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MinnPost article by CHGS affiliated faculty Professor Joachim J. Savelsberg (Sociology)

Explore databases and resources relevant to research in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This guide is an in-depth listing of Holocaust and Genocide Studies resources available…

The center organizes lectures, conferences and symposia that feature leading scholars, practitioners, and activists, who provide critical analysis and tools to understand and…

Prof. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He has written several books on Holocaust remembrance and on Yiddish culture, including…

We were lucky to have Kathryn as our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow in CHGS last year, during which time she also coordinated our HGMV graduate workshop.  CHGS feels…

Join us for a series of community dialogues and virtual educator workshops to learn about genocides from the experiences and perspectives of local survivors and survivor…

by Henning Schroeder, former vice provost and dean of graduate education at the University of Minnesota

At the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, we are both deeply saddened and profoundly angered by the brutal, horrific murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police…

Memory, Trauma, and Survival in Japan and Beyond: A Conversation with Ran Zwigenberg

Taylor Johnson, MFA graduate student in the Department of Art, minoring in Museum Studies will work as RA

Research has been lacking, but reports and testimony suggest that during Kristallnacht, Goebbels ordered systematic and nationwide violent attacks aimed at Jewish homes.

CHGS is pleased to support this research on the importance in naming of large-scale political violence in the construction of national historical narratives in Sierra Leone…

Fall 2020 Courses Relating to Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Join us for a series of community dialogues and virtual educator workshops to learn about genocides from the experiences and perspectives of local survivors and survivor…

CHGS is following suit after UMN administration made the decision to extend spring break and move to online instruction through March 2020 in an effort to contain COVID-19.

The Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies is awarded every two years, and pays a stipend of $22,500, and $1,000 toward the mandatory…

a variety of lectures, symposia, and exhibitions

Bridges of Memory will bring together recent and long-established ethnic, national, and religious communities in the Twin Cities (Armenian, Jewish, Hmong, Khmer, and Somali…