Danyelle Means, the Consulting Curator for the upcoming Survivance & Sovereignty on Turtle Island Exhibitand former Exhibitions Director for the National Museum of the Americ...
Peace Education As Inoculation Against Complicity & Injustice
Colman McCarthy is a pioneer in peace education in the Washington, DC area. A prominent journalist for such esteemed publications as The Washington Post, and longtime peace activist, he is the founder and president for the Ce...
Wartime Defection: Resistance and Rescue in Genocide
Prominent scholar and UCLA faculty member Dr. Aliza Luft will discuss her research on rescue behavior during mass atrocities and genocide. Her presentation will focus on decision-making in violent contexts and how people shif...
Remembering the Good: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance in a French Village
From 1939 to 1945, the villagers of the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon, France, hid, protected, and ultimately rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis at great peril to their own lives. Their nearly unparalleled actions during the ...
Some were Neighbors: Complicity & Collaboration
Some were Neighbors: Complicity & Collaboration, a Workshop with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Wednesday, September 13th
12:10-2:00pm
NEH 2017-18 Event: Complicity & Collaboration
Girlhood, Displacement, and Resistance during the Japanese Occupation
Dr. Alves addresses displacement, victimhood, survival, and resistance through the girlhood narratives of her familys flight from persecution
during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, supplying the historical and c...
Gender, Genocide, and Justice in Rwanda
Ms. Roxanne Krystalli, Dr. Sara E. Brown, and Ms. Samantha Lakin apply a gender lens to the events of the Rwandan genocide and issues of reparations and political representation in post-genocide Rwanda.
Forgotten Witnesses: Gender-Based Violence in Asia During World War II
Dr. Jimin Kim and Ms. Chang-Jin Lee introduce the topic of sexual enslavement during World War II. Focusing on the experiences of "comfort women," they attend to the more than 200,000 Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, ...
Spanish Women and Facism Under the Francoist Dictatorship
Professor Soledad Luque Delgado and Drs. Arnzazu Borrachero and Aurora G. Morcillo present their research on womens experiences during the thirty-six year Francoist dictatorship in Spain. Professor Delgado, who teaches phon...
Understanding the International Tracing Service
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the ITS Research Branch at the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Dr. Afoumado will provide a...
Gendered Experiences in, and Memories of, the Nazi Holocaust
Gendered Experiences in, and Memories of, the Nazi Holocaust
Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Queensborough Community College
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the Remembe...
2015 Kristallnacht Commemoration: The Moment That Changed Everything
The KHRCA honors the memory of the violent anti-Jewish pograms that took place on November 9-10th, 1938 in Germany, annexed Austria, and occupied areas of Czechoslovakia through a panel discussion by survivors of various ge...
Human Rights and Genocidal Rape
Professor Cynthia Soohoo and Dr. Natalie Nenadic discuss how mass rape came to be established as a war crime, crime against humanity, and crime of genocide. Professor Soohoo is the Director of the International Women's Human ...
Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey offers an introduction to gender research in the field of genocide studies. Arguing that gendered violence is a key element of the crime of genocide, she engages comparative historical methods to d...
Becoming Soviet Jews
Minsk, the present capital of Belarus, was a heavily Jewish city in the decades between the world wars. Recasting our understanding of Soviet Jewish history, Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social cha...
Holding On Through Letters: Jewish Families During the Holocaust
Lecture by Dr. Deborah Dwork of Clark University. Jewish families in Nazi Europe tried to hold onto each other through letters, but wartime conditions applied. Letters were censored and could not be sent between countries at ...
Trans 101
On November 27, 2012, Noah Lewis, a Staff Lawyer at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, speaks to Professor Amy Traver's Introduction to Sociology students about issues relevant to transgender, gender non-confor...