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Monday, December 17, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Art Exhibition In Commemoration of the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862 on View
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi: In Commemoration of the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862 will be on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College from December 17, 2012 through February 8, 2013, with an opening reception Monday, December 17 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, Dakota for "we remember those," features artworks by Dakota and other Native American artists presented in commemoration of the mass execution on December 26, 1862 of 38 Dakota following the end of the Dakota-U.S. War of earlier that year.
The exhibition includes works by artists Janice Albro, Joseph J. Allen, Gordon Coons, Jerry Fogg, Erin Griffin, Jacob Pratt, Mona Smith, Robert Two Bulls, and Gwen Westerman (exhibition co-curator).
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi was organized by the Hillstrom Museum of Art with the assistance of co-curator and participating artist Gwen Westerman. Dr. Westerman is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and is a scholar on the faculty of Minnesota State University, Mankato, serving as professor of English and Humanities there. She is co-author, with Bruce White, of the 2012 book Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, which examines the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection with what is now Minnesota. She wrote an essay for the exhibition about what it means to commemorate the events of December 26, 1862.
A series of programs have been planned in conjunction with Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, including screenings of the recent film Dakota 38 (8 p.m., Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Wallenberg Auditorium, Nobel Hall of Science, Gustavus Adolphus College; and 7 p.m., Thursday, January 10, 2013, Treaty Site History Center, St. Peter); a Round Table Discussion with artists and other members of the Dakota community, moderated by Dakota Elder Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, with a Musical Prelude in the form of a performance by a group of Dakota Elders of the Dakota hymn Lac Qui Parle, presented after an Historical Discussion of the hymn by Dakota Elder Reverend Sidney Byrd; and a lecture by Kevin Gover, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (3:30 p.m., Sunday, January 27, 2013, Alumni Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College).
Programming is presented as a collaborative effort of the Hillstrom Museum of Art with the College of Arts and Humanities of Minnesota State University, Mankato, the Nicollet County Historical Society, and the Building Bridges Conference Committee and the Diversity Center of Gustavus Adolphus College; Kevin Gover's lecture is supported by funds from the Lefler Lecture Fund.
As an historical adjunct to Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, a panel exhibition will be shown in an adjacent space. Titled Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota-U.S. War of 1862, it was created by Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, and Ben Leonard, Director of the Nicollet County Historical Society with students in a 2012 Gustavus January Term class of the same name.
All events are free and open to the public. Regular Museum hours are weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and weekends, 1 to 5 p.m. Please note that the Museum will be closed during the semester break when College classes are not in session, from December 20, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Please visit the Museum's website for further information.
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, Dakota for "we remember those," features artworks by Dakota and other Native American artists presented in commemoration of the mass execution on December 26, 1862 of 38 Dakota following the end of the Dakota-U.S. War of earlier that year.
The exhibition includes works by artists Janice Albro, Joseph J. Allen, Gordon Coons, Jerry Fogg, Erin Griffin, Jacob Pratt, Mona Smith, Robert Two Bulls, and Gwen Westerman (exhibition co-curator).
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi was organized by the Hillstrom Museum of Art with the assistance of co-curator and participating artist Gwen Westerman. Dr. Westerman is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and is a scholar on the faculty of Minnesota State University, Mankato, serving as professor of English and Humanities there. She is co-author, with Bruce White, of the 2012 book Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, which examines the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection with what is now Minnesota. She wrote an essay for the exhibition about what it means to commemorate the events of December 26, 1862.
A series of programs have been planned in conjunction with Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, including screenings of the recent film Dakota 38 (8 p.m., Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Wallenberg Auditorium, Nobel Hall of Science, Gustavus Adolphus College; and 7 p.m., Thursday, January 10, 2013, Treaty Site History Center, St. Peter); a Round Table Discussion with artists and other members of the Dakota community, moderated by Dakota Elder Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, with a Musical Prelude in the form of a performance by a group of Dakota Elders of the Dakota hymn Lac Qui Parle, presented after an Historical Discussion of the hymn by Dakota Elder Reverend Sidney Byrd; and a lecture by Kevin Gover, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (3:30 p.m., Sunday, January 27, 2013, Alumni Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College).
Programming is presented as a collaborative effort of the Hillstrom Museum of Art with the College of Arts and Humanities of Minnesota State University, Mankato, the Nicollet County Historical Society, and the Building Bridges Conference Committee and the Diversity Center of Gustavus Adolphus College; Kevin Gover's lecture is supported by funds from the Lefler Lecture Fund.
As an historical adjunct to Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, a panel exhibition will be shown in an adjacent space. Titled Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota-U.S. War of 1862, it was created by Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, and Ben Leonard, Director of the Nicollet County Historical Society with students in a 2012 Gustavus January Term class of the same name.
All events are free and open to the public. Regular Museum hours are weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and weekends, 1 to 5 p.m. Please note that the Museum will be closed during the semester break when College classes are not in session, from December 20, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Please visit the Museum's website for further information.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
New Blog of Recent Library Acquisitions in Holocaust & Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota Holocaust and Genocide Studies Librarian Susan Gangl has put together a new blog listing recent library acquisitions in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This is a comprehensive list, including call numbers and location the title is available for check out. You may access the site by clicking here.
In addition to the blog, be sure to visit her Holocaust and Genocide library subject page by clicking here.
For titles available in the Center's library please visit our Book & Video Library page.
In addition to the blog, be sure to visit her Holocaust and Genocide library subject page by clicking here.
For titles available in the Center's library please visit our Book & Video Library page.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Visiting Professor Jaime Ginzburg to Present at CHGS Workshop
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies
Friday, December 14
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences Building
"Authoritarianism, Violence and Melancholy"
Professor Ginsberg's presentation is about language and violence. The first part, will focus on torture, considering how different social groups talk about it (considering examples from Brazil and Uruguay). There is a variety of perspectives, including the ways physicians describe it, and the point of view of victims. The Second part will feature a comparison between Hegel and Adorno,dedicated to representation. Aesthetics, Cultural Studies and Literary Theory have important contributions to studies on violence. Consideration will be given to those theroies and more specifically ideas from the Frankfurt School. The last part will be about death, loss and melancholy. It`s necessary to discuss images of death, in a way we can define how cultural production, in authoritarian regimes along the XXth Century, can speak against repression and violence.
Professor Jaime Ginzburg is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo, in Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where he is teaching a graduate seminar on Violence and Democracy. His latest books include, Crítica em tempos de violência. São Paulo: Edusp / Fapesp 2012; Escritas da violência, co-edited with Márcio Seligmann-Silva and Francisco Foot Hardman (Rio de Janeiro: Sette Letras, 2012), Vols. I and II; and Walter Benjamin: rastro, aura e história, co-edited with Sabrina Sedlmayer. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2012.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
Meeting Schedule 11-20-2012.pdf
Friday, December 14
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences Building
"Authoritarianism, Violence and Melancholy"
Professor Ginsberg's presentation is about language and violence. The first part, will focus on torture, considering how different social groups talk about it (considering examples from Brazil and Uruguay). There is a variety of perspectives, including the ways physicians describe it, and the point of view of victims. The Second part will feature a comparison between Hegel and Adorno,dedicated to representation. Aesthetics, Cultural Studies and Literary Theory have important contributions to studies on violence. Consideration will be given to those theroies and more specifically ideas from the Frankfurt School. The last part will be about death, loss and melancholy. It`s necessary to discuss images of death, in a way we can define how cultural production, in authoritarian regimes along the XXth Century, can speak against repression and violence.
Professor Jaime Ginzburg is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo, in Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where he is teaching a graduate seminar on Violence and Democracy. His latest books include, Crítica em tempos de violência. São Paulo: Edusp / Fapesp 2012; Escritas da violência, co-edited with Márcio Seligmann-Silva and Francisco Foot Hardman (Rio de Janeiro: Sette Letras, 2012), Vols. I and II; and Walter Benjamin: rastro, aura e história, co-edited with Sabrina Sedlmayer. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2012.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
Meeting Schedule 11-20-2012.pdf
Alejandro Baer to Teach Mass Media & Society
SOC 4090/ GLOS 4910: Mass Media & Society
Mondays and Wednesdays
11:15-12:30
Spring 2013
This course provides a broad survey of sociological perspectives regarding the role of media (television, radio, printed press, film, and the Internet) in society. The course will examine historical media developments, theoretical frameworks used to analyze media audiences, producers, and effects, the impact of media in popular culture, their role in shaping social memories and the relation between media and violence, including terrorism and genocide.
Professor Baer is the new director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany.
His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.
Mondays and Wednesdays
11:15-12:30
Spring 2013
This course provides a broad survey of sociological perspectives regarding the role of media (television, radio, printed press, film, and the Internet) in society. The course will examine historical media developments, theoretical frameworks used to analyze media audiences, producers, and effects, the impact of media in popular culture, their role in shaping social memories and the relation between media and violence, including terrorism and genocide.
Professor Baer is the new director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany.
His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Rebuilding the Community: Jewish Life in Germany after the Shoah now available to view on YouTube
On Sunday, October 28, 2012 Professor Jay H. Geller spoke to the community about Jewish life in Germany after the Shoah. A video of that talk is available by visiting The Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota YouTube channel.
Even after the Shoah, Jews chose to settle in Germany. Who were these Jews, and why did they decide to remain in a country that had been hostile to their very existence only a few years earlier? How did they deal with antagonism by German neighbors and isolation by Jewish groups abroad? This talk explores the circumstances that led to a renewed Jewish community in post-Holocaust Germany and the alliances that permitted it to flourish.
Jay Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes in Jewish history and modern European history, with a focus on Germany. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, and co-editor of Three-Way Street: Germans, Jews, and the Transnational with Leslie Morris. He is currently writing a biography of Gershom Scholem and his family.
Even after the Shoah, Jews chose to settle in Germany. Who were these Jews, and why did they decide to remain in a country that had been hostile to their very existence only a few years earlier? How did they deal with antagonism by German neighbors and isolation by Jewish groups abroad? This talk explores the circumstances that led to a renewed Jewish community in post-Holocaust Germany and the alliances that permitted it to flourish.
Jay Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes in Jewish history and modern European history, with a focus on Germany. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, and co-editor of Three-Way Street: Germans, Jews, and the Transnational with Leslie Morris. He is currently writing a biography of Gershom Scholem and his family.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Visiting Professor Matti Jutila to Present at CHGS Workshop
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies
Thursday, November 29 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. Room 614 Social Sciences Building
Presentation by Professor Matti Jutila, "Ideology of Racial Extermination? Representations of Marxist Ethnopolitics in The Soviet Story"
Professor Jutila will be referring to the award-winning documentary, The Soviet Story by director Edvins Snore that tells the story of the Soviet regime and how the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust. Other subjects covered by the film include: - The Great Famine in Ukraine (1932/33) - The Katyn massacre (1940) - The SS-KGB partnership - French Communists and the Nazis - Soviet mass deportations - Medical experiments in the GULAG. The Soviet Story was filmed over 2 years in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, France, UK and Belgium. The film includes recently uncovered archive documents as well as interviews with former Soviet Military intelligence officials.
Dr. Jutila's main unifying theme of his research has been nationalism; how it affects contemporary world politics and the construction of political communities. His doctoral research investigated how transnational governance of the rights of national minorities has challenged nationalism externally by circumscribing the sovereignty of nation-states, and internally by challenging the idea of national homogeneity as the foundation of political communities.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
Meeting and presentation schedule is now available by clicking on the link below.
Meeting Schedule 11-20-2012.pdf
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
The workshop was created to:
Foster interdisciplinary conversations on the subject areas of Holocaust studies, genocide and memory, peace and conflict studies, human rights, nationalism and ethnic violence, representations of violence and trauma, conflict resolution, transitional justice, historical consciousness and collective memory.
Support fellow scholars and provide feedback at various stages of the research process.
Engage in dialogue with invited scholars.
Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, are organizing the workshops.
Thursday, November 29 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. Room 614 Social Sciences Building
Presentation by Professor Matti Jutila, "Ideology of Racial Extermination? Representations of Marxist Ethnopolitics in The Soviet Story"
Professor Jutila will be referring to the award-winning documentary, The Soviet Story by director Edvins Snore that tells the story of the Soviet regime and how the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust. Other subjects covered by the film include: - The Great Famine in Ukraine (1932/33) - The Katyn massacre (1940) - The SS-KGB partnership - French Communists and the Nazis - Soviet mass deportations - Medical experiments in the GULAG. The Soviet Story was filmed over 2 years in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, France, UK and Belgium. The film includes recently uncovered archive documents as well as interviews with former Soviet Military intelligence officials.
Dr. Jutila's main unifying theme of his research has been nationalism; how it affects contemporary world politics and the construction of political communities. His doctoral research investigated how transnational governance of the rights of national minorities has challenged nationalism externally by circumscribing the sovereignty of nation-states, and internally by challenging the idea of national homogeneity as the foundation of political communities.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
Meeting and presentation schedule is now available by clicking on the link below.
Meeting Schedule 11-20-2012.pdf
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
The workshop was created to:
Foster interdisciplinary conversations on the subject areas of Holocaust studies, genocide and memory, peace and conflict studies, human rights, nationalism and ethnic violence, representations of violence and trauma, conflict resolution, transitional justice, historical consciousness and collective memory.
Support fellow scholars and provide feedback at various stages of the research process.
Engage in dialogue with invited scholars.
Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, are organizing the workshops.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
German police believe that Neo-Nazis vandalized plaques that memorialized victims of the Nazis.
Memorial artwork in German town vandalized on Kristallnacht anniversary
November 11, 2012
For more on this memorial visit the CHGS web page.
November 11, 2012
For more on this memorial visit the CHGS web page.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Remembering Kristallnacht: Combating Indifference
Article by: ALEJANDRO BAER November 9, 2012 - Mpls. Star Tribune
November 9 and 10, 2012 marks the 74th anniversary of Nazi Germany's state instigated pogroms known as Kristallnacht (also known as "Night of broken glass"), a turning point in the anti-Jewish policy in Hitler's Germany. For most scholars it marks the beginning of the period we now define as the Holocaust.
Read the entire article here.
November 9 and 10, 2012 marks the 74th anniversary of Nazi Germany's state instigated pogroms known as Kristallnacht (also known as "Night of broken glass"), a turning point in the anti-Jewish policy in Hitler's Germany. For most scholars it marks the beginning of the period we now define as the Holocaust.
Read the entire article here.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Call for applicants to the doctoral program at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Together with the History Department, the Strassler Center offers a unique doctoral program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies. We also offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. stream in the Psychology of Genocide. This initiative draws upon the Psychology Department's expertise in social processes and cultural psychology that is developed within the SEC (Socio-Evolutionary-Cultural) psychology track and the Center's scholarship in genocide and Holocaust history.
The deadline for applications to the Holocaust History and Genocide Studies program is January 15, 2013. Potential applicants can learn more at their website.
Deadline for applications to the psychology of genocide program is December 27, 2012. More information is available by clicking here.
Questions, please contact Professor Thomas Kühne, Director of Graduate Studies: tkuehne@clarku.edu.
The deadline for applications to the Holocaust History and Genocide Studies program is January 15, 2013. Potential applicants can learn more at their website.
Deadline for applications to the psychology of genocide program is December 27, 2012. More information is available by clicking here.
Questions, please contact Professor Thomas Kühne, Director of Graduate Studies: tkuehne@clarku.edu.
Alejandro Baer to speak about Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain
Kristallnacht in Civil War Spain
Tuesday, November 13
Room 1210 Heller Hall
4:00 p.m.
"Germany introduces forceful measures against the Hebrews.
A clear warning to international Jewry never again to make attempts on the lives of Germans." - Ideal, Granada, November 13, 1938.
Professor Baer will talk about the contrasting treatment given to the news of the German anti-Jewish pogroms on November 9 & 10, 1938 by the Francoist and Republican sides during the Spanish Civil War.
The Francoist press met the news with approval and glee, in contrast to the condemnations expressed in the Republican papers, which offered solidarity and support to the victims, even as the legitimate Spanish government approached it's own death agony.
The Spanish republicans soon recognized that their fate was intertwined with that of European Jews.
Professor Baer is the new director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany.
His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.
Sponsored by: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies,Department of History, European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
Tuesday, November 13
Room 1210 Heller Hall
4:00 p.m.
"Germany introduces forceful measures against the Hebrews.
A clear warning to international Jewry never again to make attempts on the lives of Germans." - Ideal, Granada, November 13, 1938.
Professor Baer will talk about the contrasting treatment given to the news of the German anti-Jewish pogroms on November 9 & 10, 1938 by the Francoist and Republican sides during the Spanish Civil War.
The Francoist press met the news with approval and glee, in contrast to the condemnations expressed in the Republican papers, which offered solidarity and support to the victims, even as the legitimate Spanish government approached it's own death agony.
The Spanish republicans soon recognized that their fate was intertwined with that of European Jews.
Professor Baer is the new director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany.
His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.
Sponsored by: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies,Department of History, European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies
Meeting and presentation schedule is now available by clicking on the link below.
Workshop Schedule Updated 10262012.pdf
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
Foster interdisciplinary conversations on the subject areas of Holocaust studies, genocide and memory, peace and conflict studies, human rights, nationalism and ethnic violence, representations of violence and trauma, conflict resolution, transitional justice, historical consciousness and collective memory.
Support fellow scholars and provide feedback at various stages of the research process.
Engage in dialogue with invited scholars.
Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, are organizing the workshops.
Workshop Schedule Updated 10262012.pdf
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden golde118@umn.edu.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
Foster interdisciplinary conversations on the subject areas of Holocaust studies, genocide and memory, peace and conflict studies, human rights, nationalism and ethnic violence, representations of violence and trauma, conflict resolution, transitional justice, historical consciousness and collective memory.
Support fellow scholars and provide feedback at various stages of the research process.
Engage in dialogue with invited scholars.
Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, are organizing the workshops.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Letter from the Director of CHGS
I am pleased to announce that, with the beginning of the fall semester, I took up my new position as the Stephen Feinstein chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and as a faculty member of the Department of Sociology at University of Minnesota.
I am thrilled and honored to direct a center forged by the extraordinary vision of Stephen Feinstein, its founding director. I am committed to the mission of CHGS, advancing scholarship and collaboration across units of the University, and linking scholarship with public service and outreach to all sectors of society.
Since I started my work here in Minnesota I have been meeting with colleagues across the University and partners in the community. My objective is to identify synergies in order to develop collaborative efforts that build on the rich heritage of successful events and initiatives over the past 15 years at CHGS.
It is my intention to further develop CHGS as a major center of academic research, distinguished both by its international scope and local sensitivity. We will establish partnerships with institutions in the US and abroad, initially focusing on Europe and Latin America, to enhance the Center's national and international visibility and to attract graduate students and scholars. We will promote and undertake research and publication projects, develop attractive programs for lectures, conferences and workshops as well as innovative teaching initiatives. All these activities will be focused on raising awareness of Holocaust memory and advancing our understanding of the conditions and prevention of genocide within and beyond campus.
This can be achieved with the help of the Center´s staff and advisory board, community-based partners and friends, and with the support and collaboration of colleagues throughout the College of Liberal Arts and the University. I very much look forward to working together with you to reach these goals.
Please feel free to stop by my office to share thoughts and ideas. I look forward to meeting you.
With best regards,
Alejandro Baer
I am thrilled and honored to direct a center forged by the extraordinary vision of Stephen Feinstein, its founding director. I am committed to the mission of CHGS, advancing scholarship and collaboration across units of the University, and linking scholarship with public service and outreach to all sectors of society.
Since I started my work here in Minnesota I have been meeting with colleagues across the University and partners in the community. My objective is to identify synergies in order to develop collaborative efforts that build on the rich heritage of successful events and initiatives over the past 15 years at CHGS.
It is my intention to further develop CHGS as a major center of academic research, distinguished both by its international scope and local sensitivity. We will establish partnerships with institutions in the US and abroad, initially focusing on Europe and Latin America, to enhance the Center's national and international visibility and to attract graduate students and scholars. We will promote and undertake research and publication projects, develop attractive programs for lectures, conferences and workshops as well as innovative teaching initiatives. All these activities will be focused on raising awareness of Holocaust memory and advancing our understanding of the conditions and prevention of genocide within and beyond campus.
This can be achieved with the help of the Center´s staff and advisory board, community-based partners and friends, and with the support and collaboration of colleagues throughout the College of Liberal Arts and the University. I very much look forward to working together with you to reach these goals.
Please feel free to stop by my office to share thoughts and ideas. I look forward to meeting you.
With best regards,
Alejandro Baer
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Trinity University Professor asks, "Did Elie Wiesel Christianize the Holocaust?"
Did Elie Wiesel Christianize the Holocaust?
Wiesel's Night in Yiddish and French: Critical Appraisals and a New Approach
A lecture by Professor Alan Astro, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Friday, October 26
Room 609 Social Sciences Building
12:00p.m.
Elie Wiesel's Night, which first appeared in French as La nuit in 1958, may well loom as the archetypal Holocaust survivor account. But it was only in 1994, in his memoirs, that the author addressed the fact that Night is part adaptation, part translation of a Yiddish work he originally published in Buenos Aires in 1956, entitled ...Un di velt hot geshvign (...And the World Was Silent).
Critics have read discrepancies between the two versions in various ways: favorably, as resulting from appreciation for the distinct literary idiom of each language; provocatively, as the consequence of Wiesel's desire to cast the Holocaust in Christian, rather than Jewish, terms; and disparagingly, as part of a strategy to hide ideologically unpalatable, ethnocentric attitudes from a wider audience.
This presentation will review merits and flaws of these differing interpretations of Wiesel's work, and sketch a possible new approach.
Alan Astro (Ph.D., Yale University, 1985) is professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He has published on Beckett, Borges and Sholem Aleichem as well as other modern authors in French, Spanish and Yiddish. Astro's latest work is Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (2003).
Wiesel's Night in Yiddish and French: Critical Appraisals and a New Approach
A lecture by Professor Alan Astro, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Friday, October 26
Room 609 Social Sciences Building
12:00p.m.
Elie Wiesel's Night, which first appeared in French as La nuit in 1958, may well loom as the archetypal Holocaust survivor account. But it was only in 1994, in his memoirs, that the author addressed the fact that Night is part adaptation, part translation of a Yiddish work he originally published in Buenos Aires in 1956, entitled ...Un di velt hot geshvign (...And the World Was Silent).
Critics have read discrepancies between the two versions in various ways: favorably, as resulting from appreciation for the distinct literary idiom of each language; provocatively, as the consequence of Wiesel's desire to cast the Holocaust in Christian, rather than Jewish, terms; and disparagingly, as part of a strategy to hide ideologically unpalatable, ethnocentric attitudes from a wider audience.
This presentation will review merits and flaws of these differing interpretations of Wiesel's work, and sketch a possible new approach.
Alan Astro (Ph.D., Yale University, 1985) is professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He has published on Beckett, Borges and Sholem Aleichem as well as other modern authors in French, Spanish and Yiddish. Astro's latest work is Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (2003).
Art Exhibition The Metamorphosis to Freedom: by a Holocaust Survivor
The Metamorphosis to Freedom by Dr. Robert O. Fisch
November 1-December 27, 2012
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Minneapolis Sabes JCC
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, 55416
"Remain human-even in inhuman circumstances." Dr. Robert O. Fisch
Dr. Fisch is a retired pediatrician and visual artist as well as a Holocaust survivor. His art expresses issues of humanity that he hopes will heal the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Many of his works in this exhibit are a reflection from Fisch's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp documented through eloquent paintings and moving prose. Fisch states, "The impact on all of us who survived remains in our experience. I feel that all of us who were marked by the yellow star were tattooed inside. We have a special obligation, not a privilege, in being alive. As survivors, our moral and human obligations are essential, and our standards have to be based on human principles rather than on practicalities. We who survived are not different from others; we just played a special role in a special time."
For more on the exhibition please contact the Sabes Jewish Community Center at 952-381-3400.
For more on Dr. Fisch and his artwork please visit his page on the CHGS website.
November 1-December 27, 2012
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Minneapolis Sabes JCC
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, 55416
"Remain human-even in inhuman circumstances." Dr. Robert O. Fisch
Dr. Fisch is a retired pediatrician and visual artist as well as a Holocaust survivor. His art expresses issues of humanity that he hopes will heal the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Many of his works in this exhibit are a reflection from Fisch's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp documented through eloquent paintings and moving prose. Fisch states, "The impact on all of us who survived remains in our experience. I feel that all of us who were marked by the yellow star were tattooed inside. We have a special obligation, not a privilege, in being alive. As survivors, our moral and human obligations are essential, and our standards have to be based on human principles rather than on practicalities. We who survived are not different from others; we just played a special role in a special time."
For more on the exhibition please contact the Sabes Jewish Community Center at 952-381-3400.
For more on Dr. Fisch and his artwork please visit his page on the CHGS website.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Scholar to speak on Jewish life in Germany after the Shoah
Rebuilding the Community: Jewish Life in Germany after the Shoah
Jay H. Geller, Professor of Judaic Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Sunday, October 28, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Beth El Synagogue
26th St., St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Even after the Shoah, Jews chose to settle in Germany. Who were these Jews, and why did they decide to remain in a country that had been hostile to their very existence only a few years earlier? How did they deal with antagonism by German neighbors and isolation by Jewish groups abroad? This talk explores the circumstances that led to a renewed Jewish community in post-Holocaust Germany and the alliances that permitted it to flourish.
Jay H. Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes in Jewish history and modern European history, with a focus on Germany. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, and co-editor of Three-Way Street: Germans, Jews, and the Transnational with Leslie Morris. He is currently writing a biography of Gershom Scholem and his family.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Center for Jewish Studies at jwst@umn.edu or by phone at 612-624-4914.
Sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, Department of History and Beth El Synagogue.
Jay H. Geller, Professor of Judaic Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Sunday, October 28, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Beth El Synagogue
26th St., St. Louis Park, MN 55416
Even after the Shoah, Jews chose to settle in Germany. Who were these Jews, and why did they decide to remain in a country that had been hostile to their very existence only a few years earlier? How did they deal with antagonism by German neighbors and isolation by Jewish groups abroad? This talk explores the circumstances that led to a renewed Jewish community in post-Holocaust Germany and the alliances that permitted it to flourish.
Jay H. Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He specializes in Jewish history and modern European history, with a focus on Germany. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, and co-editor of Three-Way Street: Germans, Jews, and the Transnational with Leslie Morris. He is currently writing a biography of Gershom Scholem and his family.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Center for Jewish Studies at jwst@umn.edu or by phone at 612-624-4914.
Sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, Department of History and Beth El Synagogue.
Monday, October 1, 2012
CHGS to offer Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty
Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Room 710, Social Sciences Building
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
If you are interested in participating in the workshop but cannot attend the preliminary meeting, please contact the organizers to express your interest.
The workshops are being organized by Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology.
For more information on the workshop please contact Shannon Golden at golde118@umn.edu.
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Room 710, Social Sciences Building
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), the Human Rights Program and the Department of Sociology are organizing a Research Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Members of all departments in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Minnesota.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
- Foster interdisciplinary conversations on the subject areas of Holocaust studies, genocide and memory, peace and conflict studies, human rights, nationalism and ethnic violence, representations of violence and trauma, conflict resolution, transitional justice, historical consciousness and collective memory.
- Support fellow scholars and provide feedback at various stages of the research process.
- Engage in dialogue with invited scholars.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop but cannot attend the preliminary meeting, please contact the organizers to express your interest.
The workshops are being organized by Professor Alejandro Baer, director of CHGS, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology.
For more information on the workshop please contact Shannon Golden at golde118@umn.edu.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
CLA Names Alejandro Baer as New Feinstein Chair and Director of CHGS
The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce that Professor Alejandro Baer has been named the Stephen Feinstein Chair and new director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Professor Baer is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany. His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.
Professor Baer has actively engaged the broader community in the issues addressed by his scholarship. He has directed the Spanish section of the Shoah Visual Archives project and has served as a member of the Spanish delegation to the International Task Force for Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research. With the support of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, Professor Baer co-founded Radio Sefarad, designed to spread the ethical values, culture and science of Judaism through its history and current development to Spanish-speaking audiences. More recently he has curated a traveling exhibition, Visas for Freedom: Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust, which he plans to bring to the Twin Cities.
In addition to serving as Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Alejandro Baer will join the Department of Sociology as an associate professor.
Professor Baer is a distinguished scholar of Holocaust memory and testimony, and comes to Minnesota after serving on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München in Germany. His books include Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (Holocaust: Remembrance and Representation) and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (Audiovisual Testimony. Image and Memory of the Holocaust). In addition he has authored numerous articles addressing issues of genocide, memory, and Anti-Semitism. He is currently engaged in research focusing on the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the trans-nationalization of memory.Professor Baer has actively engaged the broader community in the issues addressed by his scholarship. He has directed the Spanish section of the Shoah Visual Archives project and has served as a member of the Spanish delegation to the International Task Force for Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research. With the support of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, Professor Baer co-founded Radio Sefarad, designed to spread the ethical values, culture and science of Judaism through its history and current development to Spanish-speaking audiences. More recently he has curated a traveling exhibition, Visas for Freedom: Spanish Diplomats and the Holocaust, which he plans to bring to the Twin Cities.
In addition to serving as Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Alejandro Baer will join the Department of Sociology as an associate professor.
Applications being accepted for the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. and postdoctoral (new!) candidates pursuing advanced Holocaust studies.
The application deadline is January 11, 2013 for the academic year of 2013-2014.
The Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Shoah studies and Holocaust memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support the advanced study of the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. Studies can include the immediate historical context in which the Holocaust took place and encompass political, economic, legal, religious and socio-cultural aspects, as well as ethical and moral implications. The Fellowship also supports awardees in learning languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and other geographical locations, which are necessary for the study of Holocaust-related documents. Postdoctoral candidates focusing on topics related to contemporary anti-Semitism will also be considered and are encouraged to apply.
Fellowships are awarded to outstanding candidates who have a strong personal commitment to Shoah memory, who have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement, and who possess the potential to provide outstanding professional leadership that will shape the future of Holocaust awareness and scholarship. Kagan Fellows are invited to attend an annual workshop at a leading Holocaust research center.
For application information, please visit fellowships.claimscon.org or email Chavie.Brumer@claimscon.org
The application deadline is January 11, 2013 for the academic year of 2013-2014.
The Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Shoah studies and Holocaust memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support the advanced study of the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. Studies can include the immediate historical context in which the Holocaust took place and encompass political, economic, legal, religious and socio-cultural aspects, as well as ethical and moral implications. The Fellowship also supports awardees in learning languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and other geographical locations, which are necessary for the study of Holocaust-related documents. Postdoctoral candidates focusing on topics related to contemporary anti-Semitism will also be considered and are encouraged to apply.
Fellowships are awarded to outstanding candidates who have a strong personal commitment to Shoah memory, who have demonstrated excellence in academic achievement, and who possess the potential to provide outstanding professional leadership that will shape the future of Holocaust awareness and scholarship. Kagan Fellows are invited to attend an annual workshop at a leading Holocaust research center.
For application information, please visit fellowships.claimscon.org or email Chavie.Brumer@claimscon.org
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Evil Conspiracies and Common Enemies: Mussolini, the Vatican, and the Origins of the Italian Racial Laws
Berdahl Memorial Lecture
Dr. David Kertzer, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
September 24, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Dr. David Kertzer is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, where he formerly served as Provost. Professor Kertzer's research ranges widely, including: Italian politics and history, anthropological demography, social organization, politics and symbols, political economy and family systems, age structuring, European historical demography and the history of Catholic Church-Jewish relations.
For the past several years Dr. Kertzer has been working in newly opened Vatican archives, along with Italian state archives, on a book that probes the relationship between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini.
Professor Kertzer has published several books and articles including, Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Plot to Capture Italy from the New Italian State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, was chosen as one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers' Weekly. His work, The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, 2001. New York: Knopf, was a selection of the Book of the Month Club.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact the Department of Anthropology at anth@umn.edu or by phone at 612-625-3400.
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of French & Italian, , Center for Jewish Studies, Department of History, Institute for Global Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Religious Studies
Dr. David Kertzer, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
September 24, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Dr. David Kertzer is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, where he formerly served as Provost. Professor Kertzer's research ranges widely, including: Italian politics and history, anthropological demography, social organization, politics and symbols, political economy and family systems, age structuring, European historical demography and the history of Catholic Church-Jewish relations.
For the past several years Dr. Kertzer has been working in newly opened Vatican archives, along with Italian state archives, on a book that probes the relationship between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini.
Professor Kertzer has published several books and articles including, Prisoner of the Vatican: The Popes' Plot to Capture Italy from the New Italian State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, was chosen as one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers' Weekly. His work, The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, 2001. New York: Knopf, was a selection of the Book of the Month Club.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please contact the Department of Anthropology at anth@umn.edu or by phone at 612-625-3400.
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of French & Italian, , Center for Jewish Studies, Department of History, Institute for Global Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Religious Studies
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Beatrice Ohanessian lecture now on CHGS YouTube channel
A lecture given by Beatrice Ohanessian at the University of Minnesota is now available on the CHGS YouTube channel. In the lecture, Ms. Ohanessian discusses her mother's family's experience during the Armenian genocide. Her mother and two uncles survived the genocide. Click here to watch the video.
Beatrice Ohanessian (1927-2008) was born in Baghdad to Armenian parents; her mother and two uncles were survivors of the Armenian genocide. She was the premier concert pianist in Iraq, as well as a composer. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and received a Fullbright Scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York. She moved permanently to the U.S. in 1994, where she settled in the Minneapolis area near her brother Arsham and sister Sita. She taught piano the University of Minnesota, Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas.
Beatrice was featured on Minnesota Public Radio in 2004; click here to read the feature.
To read her obituary in the Star Tribune, click here.
Beatrice Ohanessian (1927-2008) was born in Baghdad to Armenian parents; her mother and two uncles were survivors of the Armenian genocide. She was the premier concert pianist in Iraq, as well as a composer. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and received a Fullbright Scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York. She moved permanently to the U.S. in 1994, where she settled in the Minneapolis area near her brother Arsham and sister Sita. She taught piano the University of Minnesota, Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas.
Beatrice was featured on Minnesota Public Radio in 2004; click here to read the feature.
To read her obituary in the Star Tribune, click here.
New publication: The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post- Holocaust Fiction by Elizabeth R. Baer
On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, previewed her new book, The Golem Redux. Baer spoke about how 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. The presentation included golems from novels, comic books, graphic narratives, and "The X-Files."
Dr. Baer's new book, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction is now available from Wayne State University Press. You can watch the lecture on the Center's YouTube channel, CHGSumn.
Dr. Baer's new book, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction is now available from Wayne State University Press. You can watch the lecture on the Center's YouTube channel, CHGSumn.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Twin Cities Polish Film Fest to feature films on the Holocaust
Twin Cities Polish Film Fest
Presented by The Twin Cities Polish Festival and The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul
August 10-16, 2012
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 Main Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers
August 10, 11, 14
For showtimes and tickets click here.
The true story of a group of young Polish women, some barely out of their teens, who outfoxed the Nazis during World War II to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children. For decades, Irena Sendler kept silent about her wartime work. Now, in the last long interviews she gave before she died at the age of 98, she reveals the truth about a daring conspiracy of women in occupied Poland. Irena Sendler was a 29-yearold social worker when the Nazis invaded Poland. When Warsaw's Jews were imprisoned inside a ghetto without food and medicine, she and her friends smuggled in aid and began smuggling orphaned children out - hiding them in convents, orphanages and private homes.
Harbour of Hope
August 12 & 13
For showtimes and tickets click here.
In 1945, Irene, Ewa and Joe were among the nearly 30,000 survivors that were rescued from German concentration camps and sent to the peaceful harbor town of Malmö, Sweden. Here they started a new life. Through unique archival footage, we see the 10 year-old Jewish girl Irene taking her first shaky steps in freedom. We see newborn Ewa being carried off the boat by her Polish mother. And we meet Josef "Joe" Rozenberg, who came to Malmö as a young boy after losing his family. Today Joe Rozenberg lives in Saint Louis Park. In Harbour of Hope, they tell their amazing stories from the moment of liberation to the unsolved mysteries of the present time. A film about the importance of a helping hand and an moving homage to the unsung heroism that occurred throughout the darkest chapter in Europe's history.
Presented by The Twin Cities Polish Festival and The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul
August 10-16, 2012
St. Anthony Main Theatre
115 Main Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers
August 10, 11, 14
For showtimes and tickets click here.
The true story of a group of young Polish women, some barely out of their teens, who outfoxed the Nazis during World War II to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children. For decades, Irena Sendler kept silent about her wartime work. Now, in the last long interviews she gave before she died at the age of 98, she reveals the truth about a daring conspiracy of women in occupied Poland. Irena Sendler was a 29-yearold social worker when the Nazis invaded Poland. When Warsaw's Jews were imprisoned inside a ghetto without food and medicine, she and her friends smuggled in aid and began smuggling orphaned children out - hiding them in convents, orphanages and private homes.
Harbour of Hope
August 12 & 13
For showtimes and tickets click here.
In 1945, Irene, Ewa and Joe were among the nearly 30,000 survivors that were rescued from German concentration camps and sent to the peaceful harbor town of Malmö, Sweden. Here they started a new life. Through unique archival footage, we see the 10 year-old Jewish girl Irene taking her first shaky steps in freedom. We see newborn Ewa being carried off the boat by her Polish mother. And we meet Josef "Joe" Rozenberg, who came to Malmö as a young boy after losing his family. Today Joe Rozenberg lives in Saint Louis Park. In Harbour of Hope, they tell their amazing stories from the moment of liberation to the unsolved mysteries of the present time. A film about the importance of a helping hand and an moving homage to the unsung heroism that occurred throughout the darkest chapter in Europe's history.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Judaken lecture now available on YouTube
On April 25, 2012, Jonathan Judaken gave a lecture entitled, "The Conceptual Jew: Reflections on Arendt and Adorno's Post-Holocaust Theories of Anti-Semitism." The talk is now available to watch on CHGS' YouTube channel. Click here to view the video, as well as other CHGS-sponsored lectures, including Deborah Lipstadt and Alvin Rosenfeld.
In this talk, Professor Judaken reconstructs the very different theoretical paradigms of the interactionist and the socio-psychoanalytic that Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno developed to understand anti-Semitism.
Jonathan Judaken is the newly-appointed Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He recently served as the Dunavant Professor of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the patterns that underpin prejudice and the underlying assumptions that animate tolerance, values about the nation, race, gender, epistemology, and colonization.
In this talk, Professor Judaken reconstructs the very different theoretical paradigms of the interactionist and the socio-psychoanalytic that Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno developed to understand anti-Semitism.
Jonathan Judaken is the newly-appointed Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He recently served as the Dunavant Professor of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the patterns that underpin prejudice and the underlying assumptions that animate tolerance, values about the nation, race, gender, epistemology, and colonization.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Rosenfeld lecture now available on CHGS YouTube channel
In his public address on Sunday evening April 15, "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?" Professor Alvin Rosenfeld discussed how many campuses have become hospitable to certain political and ideological currents of thought that issue in actions and statements that can be seen as hostile to many Jewish students and professors.
Rosenfeld's appearance was in conjunction with the symposium, Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich. The symposium took place on April 15 and 16 in Mondale Hall. The symposium examined the moral role of the university in today's society while exploring the mutation of academic ideals under National Socialism, when the German university system promoted Nazi ideology and helped the state eliminate its diverse community. Fourteen scholars from across the U.S. and abroad, examined core academic disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, classics, Assyriology, theology, law, and music. A publication of the proceedings is planned.
You can view the talk by clicking here or visiting the CHGS YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/CHGSumn.
More lectures on CHGS YouTube channel
The CHGS YouTube channel is home to all of our recent lectures over the past year, including internationally acclaimed Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt.
Rosenfeld's appearance was in conjunction with the symposium, Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich. The symposium took place on April 15 and 16 in Mondale Hall. The symposium examined the moral role of the university in today's society while exploring the mutation of academic ideals under National Socialism, when the German university system promoted Nazi ideology and helped the state eliminate its diverse community. Fourteen scholars from across the U.S. and abroad, examined core academic disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, classics, Assyriology, theology, law, and music. A publication of the proceedings is planned.
You can view the talk by clicking here or visiting the CHGS YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/CHGSumn.
More lectures on CHGS YouTube channel
The CHGS YouTube channel is home to all of our recent lectures over the past year, including internationally acclaimed Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Minnesota Children of Holocaust Survivors Group Seeking New Members
CHAIM (Children of Holocaust Survivors Association of Minnesota) is seeking individuals who are second and third generation Holocaust survivors.
Founded in 2000, the group is committed to the preservation and passing on of their families' stories. Over the years members have participated in planning the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration, spoken to schools and religious organizations, and have participated in public programming aimed at educating individuals about the Holocaust.
Currently, the group meets once a month for private gatherings to share their families stories while viewing films, hosting speakers and other special guests.
The group is currently reaching out to other second and third generation individuals who may be unaware of the group, and who might be interested in joining in order to connect with the survivor community and to receive notices about programming or other related information.
"As we contemplate a future without the first witnesses to the Holocaust, we begin to think about how the third and fourth generation will embrace their grandparents' and great-grandparents' legacies, and pass them down not only to their own families, but to others in and outside the Jewish community," said Gloria Fredkove, newly-appointed chair of CHAIM. "We want to be sure that other second and third generation individuals in Minnesota know that there is a group of people who they can share their experiences with and if they are inclined, we can help them to pass on their family stories to others."
There are no membership fees and everyone is welcome. The group is committed to education and camaraderie. If you are interested in becoming a member or receiving more information about the group, please email Gloria Fredkove at gfredkove@yahoo.com.
Founded in 2000, the group is committed to the preservation and passing on of their families' stories. Over the years members have participated in planning the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration, spoken to schools and religious organizations, and have participated in public programming aimed at educating individuals about the Holocaust.
Currently, the group meets once a month for private gatherings to share their families stories while viewing films, hosting speakers and other special guests.
The group is currently reaching out to other second and third generation individuals who may be unaware of the group, and who might be interested in joining in order to connect with the survivor community and to receive notices about programming or other related information.
"As we contemplate a future without the first witnesses to the Holocaust, we begin to think about how the third and fourth generation will embrace their grandparents' and great-grandparents' legacies, and pass them down not only to their own families, but to others in and outside the Jewish community," said Gloria Fredkove, newly-appointed chair of CHAIM. "We want to be sure that other second and third generation individuals in Minnesota know that there is a group of people who they can share their experiences with and if they are inclined, we can help them to pass on their family stories to others."
There are no membership fees and everyone is welcome. The group is committed to education and camaraderie. If you are interested in becoming a member or receiving more information about the group, please email Gloria Fredkove at gfredkove@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Talmud Torah Minneapolis is seeking Holocaust survivors to participate in the Adopt a Survivor program
Talmud Torah Minneapolis announced today that it is seeking Holocaust survivors for their successful Adopt a Survivor program.
The program, now in its fourth year, allows a Holocaust survivor to share his/her life experiences and personal journey with a teen "adopter." The idea is that based on the time spent together, the teen will "adopt" the survivor's story and tell it to others. All teen participants in the program make a pledge to share their story at the 100th Commemoration of the Liberation of the Camps at the Holocaust Memorial in 2045, thus ensuring that it will be passed on to future generations. The students visit their partners at least once a month after school, as well as attend a Talmud Torah class that provides them with historical context about the Holocaust and the impact it had (and still has) on people's lives. At the end of the program, students create a special presentation and will have developed a personal relationship that will last for the rest of their lives.
"The bonds that are formed through these relationships are truly remarkable," said Susie Chalom, Executive Director of Talmud Torah. "Our students learn so much about the Holocaust from those who have experienced it first hand, while forming life long bonds with their partner. It is an experience that is not easily forgotten, or one that will be available much longer."
For the purposes of the program, Talmud Torah is interested in persons of Jewish descent who survived Nazi Germany, or a Nazi-occupied country between 1933-1945. You need not have been in a camp or ghetto to participate. Survivors must be able to commit to a once-a-month visit with their "adopter" between late October through March of 2012-2013. If you are interested please contact Sylvia Fine at sylfine@gmail.com or 612-922-9206.
The program, now in its fourth year, allows a Holocaust survivor to share his/her life experiences and personal journey with a teen "adopter." The idea is that based on the time spent together, the teen will "adopt" the survivor's story and tell it to others. All teen participants in the program make a pledge to share their story at the 100th Commemoration of the Liberation of the Camps at the Holocaust Memorial in 2045, thus ensuring that it will be passed on to future generations. The students visit their partners at least once a month after school, as well as attend a Talmud Torah class that provides them with historical context about the Holocaust and the impact it had (and still has) on people's lives. At the end of the program, students create a special presentation and will have developed a personal relationship that will last for the rest of their lives.
"The bonds that are formed through these relationships are truly remarkable," said Susie Chalom, Executive Director of Talmud Torah. "Our students learn so much about the Holocaust from those who have experienced it first hand, while forming life long bonds with their partner. It is an experience that is not easily forgotten, or one that will be available much longer."
For the purposes of the program, Talmud Torah is interested in persons of Jewish descent who survived Nazi Germany, or a Nazi-occupied country between 1933-1945. You need not have been in a camp or ghetto to participate. Survivors must be able to commit to a once-a-month visit with their "adopter" between late October through March of 2012-2013. If you are interested please contact Sylvia Fine at sylfine@gmail.com or 612-922-9206.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Local Holocaust survivor publishes her memoir
Mary Neuman, noted Minneapolis resident and Holocaust survivor, announces the publication of her life memoirs in "POCKETS IN MY SOUL". It is the story of her life beginning in Lwow, Poland where she spent a happy childhood with her family. She chronicles the events in her life including living through the Russian occupation, to fleeing the Nazi invaders until being captured.
A special program at Temple Israel of Minneapolis located at 2324 Emerson Ave. S. on Friday, June 15 honoring Mary, who together with family members will read from her book. The program starts at 6:00 p.m. The book is available at the Temple Israel Gift Shop and sells for $14.95.
For more information contact Temple Israel 612-377-8680.
Mary details her Ghetto experiences and of her escape. Upon being caught, readers are left spell bound. One of her former classmates, on seeing her at an ice cream store, reported her to authorities.
She was interned at the Montellupe prison, sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Bergen Belsen. While at Auschwitz, she had a confrontation with the infamous Dr. Mengele-"The Angel of Death" in which he was about to shoot her in the head, but having trouble removing his pistol from the holster, he suddenly slapped her in the face, and said: "Go back to work!" Her female Nazi guard turned to her and said: "You should consider yourself lucky that such a gorgeous man touched your face."
The story of her liberation is laced with feelings of exhalation and despair that she and her fellow inmates experienced. From life in a displaced camp to her travels in Europe trying to find her family, Mary writes of her coming to the United States and settling in Minneapolis establishing a new life for herself and her family. "POCKETS IN MY SOUL" describes both her tragic and happy life in Minneapolis and her new found "country" the United States of America.
Mary Neuman's testimony is available at the University of Minnesota through the Visual History Archive developed by the USC Shoah Foundation institute for Visual History and Education (Also known as the Shoah Project). Visit the Visual History Archive website for more information.
A special program at Temple Israel of Minneapolis located at 2324 Emerson Ave. S. on Friday, June 15 honoring Mary, who together with family members will read from her book. The program starts at 6:00 p.m. The book is available at the Temple Israel Gift Shop and sells for $14.95.
For more information contact Temple Israel 612-377-8680.
Mary details her Ghetto experiences and of her escape. Upon being caught, readers are left spell bound. One of her former classmates, on seeing her at an ice cream store, reported her to authorities.
She was interned at the Montellupe prison, sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Bergen Belsen. While at Auschwitz, she had a confrontation with the infamous Dr. Mengele-"The Angel of Death" in which he was about to shoot her in the head, but having trouble removing his pistol from the holster, he suddenly slapped her in the face, and said: "Go back to work!" Her female Nazi guard turned to her and said: "You should consider yourself lucky that such a gorgeous man touched your face."
The story of her liberation is laced with feelings of exhalation and despair that she and her fellow inmates experienced. From life in a displaced camp to her travels in Europe trying to find her family, Mary writes of her coming to the United States and settling in Minneapolis establishing a new life for herself and her family. "POCKETS IN MY SOUL" describes both her tragic and happy life in Minneapolis and her new found "country" the United States of America.
Mary Neuman's testimony is available at the University of Minnesota through the Visual History Archive developed by the USC Shoah Foundation institute for Visual History and Education (Also known as the Shoah Project). Visit the Visual History Archive website for more information.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Workshop: Trauma and Text: Approaches to Teaching the Literature of Atrocity
July 23-July 27, 2012
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences
University of Minnesota
30 CEUs
2 graduate credits available for additional fee (contact outreach@umn.edu if interested)
Registration deadline: July 9, 2012
How do we read narratives of trauma? What does it mean to experience the suffering of others through hart? What role can literature and film play in helping trauma survivors recover and heal? These are questions with which English, history, and art educators must grapple a twenty-first century populated with media images of tragedy and suffering. This institute will provide the opportunity for middle and high school teachers from across disciplines to think through the ways in which we approach the difficult task of engaging historical and personal trauma through creative works. We will examine closely both the positive uses of "trauma texts" and the risks that teaching such texts involves (secondary trauma, voyeurism, reductionism, pity). Importantly, we will spend time discussing the place of hope and agency, and the ways in which the artistic voice can promote growth and healing, both for the trauma survivor and the reader/spectator.
We will read a variety of theoretical and primary texts across genres (short stories, poetry, film, theater). Guest speakers will provide the institute with outside expertise and perspectives from a diversity of contexts. Institute participants will develop and receive feedback on a micro unit constructed around a text (film, poem, play, novel, etc.) for use in their classroom and will participate in creative writing exercises that model ways in which students can use their own stories as potential sites for healing and growth.
Register Online here.
If you have any questions, please contact Deborah LeClaire at outreach@umn.edu or 612-624-7346.
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences
University of Minnesota
30 CEUs
2 graduate credits available for additional fee (contact outreach@umn.edu if interested)
Registration deadline: July 9, 2012
How do we read narratives of trauma? What does it mean to experience the suffering of others through hart? What role can literature and film play in helping trauma survivors recover and heal? These are questions with which English, history, and art educators must grapple a twenty-first century populated with media images of tragedy and suffering. This institute will provide the opportunity for middle and high school teachers from across disciplines to think through the ways in which we approach the difficult task of engaging historical and personal trauma through creative works. We will examine closely both the positive uses of "trauma texts" and the risks that teaching such texts involves (secondary trauma, voyeurism, reductionism, pity). Importantly, we will spend time discussing the place of hope and agency, and the ways in which the artistic voice can promote growth and healing, both for the trauma survivor and the reader/spectator.
We will read a variety of theoretical and primary texts across genres (short stories, poetry, film, theater). Guest speakers will provide the institute with outside expertise and perspectives from a diversity of contexts. Institute participants will develop and receive feedback on a micro unit constructed around a text (film, poem, play, novel, etc.) for use in their classroom and will participate in creative writing exercises that model ways in which students can use their own stories as potential sites for healing and growth.
Register Online here.
If you have any questions, please contact Deborah LeClaire at outreach@umn.edu or 612-624-7346.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
New translation of the testimony of Georges Wellers
From Drancy to Auschwitz by the French Biologist and historian Georges Wellers was first published in France in 1946.
Wellers worked for many years at the Sorbonne, where he held the position of Director of Research Laboratory of Medical Department. In 1941 he was arrested by the Nazis and spent more than three years in concentration camps-first in Drancy near Paris, then in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Despite all the deprivations during his captivity, Georges lived a long and productive life. He excelled in a prominent scientific career, was awarded the Legion of Honor Rosette as its Officer, was Vice-President of the Association of Nazi-camp survivors of France, and was the only French witness at the Eichmann war crime trial in Israel.
The book has recently been translated into English and Russian by Wellers' niece, Olga Lifson, a Minnesota resident who escaped from the Soviet Union in the mid 70s. Ms. Lifson, along with her aunt and others who worked on the translation, dedicates the publication to all those who survived the Holocaust against great odds.
To order a copy of the book please visit M-Graphics Publishing's website.
Olga Lifson is available for speaking engagements and can be reached by email olifson3@gmail.com.
A transcript of Georges Wellers' testimony from the Eichmann trial can be read here.
To view the video of the testimony please click here.
Wellers worked for many years at the Sorbonne, where he held the position of Director of Research Laboratory of Medical Department. In 1941 he was arrested by the Nazis and spent more than three years in concentration camps-first in Drancy near Paris, then in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Despite all the deprivations during his captivity, Georges lived a long and productive life. He excelled in a prominent scientific career, was awarded the Legion of Honor Rosette as its Officer, was Vice-President of the Association of Nazi-camp survivors of France, and was the only French witness at the Eichmann war crime trial in Israel.
The book has recently been translated into English and Russian by Wellers' niece, Olga Lifson, a Minnesota resident who escaped from the Soviet Union in the mid 70s. Ms. Lifson, along with her aunt and others who worked on the translation, dedicates the publication to all those who survived the Holocaust against great odds.
To order a copy of the book please visit M-Graphics Publishing's website.
Olga Lifson is available for speaking engagements and can be reached by email olifson3@gmail.com.
A transcript of Georges Wellers' testimony from the Eichmann trial can be read here.
To view the video of the testimony please click here.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Barbara Frey, Director of Human Rights Program, to discuss torture through the lens of Judaism
Sunday, May 20
Beth-El Synagogue
5224 West 26th Street
St. Louis Park
Services begin at 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast and Presentation
"Honoring the Image of God: Reviewing Torture Jewishly"
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights North America will anchor a panel addressing the spiritual concerns with regard to torture. Barbara Frey, Director of the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Steven Miles, Professor and Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, University of Minnesota Medical School will join her on the panel.
The discussion is part of Beth-El's annual Arthur and Irene Stillman Torah Scholar in Residence Weekend, Friday, May 18-20.
For more information please contact Beth-El Synagogue at 952-920-3512.
Beth-El Synagogue
5224 West 26th Street
St. Louis Park
Services begin at 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast and Presentation
"Honoring the Image of God: Reviewing Torture Jewishly"
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights North America will anchor a panel addressing the spiritual concerns with regard to torture. Barbara Frey, Director of the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Steven Miles, Professor and Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics, University of Minnesota Medical School will join her on the panel.
The discussion is part of Beth-El's annual Arthur and Irene Stillman Torah Scholar in Residence Weekend, Friday, May 18-20.
For more information please contact Beth-El Synagogue at 952-920-3512.
Friday, May 4, 2012
U.S. Court of Appeals rules in favor of the University of Minnesota in case involving the Turkish Coalition of America
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in favor of the University today in a closely watched case involving First Amendment and academic freedom claims. A Plaintiff in the case, Turkish Coalition of America, claimed that statements on a University department website that suggested that the Turkish Coalition's information about the Armenian genocide was "unreliable" violated its free speech rights and were defamatory. A University student also allegedly feared he would be subjected to academic reprisals if he used information from the organization's website in his own work.
The federal district court had previously granted the University's motion to dismiss the claims, based principally upon its finding that the University's website contained statements of faculty scholarly opinion and critique that were protected by the doctrine of academic freedom.
The Court of Appeals today affirmed the District Court's dismissal of the plaintiff's claims. It found the Turkish Coalition free speech claim failed because it could not show it had suffered any restrictions on its speech activities. The Court of Appeals also found that the Turkish Coalition's defamation claims failed because the University faculty's statements were either true or were statements of opinion, which cannot support a defamation claim. The Court of Appeals also found the student had no standing to bring any claims because he could not show he suffered any injury.
The case has been watched closely by scholars around the United States and the world because of its implications for principles of academic freedom. GC Mark Rotenberg stated, "Today's federal court decision confirms the right of universities and their faculty to offer scholarly criticism and critique on websites without fear of legal exposure. This protection is especially important when the scholarly opinions expressed by the faculty are controversial. We are very pleased to have successfully defended this important academic interest."
The federal district court had previously granted the University's motion to dismiss the claims, based principally upon its finding that the University's website contained statements of faculty scholarly opinion and critique that were protected by the doctrine of academic freedom.
The Court of Appeals today affirmed the District Court's dismissal of the plaintiff's claims. It found the Turkish Coalition free speech claim failed because it could not show it had suffered any restrictions on its speech activities. The Court of Appeals also found that the Turkish Coalition's defamation claims failed because the University faculty's statements were either true or were statements of opinion, which cannot support a defamation claim. The Court of Appeals also found the student had no standing to bring any claims because he could not show he suffered any injury.
The case has been watched closely by scholars around the United States and the world because of its implications for principles of academic freedom. GC Mark Rotenberg stated, "Today's federal court decision confirms the right of universities and their faculty to offer scholarly criticism and critique on websites without fear of legal exposure. This protection is especially important when the scholarly opinions expressed by the faculty are controversial. We are very pleased to have successfully defended this important academic interest."
Monday, April 30, 2012
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 Exhibition
April 2-May 11, 2012
2nd/3rd Floor Gallery, Elmer L. Andersen Library
Nazi Germany sought domination over Europe, initiating the annihilation of Europe's Jews in what is now called the Holocaust. As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted other groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum examine the Nazi regime's attempt to eradicate homosexuality, terrorizing men into social conformity, leaving thousands dead and shattering the lives of many more.
The University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections provide additional insight into this period of persecution with historical materials held in Elmer L. Andersen Library.
To learn more about Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals or other groups please visit the CHGS Victim Groups web page.
For more information on the exhibition, programming and docent lead tours please click here. Dale Carpenter Two Pager (1).pdf
Nazi persecution of Homosexuals exhibition is presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Co-sponsors: The University of Minnesota, Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Human Rights and Relations Commission, the Immigration History Research Center, the Center for Holocaust &Genocide Studies, Out Front Minnesota, glbta online high school and Tolerance Minnesota.
2nd/3rd Floor Gallery, Elmer L. Andersen Library
Nazi Germany sought domination over Europe, initiating the annihilation of Europe's Jews in what is now called the Holocaust. As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted other groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Reproductions of some 250 historic photographs and documents from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum examine the Nazi regime's attempt to eradicate homosexuality, terrorizing men into social conformity, leaving thousands dead and shattering the lives of many more.
The University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections provide additional insight into this period of persecution with historical materials held in Elmer L. Andersen Library.
To learn more about Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals or other groups please visit the CHGS Victim Groups web page.
For more information on the exhibition, programming and docent lead tours please click here. Dale Carpenter Two Pager (1).pdf
Nazi persecution of Homosexuals exhibition is presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Co-sponsors: The University of Minnesota, Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Human Rights and Relations Commission, the Immigration History Research Center, the Center for Holocaust &Genocide Studies, Out Front Minnesota, glbta online high school and Tolerance Minnesota.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Conceptual Jew: Reflections on Arendt and Adorno's Post-Holocaust Theories of Anti-Semitism
A Lecture by: Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Room 710 Social Sciences Building
4:00 p.m.
Professor Judaken will reconstruct the very different theoretical paradigms of the interactionist and the socio-psychoanalytic that Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno developed to understand anti-Semitism.
Despite their differences, Arendt and Adorno shared a common problem that riddled their respective understandings. Both depended upon elevating what he calls the conceptual Jew to the centerpiece of their paradigms.
The conceptual Jew provided at once the critical energy for Arendt and Adorno's theoretical reflections on anti-Semitism, but also resulted in each of them reiterating stereotypical constructions of Jews and Judaism. In each case, these typologies of Jews prove quite similar.
The hypothesized and essentialized conception of Jews that wends its way into their theorizing resulted in both cases in their insights as well as their blindnesses when it came to their respective analyses of what Adorno preferred to call "the anti-Semitic question."
Jonathan Judaken is the newly appointed Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He recently served as the Dunavant Professor of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the patterns that underpin prejudice and the underlying assumptions that animate tolerance, values about the nation, race, gender, epistemology, and colonization.
Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.
Flier: Judaken.pdf
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Room 710 Social Sciences Building
4:00 p.m.
Professor Judaken will reconstruct the very different theoretical paradigms of the interactionist and the socio-psychoanalytic that Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno developed to understand anti-Semitism.
Despite their differences, Arendt and Adorno shared a common problem that riddled their respective understandings. Both depended upon elevating what he calls the conceptual Jew to the centerpiece of their paradigms.
The conceptual Jew provided at once the critical energy for Arendt and Adorno's theoretical reflections on anti-Semitism, but also resulted in each of them reiterating stereotypical constructions of Jews and Judaism. In each case, these typologies of Jews prove quite similar.
The hypothesized and essentialized conception of Jews that wends its way into their theorizing resulted in both cases in their insights as well as their blindnesses when it came to their respective analyses of what Adorno preferred to call "the anti-Semitic question."
Jonathan Judaken is the newly appointed Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities at Rhodes College. He recently served as the Dunavant Professor of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Memphis. His research focuses on the patterns that underpin prejudice and the underlying assumptions that animate tolerance, values about the nation, race, gender, epistemology, and colonization.
Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.
Flier: Judaken.pdf
The 2nd Annual Inna Meiman Human Rights Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to Anna Kaminski recipient of the Inna Meiman Human Rights Award and Tenzin Pelkyi, who was awarded the Sullivan Ballou Award in a ceremony among family, friends and University faculty on Friday, April 20, 2012.
Each award, carrying a $1,000 scholarship, recognizes a University of Minnesota undergraduate student who embodies a commitment to human rights and has worked tirelessly to address human rights abuses.
Read article in Minnesota Daily by clicking here.
The Inna Meiman Award is given in recognition of the friendship between Inna Meiman, a Soviet era Jewish refusenik who was repeatedly denied a visa to seek medical treatment, and Lisa Paul, a graduate of the University of Minnesota who fought tirelessly on her behalf, including a 25-day hunger strike that galvanized a movement for Inna's freedom. The friendship between Paul and Meiman is memorialized in the book, Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope.
The Sullivan Ballou Award is named after Major Sullivan Ballou, an Army soldier killed at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Ballou became the inspiration for this award because of the heartfelt commitment he expressed in a letter to his wife before the battle. The award carries on Ballou's spirit by honoring a student who devotes heartfelt energy to those around them.
The presentation included brief remarks by Lisa Paul, Elissa Peterson (founding member of the Sullivan Ballou Fund), and Professor Joachim Savelsberg (Advisory Board member of the Human Rights Program).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Each award, carrying a $1,000 scholarship, recognizes a University of Minnesota undergraduate student who embodies a commitment to human rights and has worked tirelessly to address human rights abuses.
Read article in Minnesota Daily by clicking here.
The Inna Meiman Award is given in recognition of the friendship between Inna Meiman, a Soviet era Jewish refusenik who was repeatedly denied a visa to seek medical treatment, and Lisa Paul, a graduate of the University of Minnesota who fought tirelessly on her behalf, including a 25-day hunger strike that galvanized a movement for Inna's freedom. The friendship between Paul and Meiman is memorialized in the book, Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope.
The Sullivan Ballou Award is named after Major Sullivan Ballou, an Army soldier killed at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Ballou became the inspiration for this award because of the heartfelt commitment he expressed in a letter to his wife before the battle. The award carries on Ballou's spirit by honoring a student who devotes heartfelt energy to those around them.
The presentation included brief remarks by Lisa Paul, Elissa Peterson (founding member of the Sullivan Ballou Fund), and Professor Joachim Savelsberg (Advisory Board member of the Human Rights Program).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Monday, April 23, 2012
The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Art Exhibition
Coffman Memorial Union
Great Hall
May 2-4, 2012
Free and Open to the public
Ancient Traditions Increasingly important in Turbulent Modern Times
The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren, opens an intimate window into ancient and contemporary China. The works reveal the traditional Chinese culture based around mind and body cultivation (self-improvement) and living in harmony with nature. With moral improvement, a resilient inner beauty arises. The re-emergence of this tradition in China has come through in the recent popularity of Falun Gong over the past 2 decades.
With beauty however, has come tragedy, as another side of the exhibition reveals the Chinese Communist Party's horrifying treatment of those who practice Falun Gong.
Since 2004, in a plight to relieve the pressure of the situation in China, the exhibition has toured some 200 cities in 40 countries throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia receiving numerous proclamations and letters of support from various government offices and other organizations.
Professor Zhang Kunlun, founder of the exhibition and former Director of the Institute of Sculpture at the Institute of Art in Shandong Province, China, himself a practitioner of Falun Gong, said:"Our art comes from a pure heart and our work reflects our personal experience. Art is able to greatly influence the way people think and it also directly connects with human morality. And the two interact."
Professor Zhang was detained for three months in a labor camp in China, simply because he believes in truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. In 2004, he started to work with other artists who practice Falun Gong to create this exhibition.
For further information: Visit the website by clicking here.
Media Contact: Meiling Lee 763-234-8596
Great Hall
May 2-4, 2012
Free and Open to the public
Ancient Traditions Increasingly important in Turbulent Modern Times
The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren, opens an intimate window into ancient and contemporary China. The works reveal the traditional Chinese culture based around mind and body cultivation (self-improvement) and living in harmony with nature. With moral improvement, a resilient inner beauty arises. The re-emergence of this tradition in China has come through in the recent popularity of Falun Gong over the past 2 decades.
With beauty however, has come tragedy, as another side of the exhibition reveals the Chinese Communist Party's horrifying treatment of those who practice Falun Gong.
Since 2004, in a plight to relieve the pressure of the situation in China, the exhibition has toured some 200 cities in 40 countries throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia receiving numerous proclamations and letters of support from various government offices and other organizations.
Professor Zhang Kunlun, founder of the exhibition and former Director of the Institute of Sculpture at the Institute of Art in Shandong Province, China, himself a practitioner of Falun Gong, said:"Our art comes from a pure heart and our work reflects our personal experience. Art is able to greatly influence the way people think and it also directly connects with human morality. And the two interact."
Professor Zhang was detained for three months in a labor camp in China, simply because he believes in truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. In 2004, he started to work with other artists who practice Falun Gong to create this exhibition.
For further information: Visit the website by clicking here.
Media Contact: Meiling Lee 763-234-8596
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
"How Did You Get Here? Jewish Self Invention and the Culture of Exile"
Alicia Borinsky
April 19, 2012 12:00-1:30
325 Nicholson Hall
Alicia Borinsky will focus on the Diaspora and its tales of displacement and integration.
Alicia Borinsky is a scholar, novelist poet who writes in English and in Spanish. She has won prestigious awards, such as the Latino Award for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is the author of several books and numerous articles published in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Her most recent book titles are: Frivolous Women and Other Sinners/Frívolas y pecadoras (Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2010) and One -Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2011). She has taught at Johns Hopkins, Brown, Washington University in St.Louis and Harvard. Currently she is Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Cultural Studies Program in Buenos Aires at Boston University.
This Event is Free & Open to the Public
A light lunch will be provided
Co-sponsored by: University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Institute for Global Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, English Department, Department for Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
For more information email: jwst@umn.edu, phone: 612-624-4914.
April 19, 2012 12:00-1:30
325 Nicholson Hall
Alicia Borinsky will focus on the Diaspora and its tales of displacement and integration.
Alicia Borinsky is a scholar, novelist poet who writes in English and in Spanish. She has won prestigious awards, such as the Latino Award for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is the author of several books and numerous articles published in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Her most recent book titles are: Frivolous Women and Other Sinners/Frívolas y pecadoras (Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2010) and One -Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2011). She has taught at Johns Hopkins, Brown, Washington University in St.Louis and Harvard. Currently she is Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Cultural Studies Program in Buenos Aires at Boston University.
This Event is Free & Open to the Public
A light lunch will be provided
Co-sponsored by: University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Institute for Global Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, English Department, Department for Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
For more information email: jwst@umn.edu, phone: 612-624-4914.
See Free Men at the Minneapolis St. Paul 2012 International Film Festival
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Free Men
Forced by the Nazi's, a Algerian immigrant (Tahar Rahim) spies on the leaders of a Paris Mosque under suspicion of secretly hiding Jews and working with the Resistance, leading him to an awakening from illiterate worker to passionate freedom fighter. Based on actual events in Paris under the Occupation.
May 5
To view the trailer click here.
Free Men
Forced by the Nazi's, a Algerian immigrant (Tahar Rahim) spies on the leaders of a Paris Mosque under suspicion of secretly hiding Jews and working with the Resistance, leading him to an awakening from illiterate worker to passionate freedom fighter. Based on actual events in Paris under the Occupation.
May 5
To view the trailer click here.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
This Sunday, April 15-"Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?"
Alvin Rosenfeld, Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism (Indiana University)
Sunday, April 15, 2012
7:30p.m.
Cowles Auditorium
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs
In his public address, "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?" Professor Alvin Rosenfeld will discuss how many of our campuses have become hospitable to certain political and ideological currents of thought that issue in actions and statements hostile to many Jewish students and professors. A review of contemporary debates about two issues of particular concern to Jews--the Holocaust and the State of Israel--suggests that we may be witnessing the emergence of some new versions of the "Jewish Question."
Alvin H. Rosenfeld's appearance is in conjunction with the Symposium, Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich. Sunday, April 15 and 16, at Mondale Hall.
Professor Rosenfeld is the author of numerous scholarly and critical articles on American poetry, Jewish writers, and the literature of the Holocaust. His most recent study, The End of the Holocaust, contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
7:30p.m.
Cowles Auditorium
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs
In his public address, "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?" Professor Alvin Rosenfeld will discuss how many of our campuses have become hospitable to certain political and ideological currents of thought that issue in actions and statements hostile to many Jewish students and professors. A review of contemporary debates about two issues of particular concern to Jews--the Holocaust and the State of Israel--suggests that we may be witnessing the emergence of some new versions of the "Jewish Question."
Alvin H. Rosenfeld's appearance is in conjunction with the Symposium, Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich. Sunday, April 15 and 16, at Mondale Hall.
Professor Rosenfeld is the author of numerous scholarly and critical articles on American poetry, Jewish writers, and the literature of the Holocaust. His most recent study, The End of the Holocaust, contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory.
Monday, April 16, 2012
CHGS to Host Symposium on the University During the Third Reich
Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich
Symposium
Sunday April 15 & Monday April 16
Mondale Hall, Law School
Public Program: "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?"
Alvin Rosenfeld,Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism (Indiana University)
Sunday, April 15, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Under National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945), the universities and the academic disciplines themselves became in many cases all-too-eager accomplices in the perpetration of Nazi ideology. Not only did the normal administrative structure of the university become corrupted, but learning itself betrayed its own mission as prestigious disciplines propagated Nazi racial science and beliefs.
In order to investigate the process whereby critical thought was replaced by blind obedience, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host a symposium to examine the moral role of the university in today's society. The symposium, co-organized by Bernard Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, and Bruno Chaouat, director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will explore the mutation of academic ideals under National Socialism, when the German university system promoted Nazi ideology and helped the state eliminate its diverse community. Thirteen scholars from across the U.S. and abroad will examine core academic disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, classics, Assyriology, theology, law, and music.
In his public address, "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?," Professor Alvin Rosenfeld will discuss how many of our campuses have become hospitable to certain political and ideological currents of thought that issue in actions and statements inimical to many Jewish students and professors. A review of contemporary debates about two issues of particular concern to Jews--the Holocaust and the State of Israel--suggests that we may be witnessing the emergence of some new versions of the "Jewish Question."
The symposium and Alvin Rosenfeld talk are free and open to the public. For more information please contact chgs@umn.edu or 612-624-0265.
For the complete symposium schedule, list of scholars and further information please visit the Betrayal of the Humanities website here.
To RSVP for the Symposium please click here.
Symposium flier: Symfin312.pdf
Rosenfeld flier: Rosen312fin.pdf
Sponsors: Imagine Fund Special Events Programs, Wexler Education Fund, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies & Hebrew Bible, International Travel Grant from the Global Programs & Strategy Alliance, Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Austrian Studies, Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Department of History, Institute for International Legal & Security Studies, Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies, Department of French & Italian, Department of Political Science, Religious Studies, Department of Art History, Department of Anthropology, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, Department of Philosophy, Legal History Workshop, Human Rights Center, Jonathan Paradise Hebrew Language Fund.
Co-sponsors: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Law School, Institute for Law and Rationality
Symposium
Sunday April 15 & Monday April 16
Mondale Hall, Law School
Public Program: "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?"
Alvin Rosenfeld,Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism (Indiana University)
Sunday, April 15, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Under National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945), the universities and the academic disciplines themselves became in many cases all-too-eager accomplices in the perpetration of Nazi ideology. Not only did the normal administrative structure of the university become corrupted, but learning itself betrayed its own mission as prestigious disciplines propagated Nazi racial science and beliefs.In order to investigate the process whereby critical thought was replaced by blind obedience, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host a symposium to examine the moral role of the university in today's society. The symposium, co-organized by Bernard Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, and Bruno Chaouat, director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will explore the mutation of academic ideals under National Socialism, when the German university system promoted Nazi ideology and helped the state eliminate its diverse community. Thirteen scholars from across the U.S. and abroad will examine core academic disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy, classics, Assyriology, theology, law, and music.
In his public address, "Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?," Professor Alvin Rosenfeld will discuss how many of our campuses have become hospitable to certain political and ideological currents of thought that issue in actions and statements inimical to many Jewish students and professors. A review of contemporary debates about two issues of particular concern to Jews--the Holocaust and the State of Israel--suggests that we may be witnessing the emergence of some new versions of the "Jewish Question."
The symposium and Alvin Rosenfeld talk are free and open to the public. For more information please contact chgs@umn.edu or 612-624-0265.
For the complete symposium schedule, list of scholars and further information please visit the Betrayal of the Humanities website here.
To RSVP for the Symposium please click here.
Symposium flier: Symfin312.pdf
Rosenfeld flier: Rosen312fin.pdf
Sponsors: Imagine Fund Special Events Programs, Wexler Education Fund, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies & Hebrew Bible, International Travel Grant from the Global Programs & Strategy Alliance, Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Austrian Studies, Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Department of History, Institute for International Legal & Security Studies, Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies, Department of French & Italian, Department of Political Science, Religious Studies, Department of Art History, Department of Anthropology, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, Department of Philosophy, Legal History Workshop, Human Rights Center, Jonathan Paradise Hebrew Language Fund.
Co-sponsors: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Law School, Institute for Law and Rationality
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity
Taner Akçam
The Tenth Annual Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture
Monday, April 16, 2012, 7:00p.m.
Maroon & Gold Room, McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55455
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.
Professor Akçam will speak on his just-published book, The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press), which is based on research in over 600 Ottoman documents.
Taner Akçam holds the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University's Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Akçam is the leading scholar in the world today on the history of the Armenian Genocide. He has published more than a dozen books, many of which have appeared in multiple languages, including Turkish, Greek, and German, as well as in English. Before taking his current position at Clark, Professor Akçam taught at the University of Minnesota and was associated with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He also taught at the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
The Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture results from a generous gift by Arsham Ohanessian to the College of Liberal Arts. Arsham was a successful businessman, avid musician, and dedicated community leader. He was devoted to promoting peaceful reconciliation among peoples. His gift to the University of Minnesota supports a wide range of educational, research, and public programs concerning human rights, ethnic and national conflicts, and Armenian history and culture.
Sponsored by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts, The Human Rights University and the Human Rights Program in the Institute for Global Studies.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Armenian Genocide Commemoration
97th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide
Tuesday, April 24
7:00 p.m.
St. Sahag Armenian Church
203 N. Howell St., St. Paul
The 2nd Annual Inna Meiman Human Rights Award-Nominations Due Friday, April 6
The Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
are pleased to announce The 2nd Annual Inna Meiman Human Rights Award.
Recognizing undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota who have made significant personal contributions in the promotion and protection of human rights.
This award will be given in recognition of the friendship between Inna Meiman, a Soviet era Jewish refusnik who was repeatedly denied a visa to seek medical treatment, and Lisa Paul, a graduate of the University of Minnesota who fought tirelessly on her behalf, including a 25-day hunger strike that galvanized a movement for Inna's freedom. The friendship between Lisa Paul and Inna Meiman is memorialized in the book, Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope.
The award is intended to recognize a University of Minnesota student who embodies a commitment to human rights. The Awardee will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
Nominations will be accepted through Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
Inna Meiman Award Criteria
Eligibility
• The awards are open to all full-time undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota.
Criteria
• The student has demonstrated a personal commitment to the promotion and protection of international human rights through significant work on a human rights cause during their time as an undergraduate;
• Through their efforts, the student has raised the visibility of a particular human rights issue among the University community or the broader public;
• The student has made a positive difference in the life of others, and has given voice to those who might otherwise not be heard.
Nominations
• Nominators should submit a letter of 750 words or less describing the human rights activities undertaken by the nominee during his or her time as a student at the University of Minnesota and a CV of the student being nominated;
• Students may be nominated by faculty, staff or other students at the University of Minnesota.
• Self nominations must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from faculty, staff, and students who can attest to the achievements.
Address and Deadline
• Letters should be submitted by email to the Human Rights Program, hrp@umn.edu, or delivered to the Human Rights Program, 214 Social Sciences Building, 267 - 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
• The nomination deadline is Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
Judging
• The judging committee will consist of the staffs of the Human Rights Program, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and author, Lisa Paul.
Ceremony
• The Inna Meiman Award winner will be recognized publically at an event in April or May 2012.
are pleased to announce The 2nd Annual Inna Meiman Human Rights Award.
Recognizing undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota who have made significant personal contributions in the promotion and protection of human rights.
This award will be given in recognition of the friendship between Inna Meiman, a Soviet era Jewish refusnik who was repeatedly denied a visa to seek medical treatment, and Lisa Paul, a graduate of the University of Minnesota who fought tirelessly on her behalf, including a 25-day hunger strike that galvanized a movement for Inna's freedom. The friendship between Lisa Paul and Inna Meiman is memorialized in the book, Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope.
The award is intended to recognize a University of Minnesota student who embodies a commitment to human rights. The Awardee will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
Nominations will be accepted through Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
Inna Meiman Award Criteria
Eligibility
• The awards are open to all full-time undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota.
Criteria
• The student has demonstrated a personal commitment to the promotion and protection of international human rights through significant work on a human rights cause during their time as an undergraduate;
• Through their efforts, the student has raised the visibility of a particular human rights issue among the University community or the broader public;
• The student has made a positive difference in the life of others, and has given voice to those who might otherwise not be heard.
Nominations
• Nominators should submit a letter of 750 words or less describing the human rights activities undertaken by the nominee during his or her time as a student at the University of Minnesota and a CV of the student being nominated;
• Students may be nominated by faculty, staff or other students at the University of Minnesota.
• Self nominations must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from faculty, staff, and students who can attest to the achievements.
Address and Deadline
• Letters should be submitted by email to the Human Rights Program, hrp@umn.edu, or delivered to the Human Rights Program, 214 Social Sciences Building, 267 - 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
• The nomination deadline is Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
Judging
• The judging committee will consist of the staffs of the Human Rights Program, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and author, Lisa Paul.
Ceremony
• The Inna Meiman Award winner will be recognized publically at an event in April or May 2012.
Friday, March 30, 2012
"Law and Democracy: The Paradoxes of Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950."
Devin Pendas, Associate Professor and director of graduate studies, Boston College
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
The effort at transitional justice in Germany after World War II was one of the largest and most systematic ever undertaken. Among the least known aspects of that effort were the thousands of prosecutions for Nazi crimes undertaken by the Germans themselves in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Shaped by the context of military occupation and the budding Cold War, these German trials had a complex and often surprising impact on the political culture of the two emerging German states. Prosecuting Nazi atrocities actually played an important role in consolidating East Germany's emerging Stalinist dictatorship. And it was West German hostility to prosecuting Nazi crimes that proved crucial to its eventual democratic success.
Devin Pendas is Associate Professor and director of graduate studies at the Boston College Department of History. Professor Pendas also holds a position as a faculty affiliate and co-chair of the German Study Group at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His fields of interest include German history, modern Europe, legal history, and the history of mass violence and war.
His research centers on war crimes trials after World War II, particularly on German Holocaust trials, and he is interested in the comparative and transnational dimensions of genocide. Pendas' 2005 book, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law, provides a comprehensive history ofthe largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts, addressing both the inadequacy of the trials and the public's divided response.
He has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies (Burkhardt Fellowship).
Presented by: The Department of History, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
The effort at transitional justice in Germany after World War II was one of the largest and most systematic ever undertaken. Among the least known aspects of that effort were the thousands of prosecutions for Nazi crimes undertaken by the Germans themselves in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Shaped by the context of military occupation and the budding Cold War, these German trials had a complex and often surprising impact on the political culture of the two emerging German states. Prosecuting Nazi atrocities actually played an important role in consolidating East Germany's emerging Stalinist dictatorship. And it was West German hostility to prosecuting Nazi crimes that proved crucial to its eventual democratic success.
Devin Pendas is Associate Professor and director of graduate studies at the Boston College Department of History. Professor Pendas also holds a position as a faculty affiliate and co-chair of the German Study Group at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His fields of interest include German history, modern Europe, legal history, and the history of mass violence and war.
His research centers on war crimes trials after World War II, particularly on German Holocaust trials, and he is interested in the comparative and transnational dimensions of genocide. Pendas' 2005 book, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law, provides a comprehensive history ofthe largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts, addressing both the inadequacy of the trials and the public's divided response.
He has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies (Burkhardt Fellowship).
Presented by: The Department of History, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
¡Si Hubo Genocidio!: Exhumations, Truth and Justice after the Guatemalan Genocide
Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City College of New York
Monday, April 2
4:00p.m.
Room 250
Blegen Hall
When the Guatemalan Peace Accords were signed in 1996 ending more than three decades of internal armed conflict, more than 200,000 people were dead or disappeared, 626 mostly Maya villages had been massacred, 1.5 million people had been internally displaced, and 150,000 had sought refuge in Mexico. In this paper I explore local politics and meanings of exhumations of clandestine cemeteries in Guatemala within the context of transnational human rights practices and transitional justice paradigms. I trace the development of national, regional and international genocide cases against former Guatemalan generals over the past two decades. I analyze the role of forensic and cultural anthropology in the construction of historical memory. Community demands for reparation and societal demands for justice are considered within ongoing impunity in Guatemala which today has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Victoria Sanford is Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City College of New York. Her research foci include genocide, feminicide, forensic anthropology, post-conflict violence, displacement, child soldiers, humanitarian aid, human rights, theories of violence and terror, and indigenous rights.
She has published five books on violence and human rights in Guatemala and the field of anthropology, and her various articles have been published in Anthropology News, Radcliffe Quarterly, Propaganda Review, and Bulletin on Municipal Foreign Policy among others.
She serves as a Research Associate at Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution as well as an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University. As a human rights activist and scholar, her experience includes extensive research into indigenous communities in Latin America, including Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Mexico.
Presented by: The Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Monday, April 2
4:00p.m.
Room 250
Blegen Hall
When the Guatemalan Peace Accords were signed in 1996 ending more than three decades of internal armed conflict, more than 200,000 people were dead or disappeared, 626 mostly Maya villages had been massacred, 1.5 million people had been internally displaced, and 150,000 had sought refuge in Mexico. In this paper I explore local politics and meanings of exhumations of clandestine cemeteries in Guatemala within the context of transnational human rights practices and transitional justice paradigms. I trace the development of national, regional and international genocide cases against former Guatemalan generals over the past two decades. I analyze the role of forensic and cultural anthropology in the construction of historical memory. Community demands for reparation and societal demands for justice are considered within ongoing impunity in Guatemala which today has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Victoria Sanford is Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City College of New York. Her research foci include genocide, feminicide, forensic anthropology, post-conflict violence, displacement, child soldiers, humanitarian aid, human rights, theories of violence and terror, and indigenous rights.
She has published five books on violence and human rights in Guatemala and the field of anthropology, and her various articles have been published in Anthropology News, Radcliffe Quarterly, Propaganda Review, and Bulletin on Municipal Foreign Policy among others.
She serves as a Research Associate at Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution as well as an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University. As a human rights activist and scholar, her experience includes extensive research into indigenous communities in Latin America, including Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Mexico.
Presented by: The Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
CHGS sponsors two films at Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
Remembrance (Die verlorene Zeit)
Sunday, March 18 at 7 pm
Sunday, March 25 at 4 pm
Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC
As Seen Through These Eyes
Special Guest: Director, Hilary Helstein. Screening dedicated to Stephen Feinstein.
Sunday, March 25 at 12 pm
Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC
Remembrance (Die verlorene Zeit)
Inspired by actual events, Remembrance depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in Poland in 1944. In a daring escape, Tomasz a young Polish prisoner rescues his Jewish lover Hannah Silberstein but during the chaos at the end of the war they lose each other. Thirty years later, Hannah believes she has seen Tomasz, in an interview on TV. The now married Hannah begins a new search for the man she thought she lost at the end of WWII.
Directed by Anna Justice (Max Minsky and Me) I Germany, 2011 I 105 Minutes I German, Polish and English with English Subtitles | Recommended for ages 16 and up.
Winner, Audience Award, Berlin and Beyond Film Festival, San Francisco, 2011
Tickets: $10 General Public; $8 JCC Premium & Community members, students
As Seen Through These Eyes
Special Guest: Director, Hilary Helstein. Screening dedicated to Stephen Feinstein.
As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compelling statement about the human spirit, while enduring unimaginable odds.
Directed by Hilary Helstein I USA 2010 I 74 Minutes I English | Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Best Documentary: Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Winnipeg International Film Festival and Audience Favorite, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Tickets: $10 General Public; $8 JCC Premium & Community members, students
For further information and trailers, please visit the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival website.
Sunday, March 18 at 7 pm
Sunday, March 25 at 4 pm
Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC
As Seen Through These Eyes
Special Guest: Director, Hilary Helstein. Screening dedicated to Stephen Feinstein.
Sunday, March 25 at 12 pm
Dolly & Edward Fiterman Theatre at the Sabes JCC
Remembrance (Die verlorene Zeit)
Inspired by actual events, Remembrance depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in Poland in 1944. In a daring escape, Tomasz a young Polish prisoner rescues his Jewish lover Hannah Silberstein but during the chaos at the end of the war they lose each other. Thirty years later, Hannah believes she has seen Tomasz, in an interview on TV. The now married Hannah begins a new search for the man she thought she lost at the end of WWII.
Directed by Anna Justice (Max Minsky and Me) I Germany, 2011 I 105 Minutes I German, Polish and English with English Subtitles | Recommended for ages 16 and up.
Winner, Audience Award, Berlin and Beyond Film Festival, San Francisco, 2011
Tickets: $10 General Public; $8 JCC Premium & Community members, students
As Seen Through These Eyes
Special Guest: Director, Hilary Helstein. Screening dedicated to Stephen Feinstein.
As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compelling statement about the human spirit, while enduring unimaginable odds.
Directed by Hilary Helstein I USA 2010 I 74 Minutes I English | Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Best Documentary: Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Winnipeg International Film Festival and Audience Favorite, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Tickets: $10 General Public; $8 JCC Premium & Community members, students
For further information and trailers, please visit the Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival website.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Preventing Mass Violence: The Expansion of R2P and the Challenge of Statebuilding
Jon Western, Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College
Thursday, March 29
3:30 p.m.
1314 Social Sciences
This talk will feature results from a research project that is situated in the literature on emerging norms and examines how and why the United States and the international community moved from failures to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities in Rwanda and Bosnia (prior to Srebrenica) to embark on ambitious liberal statebuilding efforts in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. More broadly, the project examines how the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) emerged in concept and expanded in scope to include a focus on capacity building and governance.
Theoretically, it presents an analysis of the various pathways in which new norms emerge and are applied to policy decisions. It also explores how those norms are contested and can regress amid policy setbacks, domestic politics, and changing claims of legitimacy.
Jon Western is Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. His teaching and research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, human rights and humanitarian affairs. His book, Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public, was published in 2005 by the Johns Hopkins University Press and his articles, book reviews, and essays have been published by journals including International Security, Harvard International Review, Global Dialogue, International Affairs, and Political Science Quarterly.
Western has served as a peace scholar-in-residence and the coordinator of the Dayton Upgrade Project at the United States Institute of Peace. He has also taught at Columbia University and George Washington University and served as a Balkans and East European specialist at the U.S. Department of State.
Presented by: The Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Thursday, March 29
3:30 p.m.
1314 Social Sciences
This talk will feature results from a research project that is situated in the literature on emerging norms and examines how and why the United States and the international community moved from failures to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities in Rwanda and Bosnia (prior to Srebrenica) to embark on ambitious liberal statebuilding efforts in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. More broadly, the project examines how the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) emerged in concept and expanded in scope to include a focus on capacity building and governance.
Theoretically, it presents an analysis of the various pathways in which new norms emerge and are applied to policy decisions. It also explores how those norms are contested and can regress amid policy setbacks, domestic politics, and changing claims of legitimacy.
Jon Western is Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. His teaching and research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, human rights and humanitarian affairs. His book, Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public, was published in 2005 by the Johns Hopkins University Press and his articles, book reviews, and essays have been published by journals including International Security, Harvard International Review, Global Dialogue, International Affairs, and Political Science Quarterly.
Western has served as a peace scholar-in-residence and the coordinator of the Dayton Upgrade Project at the United States Institute of Peace. He has also taught at Columbia University and George Washington University and served as a Balkans and East European specialist at the U.S. Department of State.
Presented by: The Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Global Memory of the Holocaust and the Politics of Never Again
Alejandro Baer, Visiting Chair of Qualitative Methods of Social Research, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München
Tuesday, March 27
4:00 p.m.
1114 Social Sciences
Recent research on social or collective memory points to the universalization of Holocaust consciousness. According to this research the Holocaust is now also remembered beyond the ethnic boundaries of the Jewish communities or the nations that were responsible for perpetrating it, due in part to the shift in focus from national to cosmopolitan memory cultures. However, such theses pose many open questions in terms of the interpretation of the genocide of the Jews, its actualization as well as contextualization in the history of oppression and crimes against human rights in different countries.
This lecture will present material from a study on Holocaust commemoration ceremonies in Spain, a country still facing the ghosts of its own past. The Spanish case study will lead to a more general reflection on the ongoing tension between particular and universal readings of past violence, the cross-fertilization of memory cultures and the important challenges faced by any individual or institution intending to implement prevention oriented Holocaust and genocide education.
Alejandro Baer is on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München, where he holds the position of Visiting Chair of Qualitative Methods of Social Research. His areas of research expertise include Social Memory Studies, Sociology of Culture and Religion, Sociology of Modern Judaism, Empirical Research on Anti-Semitism, Qualitative Research Methodologies, and Sociology of Media and Communication.
His publications include, in addition to numerous articles and chapters in English and German, the books Holocausto. Recuerdo y Representación., Madrid: Editorial Losada, 2006, and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto, Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), 2005.
He directed the Spanish part of the Shoah Visual Archives project. His recent research includes the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the transnationalization of memory. He organizes an annual international scholar's conference on Anti-Semitism, fostering international academic collaborations.
Presented by: The Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Tuesday, March 27
4:00 p.m.
1114 Social Sciences
Recent research on social or collective memory points to the universalization of Holocaust consciousness. According to this research the Holocaust is now also remembered beyond the ethnic boundaries of the Jewish communities or the nations that were responsible for perpetrating it, due in part to the shift in focus from national to cosmopolitan memory cultures. However, such theses pose many open questions in terms of the interpretation of the genocide of the Jews, its actualization as well as contextualization in the history of oppression and crimes against human rights in different countries.
This lecture will present material from a study on Holocaust commemoration ceremonies in Spain, a country still facing the ghosts of its own past. The Spanish case study will lead to a more general reflection on the ongoing tension between particular and universal readings of past violence, the cross-fertilization of memory cultures and the important challenges faced by any individual or institution intending to implement prevention oriented Holocaust and genocide education.
Alejandro Baer is on the sociology faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität-München, where he holds the position of Visiting Chair of Qualitative Methods of Social Research. His areas of research expertise include Social Memory Studies, Sociology of Culture and Religion, Sociology of Modern Judaism, Empirical Research on Anti-Semitism, Qualitative Research Methodologies, and Sociology of Media and Communication.
His publications include, in addition to numerous articles and chapters in English and German, the books Holocausto. Recuerdo y Representación., Madrid: Editorial Losada, 2006, and El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto, Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), 2005.
He directed the Spanish part of the Shoah Visual Archives project. His recent research includes the uses and abuses of Holocaust history and memory in the Spanish-speaking world as well as the transnationalization of memory. He organizes an annual international scholar's conference on Anti-Semitism, fostering international academic collaborations.
Presented by: The Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Berlin Summer Academy: The Holocaust and Present-day Jewish Life in Germany
July 15-22, 2012
A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
This one-week study tour in July of each year is designed for U.S. secondary school teachers and other multipliers in the field of education to gain insight into many of the historical, social, religious, political, and economic factors that cumulatively resulted in the Holocaust. A program brochure can be downloaded here.
For more information visit their website here.
A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
This one-week study tour in July of each year is designed for U.S. secondary school teachers and other multipliers in the field of education to gain insight into many of the historical, social, religious, political, and economic factors that cumulatively resulted in the Holocaust. A program brochure can be downloaded here.
For more information visit their website here.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
No Generation of Silence: American Jews and the Holocaust in the Post-War Era
Hasia Diner, New York University
Jewish Studies Community Lecture Series
March 21, 2012 7:30 p.m.
Temple Israel
2324 Emerson Ave S, Minneapolis
American Jews in the two decades after the end of World War II found many ways to make the tragedy that had engulfed their people in Europe at the hands of the German Nazis a part of their communal culture. The Holocaust loomed large for them. How did postwar American Jews experiment with language and ideas to keep alive the memories of those who had perished in Europe-- and use their memories to effect changes in the world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s?
Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University and director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her many books include We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962, winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. She was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This Event is Free & Open to the Public
For more information please contact the Center for Jewish Studies at e-mail: jwst@umn.edu, phone: 612-624-4914.
This series is made possible by a generous gift in memory of Julia K. & Harold Segall.
Sponsoring Partners: U of M Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U of M Immigration History Research Center, U of M Depart. of History, Mount Zion Congregation, National Council of Jewish Women- St Paul Section, Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, and Temple Israel.
Jewish Studies Community Lecture Series
March 21, 2012 7:30 p.m.
Temple Israel
2324 Emerson Ave S, Minneapolis
American Jews in the two decades after the end of World War II found many ways to make the tragedy that had engulfed their people in Europe at the hands of the German Nazis a part of their communal culture. The Holocaust loomed large for them. How did postwar American Jews experiment with language and ideas to keep alive the memories of those who had perished in Europe-- and use their memories to effect changes in the world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s?
Hasia Diner is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University and director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her many books include We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962, winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. She was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This Event is Free & Open to the Public
For more information please contact the Center for Jewish Studies at e-mail: jwst@umn.edu, phone: 612-624-4914.
This series is made possible by a generous gift in memory of Julia K. & Harold Segall.
Sponsoring Partners: U of M Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U of M Immigration History Research Center, U of M Depart. of History, Mount Zion Congregation, National Council of Jewish Women- St Paul Section, Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, and Temple Israel.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
The International Human Rights Movement: A History
Aryeh Neier
February 28, 2012, 7:00 PM
McNamara Alumni Center
Maroon & Gold Room
200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis (East Bank)
Aryeh Neier has spent more than a half-century promoting and protecting the human rights of others. Born in Nazi Germany and a refugee at the age of two, Neier knew about violence from his earliest days. A tireless advocate for improvements in human rights globally, Neier has conducted investigations of human rights abuses in more than forty countries. He has played a leading role in the establishment of the international criminal courts that have heralded a new era of international justice.
Neier is one of the architects of the international human rights movement. Neier served as National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) throughout the 1970's where he led efforts to protect the civil rights of prisoners and individuals in mental hospitals and fought for the abolition of the death penalty. Founder of Human Rights Watch, Neier was executive director during the first 12 years of that influential organization's existence. Later this year, Neier will be stepping down as President of the Open Society Foundations, an organization that has expanded the human rights movement through its funding partnerships across the globe.
Join us as Neier reflects upon the accomplishments and challenges of the human rights movement of which he has played such an integral part.
Neier's talk is the second in the Human Rights for the 21st Century: History, Practice & Politics Speaker Series and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For more information please contact Whitney Taylor, Human Rights University e-mail: hrminor@umn.edu, phone: 612-626-7947.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Human Rights University, the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center, the Program in Human Rights and Health, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
February 28, 2012, 7:00 PM
McNamara Alumni Center
Maroon & Gold Room
200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis (East Bank)
Aryeh Neier has spent more than a half-century promoting and protecting the human rights of others. Born in Nazi Germany and a refugee at the age of two, Neier knew about violence from his earliest days. A tireless advocate for improvements in human rights globally, Neier has conducted investigations of human rights abuses in more than forty countries. He has played a leading role in the establishment of the international criminal courts that have heralded a new era of international justice.
Neier is one of the architects of the international human rights movement. Neier served as National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) throughout the 1970's where he led efforts to protect the civil rights of prisoners and individuals in mental hospitals and fought for the abolition of the death penalty. Founder of Human Rights Watch, Neier was executive director during the first 12 years of that influential organization's existence. Later this year, Neier will be stepping down as President of the Open Society Foundations, an organization that has expanded the human rights movement through its funding partnerships across the globe.
Join us as Neier reflects upon the accomplishments and challenges of the human rights movement of which he has played such an integral part.
Neier's talk is the second in the Human Rights for the 21st Century: History, Practice & Politics Speaker Series and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
For more information please contact Whitney Taylor, Human Rights University e-mail: hrminor@umn.edu, phone: 612-626-7947.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Human Rights University, the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center, the Program in Human Rights and Health, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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