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CHGS Resources on Ukraine

A collection of past events related to Ukraine

Close-up photo of a sticker from the group Patriot Front placed on the outside of Folwell Hall

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+…

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

Course offered through University of Minnesota - Duluth