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Genetic Discrimination: Exploring the Echoes between Nazi and American Eugenic Histories
When Adolf Hitler established the involuntary euthanasia program in 1939 codenamed Aktion T4, he empowered medical personnel throughout the Third Reich to sterilize and kill those deemed “unworthy of life.” Join Tiarra Maznic...

SGA Elections: Candidates Forum (2024)

Performance as Witness: Recognizing the Rhetoric that Leads to Violence
Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how ...

Paragraph 175: The Contemporary Impact of Nazi-era Homophobia and Persecution
Paragraph 175 was an 1871 German statute criminalizing sexual relations between men. Predating the Nazi regime, it was revised in 1935 allowing the Nazis to persecute larger numbers of men more aggressively. Join Dr. Jake New...

Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, BENT
During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join Dr. Jake New...

Identity in Context: Building the American LGBTQ+ Museum
In a time when students and museum professionals are questioning the structures and even the founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions, this program looks at the more recent creation of the American LGBTQ...

Education and Activism (post performance talkback, Julio Ain’t Goin’ Down Like That)
Daniel Dromm, former member of the NYC Council. and C. Julian Jiménez, playwright, in conversation.

Art as Archive: Celebration & Protest (post performance talkback, Julio Ain’t Goin’ Down Like That)
Dr. Laura Cohen, Executive Director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC), moderates a discussion between documentarian Richard Shpuntoff and playwright C. Julian Jiménez.

Uncomfortable Histories: From Nazi Book Burnings to Contemporary Book Bans
Join us for a conversation about the erasure of uncomfortable histories, beginning with an overview of the 1933 Nazi book burnings as part of Adolf Hitler’s plan to “cleanse” public discourse and participate in an “Action Aga...

QCC Medical Assistant AAS Degree Program
For more information, go to: https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/academics/degree-programs/aas-medical-assistant.html

2024 Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis - 85 Years Later
In July 1938, international diplomats from 32 countries gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Reich. In commemoration of Internation...

Nursing Candle Lighting Ceremony (January 2024)

BFSA's 3rd Annual Kwanzaa Celebration
Queensborough’s Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) along with QCC Dance Students hosted the third annual Kwanzaa Celebration. Led by Professor Kevin McIntosh-McEwen in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and...

Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws
Hitler and the Nazis looked to the US’s eugenics movement, Jim Crow laws, and culture of white supremacy in their quest to racialize European Jews, a policy that was first enshrined in the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws. In this co...

Health Sciences: Information Session (Fall 2023)

2023 Kristallnacht Commemoration: The State of Holocaust Education in the U.S. Today
With antisemitism on the rise around the world, the demand for Holocaust education has become even more pressing. About half of the states in the United States have mandated Holocaust education while museums and academic prog...

Archives of Nostalgia: Exploring America’s Many Pasts
How do archival collections and their commercialization frame contemporary American narratives of belonging? Join us for this roundtable discussion examining the archives of nostalgic American pasts, including memorabilia rel...

Building and Sustaining Indigenous Cultural Institutions of Today
At a moment when museum professionals and cultural workers are questioning the structures and founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions that came out of earlier colonial contexts, this program looks at th...

Humans of Queensborough: C. Julian Jiménez

Poetry Workshop with Nathan McClain
Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the English Department is hosting a poetry workshop with Nathan McClain as part of the Welcome Read program. Students will learn about the craft of poetry as N...