Join us for the Seeking Refuge in a Changing World symposium on April 19, presented as an IGS Collaborative event!

Our Spring 2018 schedule is full of lectures, symposia, workshops, and community events.

The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Department of History invite applications from current doctoral students in the UMN College of Liberal Arts for the Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The Badzin Fellowship will pay a stipend of $18,000, the cost of tuition and health insurance, and $1,000 toward the mandatory graduate student fees.

“Ausencias” is an exhibition based on photographic material from family albums. It shows a series of cases that give a face to those who are no longer here: workers, militants, students, professionals, entire families. All of them, victims of the systematic plan of the illegal repression and forced disappearance established by the civic-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), Brazil (1964-1985) and Uruguay (1973-1984).

Revisiting two ground-breaking cases as an occasion to consider the role of truth, memory, and justice in today's complex human rights terrain

How did European nation-states transition from millennia of war to adopt non-violent conflict resolution in the last 70 years? What role has Germany played in complex reconciliatory processes? Can European peace last? And is the European experiment in peace-making of any relevance for conflicts on other continents?

On April 6-8, 2017, CHGS held a symposium in celebration of its 20th anniversary, entitled, “Comparative Genocide Studies and the Holocaust: Conflict and Convergence.” Timothy Snyder, a professor of History at Yale University gave the keynote on “The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present.” Joe Eggers was able to sit down and talk with him.

CHGS Blog article by Joe Eggers and Alejandro Baer

An open letter to the organizers of an African Trade Forum event, who have announced that Maowia Osman Khalid, Ambassador of Sudan to the US, will be on campus for a panel co-hosted by the Carlson School of Management, written by UMN faculty.