2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Community Event featuring Father Partick Desbois

Thursday, January 26, 2017, 7:00 PM
Beth El Synagogue, 5225 Barry Street West, St. Louis Park 
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) is cosponsoring this event, presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC) in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day featuring a talk by Father Patrick Desbois, who will discuss his work identifying sites of mass execution during World War II. CHGS is providing a round-trip shuttle bus for students.
Reserve your spot here.

20th Anniversary Programming on Holocaust Art: Yad Vashem guided virtual tour, Museum panel, Educator Workshop, and UMN course GLOS 3900, "Holocaust Art: History and Commemoration"

SHENDAR PUBLIC EVENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH HER VISIT:

Wednesday, April 26
Influx Space, Regis Center for Art
YEHUDIT SHENDAR, retired Museum Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Yad Vashem
"Yad Vashem: Beyond the Museum," talk and virtual tour of Israel’s Holocaust memorial

Wednesday, May 3
120 Andersen Library
"Conveying the Unspeakable: Art and the History Museum," panel event featuring:
YEHUDIT SHENDAR, Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Yad Vashem
DANIEL SPOCK, Director, Minnesota History Center Museum
LIN NELSON-MAYSON, Director, UMN Goldstein Museum of Design

Tuesday, May 9
"Teaching the Holocaust through Art" educator workshop featuring YEHUDIT SHENDAR and local educators

ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  REGISTRATION INFORMATION FORTHCOMING.

GLOS 3900 - 003 Topics in Global Studies

Course open to public enrollment!  Please see the course description on the UMN ClassInfo page.

NOW ON VIEW | "Displaced: Photos and Remembrances of Maxine Rude: 1945-1946"

Displaced: Photos and Remembrances of Maxine Rude: 1945-1946

Exhibition now on view!

Eiger-Zaidenweber Holocaust Resource Center, Sabes Jewish Community Center 

4330 Cedar Lake Rd S, Minneapolis, MN 55416

November Panel on the Politics of Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights

Wednesday, November 16, 5:00 PM, 1210 Heller Hall

“Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights” 

Panel with FRANCISCO FERRÁNDIZ, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), ANTONIUS ROBBEN, University of Utrecht, and LINDSEY THOMAS, ‎Assistant Medical Examiner for Hennepin County;  moderated by UMN faculty LISA HILBINK, Political Science. 

The panel addressed the political and legal ramifications associated with exhumations of mass graves, and the process of compiling forensic evidence to aid in the investigation of suspicious deaths. The panel references the newly revised "The Minnesota Protocol" on extrajudicial killings, and two recent publications on related topics: Necropolitics, edited by Ferrandiz and Robben, which examines the complex social, political and psychological dimensions surrounding mass graves left by war and acts of terror in a variety of local contexts (Bosnia, Argentina, Spain, Korea, Rwanda among other countries) and Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present, the recent book edited by L. Hilbink and O. Ferran.

Cosponsored by the Human Rights Program. Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.