Past Events
2021-2022
Sunday, October 10, 2021. Bdote Tour with Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University. Part of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies’ events marking Indigenous Peoples Week.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Panel Discussion. "Confronting the Past: Legacies of Indigenous Genocide in the Americas." Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. Part of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies’ events marking Indigenous Peoples Week and part of the Seeking Justice IGS Collaborative Series.
Thursday, October 14, 2021. Lecture. "500 Years: Indigenous Responses to History and Human Rights in Guatemala during the 1980s." Heider Tun, PhD candidate in history. Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. Part of the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies’ events marking Indigenous Peoples Week.
Friday, October 29, 2021. Lecture. "Anti-Gypsyism: An Overview." Dr. Habiba Hadziavdic, Hamline University. Presented by the Department of German, Slavic, Nordic & Dutch and co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Monday, November 8 & Tuesday, November 9, 2021. A two-day symposium. "Antisemitism and Racism in a Moment of Reckoning." Presented with the Center for Jewish Studies. Part of the Seeking Justice IGS Collaborative Series.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Panel Discussion. "60 Years Later: The Eichmann Trial in Media & Memory." Presented with the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the Roy Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University, and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. Co-sponsored by the Center for German & European Studies. Paid for in part with the Wexler Fund for Genocide Education.
Wednesday, December 8, 2021. Panel Discussion. "“We Charge Genocide”: International Law and Anti-Black Violence in America" Presented by the Center Holocaust & Genocide Studies & the Human Rights Program. Part of the Seeking Justice IGS Collaborative Series. Paid for in part with the Wexler Fund for Genocide Education.
2020-2021
Tuesday, October 6. Book Talk. "Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp." Sara J. Brenneis, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. Presented by the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, and Department of Spanish & Portuguese; cosponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (Western Washington University), the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz (Austria), and the Centro Sefarad-Israel (Madrid).
Sunday, October 11. Talk and Walking Tour. Bdote Dakota Site at Fort Snelling State Park. lyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Monday, October 12. **Indigenous Peoples Day** Panel Discussion. "Decolonizing Columbus: transatlantic perspectives on statues and anniversaries." Gabriela Spears-Rico, Chicano & Latino Studies, American Indian Studies Studies (UMN) will present "Dancing Away Our Indigenous Pain: Bearing Witness to Columbus’s Downfall in Imnizaskadan (Saint Paul, Mni Sota, Dakota Lands, 528 years after 'discovery');" Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College) and Joseph Sciorra (City University of New York) will present "Activism and Reconciliation, Italian Americans Explore Columbus;" Alejandro Baer, Sociology (UMN), will present "'Not only do we not apologize...' The Columbus Myth and Memory Politics in present-day Spain;" chaired by Katharine Gerbner, History (UMN). Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, cosponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIGS) Initiative, the Department of American Indian Studies, Department of Sociology, and Department of History.
Thursday, October 15. Lunch and learn. "Dakota Language History and Revitalization." Šišóka Dúta Joe Bendickson Joe Bendickson, Teaching Specialist, American Indian Studies.
Thursday, October 22. Panel Discussion. "Breaking the Pact of Forgetting: The Franco Dictatorship and Historical Memory in Spain." Moderated by Sandra Alfers, Director of The Ray Wolpow Institute (Western Washington University), with panelists Günter Schwaiger, Independent Filmmaker, and Alejandro Baer, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota). Organized by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University in partnership with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Monday, October 26. Book Talk. "The Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History." Amos Goldberg, Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Head of the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Bashir Bashir, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, Open University of Israel. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies together with the Center for Jewish Studies, in conjunction with HIST3512: "History of Modern Israel/Palestine".
Wednesday, October 28. Book Talk. "Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever." Leigh A. Payne, University of Oxford, Gabriel Pereira, National University of Tucuman, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Organized by the Oxford Transitional Justice Research, University of Oxford; cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Program, and the University of Oxford's Latin American Centre.
Monday, November 2. Workshop Presentation. "Indigenous Genocide and Reparative Justice in Minnesota and Manitoba: The Role of Education" with Professor Alejandro Baer (Sociology), CHGS Research Coordinator Joe Eggers, and UMN graduate students George Dalbo and Jillian LaBranche. Presented as part of the Department of Sociology's Workshop Series.
Monday, November 9. Commemorative Lecture. "The Forgotten Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes during ‘Kristallnacht.'" Wolf Gruner, Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), and the Upper Midwest Holocaust and Genocide Education Consortium.
Wednesday, November 18. Commemorative Lecture. "In commemoration of International Holodomor Memorial Day: Teaching a Genocide the World Forgot." Valentina Kuryliw, Director of Education at the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) in Toronto. Presented with the Ukrainian American Community Center.
2019-2020
**Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Nazi Death Camps**
Thursday-Friday, October 3-4. Symposium. "Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Science." Presented by the Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights Interdisciplinary Collaborative, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the College of Liberal Arts Imagine Fund.
Wednesday, October 9. Community event. Exhibit tour, "Treasures of Memory and Hope" by Father Tadeos Barseghyan, St. Sahag Armenian Church. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Thursday, October 10. Lecture. "States of Exclusion: What German History Can Teach Us About Trump's America." Richard Frankel, history, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Presented by the Department of Sociology, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and others.
Sunday, October 13. Community event. Talk and walking tour, “Minnesota’s Complex History: Bdote Dakota Site at Fort Snelling State Park” by lyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, October 16. Lecture. "German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning across Generations." Angelika Bammer, comparative literature, Emory University. Presented by the Center for German & European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Sunday, November 3 and Wednesday, November 6. Film screening. "The Cordillera of Dreams" as part of "Cine Latino." Presented by the MSP Film Society, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Thursday, November 7. Kristallnacht commemorative event. "Piercing the Silence: Holocaust Memories and Lessons in Concert" reflections on witnessing from a child of Holocaust survivors. Performance by Janet Horvath, former associate principal cellist for the Minnesota Orchestra, with introduction and Q&A moderation by Professor Leslie Morris, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, & Dutch. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for German & European Studies and the School of Music. Made possible with support from the Bernard and Fern Badzin Lecture Fund.
Wednesday, November 13. Panel discussion. "'The Great Replacement': Conspiracy Theories and Far-right Mass Violence in the Trump Era" panel discussion with UMN faculty Riv-Ellen Prell, American studies, Bruno Chaouat, French & Italian, Joseph Gerteis, sociology, and Malinda Linquist, history and African American & African Studies. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Human Rights Program, and the Departments of History, French & Italian, African American & African Studies, and Sociology.
Thursday, November 14. Lecture. "Resisting Violence and the Journey of Reconciliation: Lessons from Rwanda." Emmanuel Katongole, theology and peace studies, University of Notre Dame. Presented by Anselm House, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Department of African American & African Studies.
Monday, January 27 **In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day** Film screening. Who Will Write Our History [motion picture] (2018). Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in conjunction with GER/JWST 3633: The Holocaust: Memory, Narrative, History; cosponsored by the Center for German & European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and the UMN Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.
Wednesday, February 12. Book talk. "On Belonging: WWII and German Cultural Identity." Nora Krug, author. Presented by the Center for German & European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.
Thursday, February 13. Book talk. On Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto. Professor Samuel D. Kassow, history, Trinity College, and author. Presented with the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence (HGMV) Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Group, cosponsored by the Center for German & European Studies, in partnership with the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Minnesota and the Dakotas, and made possible by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University.
Tuesday, February 18. Lecture. "Practical Musicology: Audio Guides, Sound Ethics, and Holocaust Memory." Kathryn Huether, PhD Candidate, musicology. Presented with the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence (HGMV) Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Group, cosponsored by the School of Music.
Thursday, February 27. Lecture. "'Not a Suicide Pact': Rethinking Antisemitism and Liberalism in Postwar Jewish America." Professor James Loeffler, Jewish history, University of Virginia. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Tuesday, March 3. Lecture. "Survivors: Psychological Trauma and Memory Politics in Hiroshima and Auschwitz." Professor Ran Zwigenberg, Asian studies and Jewish studies, Pennsylvania State University. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, cosponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of History; made possible with support from the Wexler Fund for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, March 4. Lecture. "Entangled Memories: Hiroshima, Jerusalem, and the Emergence of Global Memory Culture." Professor Ran Zwigenberg, Asian studies and Jewish studies, Pennsylvania State University. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in conjunction with HIST 1362: Global History of World War II and GEOG 3388: Going Places: Geographies of Travel and Tourism, cosponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of History; made possible with support from the Wexler Fund for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
**CANCELED**
Monday, March 16. Lecture. "Education on Indigenous Dispossession and Reparative Justice in Minnesota and Manitoba." Professor Alejandro Baer, sociology, and CHGS director. Presented by the Department of Sociology as part of the Sociology Workshop Series, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
**POSTPONED**
Thursday, March 26. Lecture. "Confronting Germany’s Past: Memorializing Jewish Victims in Popular Music." Professor Leo Treitler, musicology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for German & European Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies; made possible with support from the Wexler Fund for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
**CANCELLED**
Thursday-Saturday, April 9-11. Conference. "Threats to Democracy in Times of Populism and Racial Nationalism" with panels sponsored by CHGS on responses to far-right extremism in Minnesota and right-wing politics in Europe. Organized by the University of Minnesota in partnership with Howard University, Spelman College and Morehouse College.
Tuesday, April 14. HGMV Workshop: "Remote Fieldwork During a Pandemic" presentation by Francisco Ferrándiz (Professor of Social Anthropology, Spanish Research Council) and author Contemporary Ethnographies Moorings, Methods, and Keys for the Future (Routledge 2020) and response from George Dalbo (PhD student Curriculum & Instruction & CHGS Education Outreach Coordinator). Via Zoom.
**POSTPONED**
Thursday, April 16. Symposium. "Bridges of Memory: Twin Cities communities sharing histories of mass violence, communal memory, and resilience." Part of the CLA Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Pilot program, in partnership with community groups.
**POSTPONED**
Thursday, April 23. 2020 Ohanessian Lecture. "Curating a Centennial Exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Paris: History, Images, and the Context of the Shoah Memorial." Claire Mouradian, Professor Emerita of History, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Organized by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German & European Studies, the Human Rights Program, Department of History, Department of French & Italian, Department of Sociology, and the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts.
**CANCELED**
Friday, April 24. Symposium. "Victim, Symbol, or Actor? Middle Eastern Migrants in Transnational Perspectives." Organized by Miray Philips, PhD Candidate in Sociology; cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Immigration History Research Center, Human Rights Program, Department of History, and Department of Religious Studies.
2018-2019
Friday, September 21. “Migration Across Global Regimes of Childhood” symposium. Presented by the Immigrant History Resource Center
Sunday, October 7. “Minnesota’s own Dark History: Bdote Dakota Site at Fort Snelling State Park” talk and walking tour at Fort Snelling State Park with lyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University. Registration required. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Thursday, October 11. Hasan Hasanović, Srebrenica genocide survivor and Curator at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre. Presented by the Institute for Global Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Tuesday, October 16. "‘Such Much?’ Jews and Other Refugees in Casablanca" talk by Noah Isenberg, Culture and Media, New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies.
Saturday, October 20. “Nuclear Asia: Prospects for Peace” Outreach Event feapturing film screening and panel discussion. Presented in conjunction with the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) Annual Meeting.
Thursday-Friday, November 1-2. "Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress" symposium on the challenges of and the possibilities for repair, atonement, return, and/or apology as potential ways to address some of the foundational wrongs of the US that have shaped longstanding institutional structures and inequalities. Presented by the RIGS Initiative
Monday, November 5. "Morocco and the Holocaust: The Story of Mohammed V, Protector of the Jews" talk by Daniel Schroeter, History, University of Minnesota. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, November 7. Lecture. Cathleen Giustino, Mills Carter Professor of History, Auburn University. “Recovering Julia’s Things: Jewish Property Claims and the Hard Road to Restitution in Postwar Czechoslovakia”. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies.
Thursday, November 8. Kristallnacht anniversary commemoration lecture. Postcards from Auschwitz: Tourism and Holocaust Remembrance book talk with author and scholar Dan Reynolds, German, Grinnell College. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, & Dutch
Friday, November 16. "Constructing the Enemy: Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in Modern Europe" symposium. Organized by Selim Rauer, Department of French & Italian, and CHGS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow for 2018-2019. Presented by the UMN Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of French & Italian, and Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, Center for German & European Studies, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Human Rights Program, Institute for Advanced Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Institute for Global Studies; Emory University Department of Philosophy and The Alliance Française of Minneapolis/St Paul.
Tuesday, February 4. Community event. CHGS Library Public Education Open House.
Monday, February 25. Lunch and Learn event. Joe Eggers, CHGS Research and Outreach Coordinator, and George Dalbo, PhD student and CHGS Education Coordinator. "Teaching the US-Dakota War Through Minnesota's Newspapers."
Tuesday, February 26. Pamela Potter, Professor of German and Music, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The Ghosts of Denazification in Histories of the Arts." Presented by the Center for German & European Studies.
Tuesday, March 5. Community event. Storyteller Ragnhild A. Mørch performs "Horizon." Presented with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, Institute for Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German & European Studies, and Speaking Out! Storytelling Collective.
Tuesday, March 12. Lecture. Sonja Wentling, Professor of History and Global Studies, Concordia College. "A Tale of Two Cities: Concordia Language Village's 'Waldsee' in the Crucible of History and Memory." Presented with the UMN Institute for Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch; and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC).
Thursday, March 21. "Three Communities, One Voice: A Gathering of Memory and Hope." Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, St. Sahag's Armenian Church, St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University.
Monday, April 1. 2019 Ohanessian Lecture. Armen T. Marsoobian, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University. "Presencing an Absence: Accountability and Memory in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide." Presented by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair.
Tuesday, April 9. Lecture. Philipp Ther, Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, and Visiting Fellow visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University. “The History of Refugees in an Enlarged Europe.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored with the Department of History, Immigration History Research Center, Center for German & European Studies, and Institute for Global Studies.
Monday, April 15. Lunch and Learn event. Artyom Tonoyan, CHGS Research Associate. "Rethinking Religion in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict."
Tuesday, April 23. Commemorative Lecture. Jean-Pierre Karegeye, Visiting Scholar, Dickinson College. "Rwanda. Remembering Genocide with Resilience: the Voices of Women Survivors." Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, made possible by the Wexler Special Events fund for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
2017-2018
Thursday, January 25, 7:00 PM, St. Paul Student Center
*International Holocaust Remembrance Day*
"Speaking Truth to Power: The White Rose Student Anti-Nazi Resistance and Heroes in the Fight for Human Rights Today" lecture by Dr. Jud Newborn, author.
Presented by St. Cloud State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), cosponsored by CHGS.
Sunday, February 18, 4:00 PM, Ted Mann Concert Hall
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar" & Linda Tutas Haugen's "Anne Frank: A Living Voice" doctoral recital conducted by Ahmed Ansaldua and Kira Winter, School of Music, University of Minnesota.
Presented by the School of Music, cosponsored by CHGS and the Center for Austrian Studies.
Monday, February 19, 2:30 PM, 370 Anderson Hall
"The Nazi Policy Against Homosexuals: Policing Behaviour in the People's Community (Volksgemeinschaft)" lecture by Professor Jennifer V. Evans, History, Carleton University, Ontario.
Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and CHGS, cosponsored by Metropolitan State University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).
Monday, February 19, 6:00 PM, Founders Hall Auditorium, Metropolitan State University
"Pink Triangle Persecution: In History and Memory." lecture by Professor Jennifer V. Evans, History, Carleton University, Ontario.
Presented by Metropolitan State University, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).
Thursday, February 22, 4:00 PM, 710 Social Sciences Building
"Narrating the 'Righteous' in the Colombian Armed Conflict: A civil pedagogy of solidarity for highly polarized and deeply divided societies" lecture by Professor Carlo Tognato, Sociology, National University of Colombia.
Presented by CHGS, cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.
Tuesday, March 6, 5:00 PM, 120 Andersen Library
"Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance" lecture by Professor Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California - Los Angeles.
Presented as part of the Seeking Refuge in a Changing World series organized by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies, African Studies Initiative, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Human Rights Program, and the Immigration History Research Center. Made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation and the Wexler Special Events Fund for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Thursday, March 22, 6:00 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
"Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union" lecture by Professor Natalie Belsky, History, University of Minnesota Duluth.
Presented by CHGS and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) and the Russian-American Jews in Minnesota (RAJMN).
Thursday-Friday, April 12-13, 120 Andersen Library
"Reframing Mass Violence in Africa: Social Memory and Social Justice" symposium with keynote by Professor Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, English, and Black Studies Program Director, Creighton University, and CHGS sponsored talk "Remembering and Representing Genocide: Darfur and Rwanda" by Wahutu Siguru, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Fellow, Harvard University.
Presented by the African Studies Initiative (ASI), cosponsored by CHGS and others.
Thursday, April 19, 9:00 AM-4:15 PM, 120 Andersen Library
"Seeking Refuge in a Changing World" symposium with keynote address by Professor Maria Christina Garcia, History, Cornell University.
Part of the Seeking Refuge in a Changing World collaboration with the Institute for Global Studies, African Studies Initiative, Center for German & European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Program, and the Immigration History Research Center.
Monday, April 30, 7:00 PM, 3M Auditorium, Carlson School of Management
*2018 Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture*
"Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009" lecture by Professor Fatma Muge Gocek, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan.
Presented by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair; cosponsored by CHGS, the Center for Austrian Studies, and the Center for German & European Studies.
Tuesday, May 1, 4:00 PM, 710 Social Sciences
"The 1965 Killings and Lingering Stigma in Indonesia" lecture by Dr. Martha Stroud, Research Program Officer, USC Shoah Foundation.
Presented by CHGS and the USC Shoah Foundation, made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Tuesday, May 1, 5:30 PM, 710 Social Sciences
"Genocide Survivor Testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive" presentation and workshop by Dr. Martha Stroud, Research Program Officer, USC Shoah Foundation, on how to use this tool for research, instruction, and genocide awareness outreach. To be followed by CHGS Library public and educator open house.
Presented by CHGS and the USC Shoah Foundation, made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Monday, May 7, 2:30 PM, 1114 Social Sciences Building
"There’s No Such Thing as Memory, and Even if There Is, It’s Not What You Think" lecture by Professor Jeffrey Olick, Sociology and History, and Chair (Sociology), University of Virginia.
Presented by CHGS, the Department of Sociology, and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Tuesday, May 8, 12:00 PM, 1210 Heller Hall
"The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method" lecture by Professor Jeffrey Olick, Sociology and History, and Chair (Sociology), University of Virginia.
Presented by CHGS and the Center for German & European Studies, made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Monday, December 4
On the Legacy of the Holocaust in Lithuania
Ruta Vanagaite, author
Thursday, November 9
*Kristallnacht anniversary commemoration*
"Divergent Italian and German Models to Confront the Holocaust: What Does it Mean for the Formation of Trans-European Identity?"
Aline Sierp, European Studies, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Wednesday-Friday, November 1-3
"Truth, Trials, and Memory: Transitional Justice in El Salvador and Guatemala" international symposium
Thursday, September 28
“The Echoes of The Secret Annex in Castilian Spanish: Challenge and Exploitation of the American Mythification of Anne Frank”
María Jesús Fernández Gil, Department of Modern Philology, University of Alcalá
Wednesday, September 27
Talk and tour of Bdote Dakota site at Fort Snelling State Park, Iyekiyapewin Darlene St. Clair
Tuesday-Wednesday, September 26-27
Atlantic Institute 2017
"Reframing Mass Violence: Genocide and Memory Studies in Dialogue" graduate student workshop
Friday, September 15
“Martin Luther's assault on Judaism: Scripture and Prophecy in the Reformation"
Euan Cameron, Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary; Religion, Columbia University
Thursday, September 14
“Working Out the Past: Post WWII German relations with France, Israel, Poland, and Czechoslovakia and their Relevance to Asian Debates on Reconciliation"
Lily Gardner Feldman, Society, Culture and Politics, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, September 13
“Reflections on A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anti-Communists, Racism and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota 1930-1942"
Riv-Ellen Prell, American Studies, Sarah Atwood, American Studies, John Wright, African American & African Studies and English, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, September 13
Seeking Refuge in a Changing World opening event with photojournalism exhibition from WWII Displaced Persons Camps
2016-2017
May 9, 2017
"Teaching the Holocaust through Art" educator workshop
May 3, 2017
"Conveying the Unspeakable: Art and the History Museum," panel event featuring Yehudit Shendar, retired Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Yad Vashem, Daniel Spock, Director, Minnesota History Center Museum, and Lin Nelson-Mayson, Director, UMN Goldstein Museum of Design
April 26, 2017
“Yad Vashem: Beyond the Museum" a virtual tour of Israel’s Holocaust memorial, and talk by Yehudit Shendar, retired Museum Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Yad Vashem
April 20, 2017
Screening of "Nous avons bu la même eau" ("We Drank the Same Water"), a film about the Armenian Genocide, and Q&A with film director Serge Avedikian
April 19,2017
Exhibition Opening, "[Re]Telling: Holocaust Art" exhibit opening and reception for UMN visiting scholar Yehudit Shendar
April 10, 2017
Book release event with: Philip Spencer, Kingston University, Antisemitism and the Left: The Return of the Jewish Question and Bruno Chaouat, UMN, Is Theory Good for the Jews?
April 7, 2017
International Symposium, "Comparative Genocide Studies and the Holocaust: Conflict and Convergence"
April 6, 2017
Symposium Keynote and 2017 Ohanessian Lecture, Timothy Snyder, Yale University, "The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present"
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Tour of Bdote, sacred Dakota site at Ft. Snelling State Park Iyekiyapiwin Derlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University
February 14, 2017
"The Mitzvah Project" A one-man performance and presentation about the "Mischlinge" Nazi soldiers of Jewish descent by Roger Grunwald
February 7, 2017
"Rascals, Fugitives, and Gentlemen: The Hidden History of Jews and Photojournalism" by Michael Berkowitz, University College London
February 7, 2017
"American Jews, Photography, and Moviemaking During the Second World War: An Alternative Cultural
February 3, 2017
"Jews and Ukrainians: A Millenium of Co-Existence" Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto History" by Michael Berkowitz, University College London
February 2, 2017
Principled Voices: "Fighting Corruption and Advocating for Human Rights in Armenia" by Edmon Marukyan, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
January 26, 2017
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration, "A Voice of Conscience" by Father Patrick Desbois
November 16, 2016
“Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights” panel with Franciso Ferrándiz, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Antonius Robben, University of Utrecht, and Barbara Frey, UMN.
November 14-15, 2016
“Futures, Challenges, and Transformations for Transitional Justice” workshop with CHGS talk by Sidney Blanco, Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of El Salvador
November 2, 2016
“Reflections on the Unspoken” event featuring UMN faculty Rebecca Krinke and Leslie Morris reading from her memoir on her family’s Holocaust history, with vocalist Ryland Angel
October 26, 2016
“Can the Story Be Told? History, Memory and Fiction in the Representation of Extreme Violence in Latin America” lecture by Carlos Pabón, University of Puerto Rico
September 29-30, 2016
“State and Society in Late Imperial Austria: A Symposium in Honor of Gary Cohen”
September 29, 2016
“Displaced: Photos and Remembrances of Maxine Rude, 1945-1946” exhibit tours and opening reception
September 21-23, 2016
“Local Action in Response to Migration” third annual international conference
2015-2016
May 15, 2016
Broucci (Fireflies) performance by children of Czech and Slovak School Twin Cities and Sokol Minnesota Taneční Mládež
May 5, 2016
“The Role of Historical Hate Representations in the Murder of Neighbors in Rwanda (1994) and Poland (World War II)” lecture by Sidi N’diaye, Research Fellow at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 28, 2016
Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur book talk by Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota
April 27, 2016
Displaced: The Semiotics of Identity exhibit opening for show curated by students in a semester-long Department of Art workshop
April 20, 2016
Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness book talk by Arlene Stein, Rutgers University
April 19, 2016
“‘No Soul’: Hans Asperger and the Nazi Origins of Autism” lecture by Edith Sheffer, Stanford University
April 14, 2016
2016 Ohanessian Lecture: “The Armenian Genocide and Cultural Destruction” by Peter Balakian, Colgate University
April 3, 2016
“Minnesota’s own Dark History: Bdote Dakota Site at Fort Snelling State Park” talk and walking tour by lyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University
March 30, 2016
“Armenian Genocide Education and the Community” lecture by Lou Ann Matossian
March 25, 2016
Testigos de un Etnocidio: Memorias de Resistencia film screening and discussion of documentary by Marta Rodríguez
March 9, 2016
“Antisemitism in Today’s Europe: Between Neo-Nationalism and Global Terrorism” panel discussion with Kenneth Marcus (Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law), Gunther Jikeli (Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University), and UMN faculty Eric Schwartz, Bruno Chaouat, and Patricia Lorcin
February 24, 2016
Pretty Village film screening and discussion with producer Kemal Pervanic on the legacy of genocide in Bosnia
February 18, 2016
“The Spanish Paradox: Spain as a Passive Accomplice and ‘Savior’ to the Holocaust” lecture by Pedro Correa, Research Fellow at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
February 3, 2016
“On the Margins of the Holocaust: Jews and Muslims in the Colonial Maghreb During World War II” lecture by Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota
January 26, 2016
Displaced: Photos and Remembrances of Maxine Rude, 1945-1946 exhibit installation of photojournalism in the Eiger-Zaidenweber Resource Center at the Sabes JCC (through January, 2017)
December 1, 2015
“Reflections on the Comparison of Jews and Native Americans as Victims” lecture by Leo Reigert, Kenyon College
November 18, 2015
“Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making of a Virtual Indian Residential School” lecture by Adam Muller, University of Manitoba
November 6, 2016
"Symbols of Power and Fragility: Monuments of Medieval Armenian Church Architecture” lecture by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
October 21, 2015
"The Great Fire at Smyrna and the Genocide of the Ottoman Greek and Armenian Population" book talk by author Lou Ureneck, Boston University
October 13, 2015
Als Ob/ As If film installation and coffee with artist Daniel Blaufuks
October 13, 2015
“Als Ob/ As If” artist talk by Daniel Blaufuks, and roundtable discussion with David Harris (RIMON) and UMN faculty members Gary Cohen, Alice Lovejoy, Leslie Morris, and Paula Rabinowitz
September 29, 2015
“Hibakusha Peace Talk” by atomic bomb survivor Michiko Harada
September 24, 2015
‘If that’s True, then I’m a Murderer!’ Adolf Storms and the Massacre of Hungarian Jews in Deutsch Schuetzen film screening and discussion with director Walter Manoschek, University of Vienna
September 16, 2015
“The Last Jews: Intermarried Families in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” lecture by Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University
September 13, 2015
Performance of Why We Laugh followed by talk “Translating Terezin” by scholar Lisa Peschel, University of York
2014-2015
May 8, 2015
“The Past: Between History and Memory” as part of international symposium, “War, What is it Good For? Uses and Abuses of Second World War History” Keynote Lecture by Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)
April 23, 2015
“The Armenian Genocide Historiography on the Eve of the Centennial: from Continuity to Contingency” keynote lecture by Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
April 23, 2015
“‘We are going to pick Potatoes’ Norway and the Holocaust, the Untold Story” lecture by Irene Berman, Holocaust survivor and author
April 23, 2015
Panel with “Shanghailanders” featuring Manny Gabler and Ellen Wiss, who lived in Shanghai as Jewish refugees during the Holocaust; moderated by Alejandro Baer
April 21, 2015
“What Does History Know of Nail Biting?” Minneapolis video project premiere by artist Francesc Torres
April 20, 2015
“Curating Memories in Conflict: new enthography in an old museum” lecture by Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Montreal)
April 14, 2015
“The Insatiable Pursuit of Art: Nazi Art Looting – Perpetrators, Victims, Provenance Researchers” lecture by Yehudit Shendar (Yad Vashem, Israel)
April 10, 2015
“A Usable Body: Coaxing the Body Into and Out of Captivity at Black History Museums” lecture by Robyn Autry (Wesleyan University)
March 10, 2015
“Action and Body Knowledge: A Sociological Perspective on Torture” lecture by Katharina Inhetveen (University of Siegen, Germany)
March 6, 2015
“Heideggerian Ontology and the Holocaust: Piotr Rawicz's Le Sang du ciel" lecture by Sven-Erik Rose (University of California, Davis)
March 4, 2015
“Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe” keynote Lecture by John-Paul Himka (University of Alberta)
January 29, 2015
“Can One Laugh at Everything? Satire and Free Speech after Charlie”
CLA Panel with William Beeman, Jane Kirtley, Bruno Chaouat, Anthony Winer (William Mitchell College of Law), and Steven Sack (Minneapolis Star and Tribune)
January 26, 2015
"Bearing Witness 70 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz" featuring artist Felix de la Concha's "Portraits and Conversations with Survivors of the Shoah" and honoring Holocaust survivor participants from Minnesota
November 24-26, 2014
“Bystanders, Rescuers, or Perpetrators? The Neutrals and the Shoah: Facts, Myths, and Counter-Myths” conference in Madrid, Spain
November 20, 2014
“Surviving Forced Disappearance: Identity and Meaning” lecture by Gabriel Gatti (University of the Basque Country)
November 3, 2014
“Just A War Theory? American Public Attitudes on Proportionality and Distinction” lecture by Benjamin Valentino (Dartmouth College)
November 1 & 2, 2014
The German Friend (Der Deutsche Freund), and 24 Days (24 Jours: La Verite sur l'affaire Ilan Halimi) film screenings at the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival
October 22, 2014
“Classical Rhetorics, Technical Communication, the Holocaust, and the Object Beyond” lecture by Steven Katz (Clemson University)
September 22, 2014
“Our Mothers, Our Heimat, Our Holocaust: ‘Ordinary’ Nazis on German Television, 1984-2014” lecture by Offer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
September 18, 2014
“Convert or Die: Christian Persecution and the Rise of the Islamic State” round table discussion with French author Richard Millet
2013-2014
April 13, 2014
“The Last of the Unjust” film by Claude Lanzmann, was featured at the Minneapolis Film Festival with an introduction by Bruno Chaoaut, former CHGS director
April 10, 2014
“Aftermath” film by Wladyslaw Pasikowski, featured at the Minneapolis Film Festival with an introduction by Alejandro Baer
April 7-10, 2014
“Flickering Images: The Holocaust in American Film and Television” Jodi Elowitz presented on representations of the Holocaust in American media at Gateway Community College in Phoenix, Arizona
April 3, 2014
“Laughter in the Dark: Newly Discovered Songs and Sketched from the Terezín/ Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-44” lecture by Lisa Peschel of the University of York’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Television
February 6, 2014
“Remembering the Holocaust in Literature, Film, and Theology” panel event at Bethel University with Alejandro Baer
February 6, 2014
“War, Genocide, & Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work” lecture by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut at Storrs
February 5, 2014
“Global Holocaust Memory and the New Antisemitism” lecture by Alejandro Baer
December 5, 2013
“Antisemitism Then and Now” panel with Philip Spencer of Kingston University, Chad Allen Goldberg of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zsolt Nagy of the University of St. Thomas, Gary Cohen of the University of Minnesota, and Bruno Chaouat of the University of Minnesota and former CHGS director
November 21, 2013
“Bearing Witness” talk by Dora Zaidenweber to the public and students in the History of the Holocaust course
November 20, 2013
“The Concept of Survival” lecture by Falko Schmieder, DAAD visiting professor at the University of Minnesota
November 12, 2013
“A Film Unfinished” documentary screening with the producer Noemi Schory
November 9, 2013
“History, Memory, and Pedagogy” professional development workshop examining the genocide of the Roma during World War II, commemorations of the Holocaust, and reflections on the anniversary of Kristallnacht
November 9, 2013
“BESA: The Promise” film screening with introduction by CHGS Advisory Board member and Professor of History Daniel Schroeter
October 17, 2013
“The Musa Dagh Resistance to the Armenian Genocide and Its Impact through Franz Werfel’s Historical Novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” lecture by Dr. Vahram Shemmassian, Associate Professor and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University in Northridge
September 20, 2013
“The Discovery of the ‘New World’ and Traditions of Othering” lecture by Pedro Martinez Garcia of the University of Bayreuth in Germany
September 11, 2013
“Countering Mass Atrocities in Syria: Between Human Rights Ideals and Geo-Political Concerns” panel with Sarah Parkingson and Ragui Assaad of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Ron Krebs of the Department of Political Science, and Dr. Wael Khouli and Mazen Halibi
2012-2013
April 11, 2013
“Scripting the Shoah: The Holocaust in Moroccan Official and Public Discourses” lecture by Aomar Boum of the University of Arizona
April 4, 2013
“Jewish Memory and the Cosomopolitan Order Towards a Sociology of Human Rights” lecture by Natan Sznaider, Professor of Sociology at Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
April 3, 2013
“The Future’s Past” special film screening with the director Susan Brandstaetter
March 10, 2013
“Becoming Henry” film screening
March 3, 2013
“Six Million and One” film screening
November 13. 2012
“Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain” lecture by Alejandro Baer
October 26, 2012
“Did Elie Wiesel Christianize the Holocaust?” lecture by Alan Astro of Trinity University