Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Photo of the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, known as Bdote to the native Dakota people.

October 10, 2021

Bdote Tour with Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair

Join us this fall for a special guided tour of the Bdote site at Fort Snelling State Park, location of Dakota creation stories and the site of mass imprisonment of the Dakota…

October 12, 2021

Confronting the Past: Legacies of Indigenous Genocide in the Americas

Panel discussion. Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. Part of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies’…

October 14, 2021

500 Years: Indigenous Responses to History and Human Rights in Guatemala during the 1980s

Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. Part of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies’ events marking…

October 29, 2021

Anti-Gypsyism: An Overview

Presented by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch and co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

November 08, 2021

Antisemitism and Racism in a Moment of Reckoning

A two-day symposium on November 8 and 9. Presented with the Center for Jewish Studies. Part of the Seeking Justice IGS Collaborative Series

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Recent News

CHGS Offering Grants for Graduate Students

Fragmented Mirrors: Queering Jewish histories of the Holocaust

May term course that will count for the Jewish Studies major or minor: "Virtual Eastern Europe & The Holocaust."

Jillian LaBranche Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Thank you, Jennifer Hammer