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Register for the Bdote Dakota Site talk and tour at Ft. Snelling State Park (Sun,...

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Sunday, October 13, 12:30pm

Presenting the CHGS Fall 2019 Schedule of Events

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a variety of lectures, symposia, and exhibitions

17th Annual Arsham & Charlotte Ohanessian Chair Lecture

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Presented by Armen T. Marsoobian

Call For Nominations - 2019 Undergraduate Human Rights Awards

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Each spring, the Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies celebrates the tremendous work of University of Minnesota - Twin Cities undergraduate students in human rights by presenting the Inna Meiman Human Rights Award and the Sullivan Ballou Award.

Announcing the CHGS Spring 2019 Public Events Calendar!

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The center organizes lectures, conferences and symposia that feature leading scholars, practitioners, and activists, who provide critical analysis and tools to understand and effectively address the causes, impacts, and legacies of the Holocaust, genocides, and incidents of mass violence.

Explore the Archives with HGMV

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Special talk and tour of the amazing primary resources contained within the Andersen Library Archives by our resident expert archivists.

Register for Upcoming Educator Workshop on the Holocaust and Antisemitism

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Saturday, February 9, 8am-3pm in #317 Blegen Hall

CHGS Remembers Fern Badzin

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Staff, faculty and students affiliated with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota grieve the passing of Fern Badzin.

Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship Program -- application submission beginning in...

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The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program "A Bridge to History" is accepting applications from faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students for 2019.

USC Shoah Foundation Research Opportunity - Deadline Nov 15, 2018

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The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Week that will provide support for an interdisciplinary group of international scholars to develop and discuss a collaborative innovative research project in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies using the video testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) and other related resources at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Upcoming Events

October 3, 2019 to October 4, 2019

“Memory, Trauma and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science"

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This conference (free and open to the public) brings together members from the University of Minnesota, the surrounding community, and major research institutions abroad to better...

October 13, 2019

Minnesota’s Complex History: Bdote Dakota Site Talk and Walking Tour

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Talk and walking tour of the Bdote site at Fort Snelling State Park by lyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University. Registration required. Presented by the Center for...

October 16, 2019

German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning across Generations

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What do we do with pasts we inherit that carry shame? Drawing on her own history as the daughter of German parents who lived through the Nazi years, Bammer explores questions of guilt,...

November 7, 2019

Piercing the Silence: Holocaust Memories and Lessons in Concert

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Kristallnacht commemoration event with a performance by Janet Horvath, former associate principal cellist for the Minnesota Orchestra. Reception to follow. Presented by the Center for...

February 27, 2020

Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in 1948 and Today

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2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...

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