Opening Statements Conclude in Khmer Rouge Leaders Trial
Monday, November 28, 2011
Applications Being Taken for Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow: A Bridge To History
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program is a three week study trip
for students who are matriculated in graduate programs or are completing
undergraduate degrees in 2012 in Holocaust studies and related fields.
The Fellows Program will take place from July 1 through July 24, 2012.
The Application:
Applications can be found at:https://mjhnyc.wufoo.com/forms/auschwitz-jewish-center-fellows-program/
Completed applications must be received by January 17, 2012. Candidates will be informed of their status by February 29, 2012. For further information, please contact Shiri Sandler at AJC@mjhnyc.org.
For full details please visit the Jewish Museum web site.
for students who are matriculated in graduate programs or are completing
undergraduate degrees in 2012 in Holocaust studies and related fields.
The Fellows Program will take place from July 1 through July 24, 2012.
The Application:
Applications can be found at:https://mjhnyc.wufoo.com/forms/auschwitz-jewish-center-fellows-program/
Completed applications must be received by January 17, 2012. Candidates will be informed of their status by February 29, 2012. For further information, please contact Shiri Sandler at AJC@mjhnyc.org.
For full details please visit the Jewish Museum web site.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Jungle Theater Presents I Am My Own Wife
I Am My Own Wife
By Doug Wright
Directed by Joel Sass
Starring Bradley Greenwald
Now through December 18, 2011
The Jungle Theater
"Museum. Furniture. Men. This is the order in which I have lived my life." - Charlotte
The Jungle reunites actor Bradley Greenwald and director Joel Sass to tell the astounding true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Collector of antiques, non-conformist, and guardian of the past, Charlotte survived the Nazi terror and the communist oppression of East Germany. What makes her story so extraordinary is that Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a man, and lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. One of the most popular shows the Jungle has produced, and winner of a 2006 IVEY Award for Performance. Not to be missed!
For tickets and information please click here.
Group rates for 10+, including student rates. Call Group Sales Manager Deb Sand at 612-278-0147.
By Doug Wright
Directed by Joel Sass
Starring Bradley Greenwald
Now through December 18, 2011
The Jungle Theater
"Museum. Furniture. Men. This is the order in which I have lived my life." - Charlotte
The Jungle reunites actor Bradley Greenwald and director Joel Sass to tell the astounding true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Collector of antiques, non-conformist, and guardian of the past, Charlotte survived the Nazi terror and the communist oppression of East Germany. What makes her story so extraordinary is that Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a man, and lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. One of the most popular shows the Jungle has produced, and winner of a 2006 IVEY Award for Performance. Not to be missed!
For tickets and information please click here.
Group rates for 10+, including student rates. Call Group Sales Manager Deb Sand at 612-278-0147.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
"The Responsibility to Protect" The Hon. Lloyd Axworthy President of the University of Winnipeg
Tuesday, November 22, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Room 25, Law School, Mondale Hall, West Bank, University of Minnesota
Dr. Axworthy, a former Canadian Minister of External Affairs and Ambassador to the UN, served twice as President of the UN Security Council. He is know for his advocacy of an International Criminal Court, as a Champion of the "Responsibility to Protect" principle, and for his work on the abolition of land mines, for which he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The rights of States traditionally trumped the rights of people. But in 2005 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approved a fundamentally new concept of what sovereignty meant, declaring that it not only gave States certain rights, but also entailed the responsibility of States to protect their own citizens.
Further, the new doctrine stipulated that when States failed to uphold this responsibility, the international community, acting through the UN, had not only a right, but an obligation, to act in the interest of endangered populations and could even use force to do so, though only as a last resort, when all other means of peaceful intervention had been exhausted.
Laudable though the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine appears, it must be admitted that the international resolve to apply it has been wanting on multiple occasions. Why this is so and what can be done about the problem will be addressed by Dr. Axworthy during the course of his presentation.
Sponsoring organizations: Minnesota Chapter, Citizens for Global Solutions; United Nations Association of Minnesota; Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, Advocates for Human Rights; Canadian Consulate General, Minneapolis; Advocates for Human Rights; World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law; the Minnesota International Center; and the following units of the University of Minnesota: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Center of the Law School, Human Rights Program of the College of Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.
Room 25, Law School, Mondale Hall, West Bank, University of Minnesota
Dr. Axworthy, a former Canadian Minister of External Affairs and Ambassador to the UN, served twice as President of the UN Security Council. He is know for his advocacy of an International Criminal Court, as a Champion of the "Responsibility to Protect" principle, and for his work on the abolition of land mines, for which he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The rights of States traditionally trumped the rights of people. But in 2005 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approved a fundamentally new concept of what sovereignty meant, declaring that it not only gave States certain rights, but also entailed the responsibility of States to protect their own citizens.
Further, the new doctrine stipulated that when States failed to uphold this responsibility, the international community, acting through the UN, had not only a right, but an obligation, to act in the interest of endangered populations and could even use force to do so, though only as a last resort, when all other means of peaceful intervention had been exhausted.
Laudable though the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine appears, it must be admitted that the international resolve to apply it has been wanting on multiple occasions. Why this is so and what can be done about the problem will be addressed by Dr. Axworthy during the course of his presentation.
Sponsoring organizations: Minnesota Chapter, Citizens for Global Solutions; United Nations Association of Minnesota; Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, Advocates for Human Rights; Canadian Consulate General, Minneapolis; Advocates for Human Rights; World Without Genocide at William Mitchell College of Law; the Minnesota International Center; and the following units of the University of Minnesota: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Center of the Law School, Human Rights Program of the College of Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Holocaust Survivor, Doctor Robert Fisch's "Metamorphosis to Freedom" Exhibition Now on Display
Now through December 5
Normandale Community College
9700 France Ave S
Bloomington, MN
"Metamorphosis to Freedom, " is an exhibition including paintings and prose by Dr. Robert O. Fisch, is a narrative of his personal journey from suppression to freedom and underscores the importance and privilege of being free.
For more information on the Normandale Community College showing please click here.
For more on Dr. Fisch please visit his CHGS web page.
Normandale Community College
9700 France Ave S
Bloomington, MN
"Metamorphosis to Freedom, " is an exhibition including paintings and prose by Dr. Robert O. Fisch, is a narrative of his personal journey from suppression to freedom and underscores the importance and privilege of being free.
For more information on the Normandale Community College showing please click here.
For more on Dr. Fisch please visit his CHGS web page.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Premiere theatrical production looks at life between friends in Nazi occupied Poland
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
October 29 - November 20, 2011
Minnesota Jewish Theater Company
It's Poland in 1925, and 10 young Jewish and Catholic children, all class mates, share their dreams of what they would like to be when they grow up. As the friends grow older, things in their small town change. Poland is first invaded by the Soviets and then the Nazis. A fervent nationalism develops and bitterness ensues. In a series of events, friends betray each other and violence escalates to an unimaginable end. Based on true events, Our Class explores human behavior with a captivating boldness.
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
In a version by Ryan Craig
Directed by Miriam Monasch
For tickets and more information click here.
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
October 29 - November 20, 2011
Minnesota Jewish Theater Company
It's Poland in 1925, and 10 young Jewish and Catholic children, all class mates, share their dreams of what they would like to be when they grow up. As the friends grow older, things in their small town change. Poland is first invaded by the Soviets and then the Nazis. A fervent nationalism develops and bitterness ensues. In a series of events, friends betray each other and violence escalates to an unimaginable end. Based on true events, Our Class explores human behavior with a captivating boldness.
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
In a version by Ryan Craig
Directed by Miriam Monasch
For tickets and more information click here.
The Post Holocaust Golem: A Jewish Legend Returns
Dr. Elizabeth Baer
Wednesday, November 9
4:00p.m.
Room 710
Social Sciences Building
The Jewish legend of the golem tells of a clay man brought to life to serve as a heroic figure in the Jewish community of 16th century Prague. His story has been recounted in many texts yet the golem has also gone through long periods of dormancy in his history, only to be brought back to life in key moments within the Jewish experience.
Dr. Baer argues that contemporary Jewish-American writers have created golem stories as a re-imagining of text-centered Jewish traditions by appropriating, adapting, revising and riffing on older golem legends. Such appropriation, deploying the imagination to seek a better understanding of human nature, is crucial in light of the Holocaust experience under the Nazis. This presentation includes golems from novels, comic books, graphic narratives, and the X-Files.
Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her new book The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction from Wayne State University Press will appear in Spring 2012.
Event flier: Ebaerfin.pdf
Wednesday, November 9
4:00p.m.
Room 710
Social Sciences Building
The Jewish legend of the golem tells of a clay man brought to life to serve as a heroic figure in the Jewish community of 16th century Prague. His story has been recounted in many texts yet the golem has also gone through long periods of dormancy in his history, only to be brought back to life in key moments within the Jewish experience.
Dr. Baer argues that contemporary Jewish-American writers have created golem stories as a re-imagining of text-centered Jewish traditions by appropriating, adapting, revising and riffing on older golem legends. Such appropriation, deploying the imagination to seek a better understanding of human nature, is crucial in light of the Holocaust experience under the Nazis. This presentation includes golems from novels, comic books, graphic narratives, and the X-Files.
Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her new book The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction from Wayne State University Press will appear in Spring 2012.
Event flier: Ebaerfin.pdf
Monday, November 7, 2011
Ghost Stories: Five Writers Read Works on Historical Trauma
Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis 55411
African- American, Hmong, Japanese-American, Jewish and White Earth Anishinabe writers explore how the stories of their parents, grandparents and historical communities impact the writers' own lives. From the ridiculous to the tragic, the writers examine the legacies of the Holocaust, war, racism and genocide.
The Readers: Carolyn Holbrook, Mai Neng Moua, Margie Newman, Marcie Rendon, Joan Maeda Trygg.
Admission: Five dollars includes a chapbook containing work by the five writers. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
This project was made possible, in part, with the support of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, and with the support of the St. Paul JCC.
This project is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
For further information contact: Mai Neng Moua, mainengmoua@comcast.net, 612 226 6046.
7:00 p.m.
Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis 55411
African- American, Hmong, Japanese-American, Jewish and White Earth Anishinabe writers explore how the stories of their parents, grandparents and historical communities impact the writers' own lives. From the ridiculous to the tragic, the writers examine the legacies of the Holocaust, war, racism and genocide.
The Readers: Carolyn Holbrook, Mai Neng Moua, Margie Newman, Marcie Rendon, Joan Maeda Trygg.
Admission: Five dollars includes a chapbook containing work by the five writers. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
This project was made possible, in part, with the support of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, and with the support of the St. Paul JCC.
This project is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
For further information contact: Mai Neng Moua, mainengmoua@comcast.net, 612 226 6046.
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