convicted of perpetrating genocide finish their prison sentences and return to their communities, often to live side by…

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March 29, 2023

Segredos do Putumayo (Aurélio Michiles, 2020)

Spanish and Portuguese Film Festival screening

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April 05, 2023

Estiu 93 (Carla Simón, 2017)

Spanish and Portuguese Film Festival screening

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April 12, 2023

Nudo Mixteco (Ángeles Cruz, 2021)

Spanish and Portuguese Film Festival screening