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Applications Open for CHGS Summer Graduate Institute

The Institute will run from July 16 to 20 in Barcelona

Photos of Spanish Directors Óscar Aibar and Xavier Artigas

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…

Joe Eggers, a person with short grey hair, a grey beard and mustache and glasses, wearing a blue buttoned shirt

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…

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UMN Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residencies for 2022-23 Announced

The third year of residencies have been selected for The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, part of the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts.