Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Small image from the Museum of Occupation in Tallinn, Estonia with information about the event.

January 27, 2022

"Yellow Star, Red Star: The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe"

The 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture

Political rally image with information about the lecture.

March 02, 2022

"On Civil Mimicry and the Issue of Civil Degradation"

A lecture from Carlo Tognato (Yale University)

The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial with text about the event

March 24, 2022

"Remembering Through Music: The Srebrenica Genocide in Bosnian izvorna Songs"

A lecture from Badema Pitic (USC Shoah Foundation)

It Can Happen Here book cover with information about the event.

April 13, 2022

"It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US"

A book talk with Alexander Hinton (Rutgers College)

Image of Ottoman raid on Armenian village from 1898 or 1899 with information about the panel

April 27, 2022

"Armenian Genocide and Provincial Histories: Dispossession and Migration in the late-Ottoman Empire"

This panel explores the interplay between persistent violence and the wide variety of responses the same violence brought against the Armenian population in the late-Ottoman…

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CHGS Offering Grants for Graduate Students

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