Tigermedia - Planting New Roots: Picturing Jewish and Native Migration Narratives in the Museum
Planting New Roots: Picturing Jewish and Native Migration Narratives in the Museum
Date: October 28th, 2021
Duration:
59m:20s
This lecture was recorded on October 28, 2021. Museums and historical centers regularly showcase exhibitions about the migrations of different populations, including how events of the past affect them today. For many Jewish Americans, the Holocaust and the resulting migration out of Europe plays a central role in defining their identities today. The forced migrations and other atrocities committed against Indigenous people of the United States living in what is now called Oklahoma has had a similarly profound impact. The program features Kathryn Lloyd, Senior Director of Programs & Interpretation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and Stacey Halfmoon, Senior Director of The Choctaw Cultural Center, both of whom discuss the power of survival and points of connection between two seemingly different groups of peoples, as well as the disparate struggles they faced on their paths to carve out communities in contemporary America. This event is part of the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and Queensborough Community College’s Gallery and Museum Studies Program's "Human Rights and the Museum" series and was co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University.
The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, student-focused initiatives, our National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquia series, and lectures about our originally researched exhibitions. For more information about the KHC, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu