Beth El Synagogue, 5225 Barry Street West, St. Louis Park
*International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration*
FATHER PATRICK DESBOIS
"A Voice of Conscience"
Organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, cosponsored by CHGS, St. Cloud State University Center for Holocaust & Genocide Education, and Beth El Synagogue Jewish Institute of Life and Learning.
Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 PM
Mount Zion Temple, 1300 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ, University College London
“Rascals, Fugitives, and Gentlemen: The Hidden History of Jews and Photojournalism”
Organized by the Center for Jewish Studies.
Tuesday, February 14, 2:30 PM
Best Buy Theater - Northrop Auditorium
ROGER GRUNWALD
"The Mitzvah Project"
A one-man performance and presentation about the Mischlinge - Nazi soldiers of Jewish descent
Organized with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Austrian Studies.
Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 PM
Weisman Art Museum
DARCY BUERKLE Smith College
Charlotte Salomon’s Art, Autobiography and the Holocaust
Organized by the Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 2, 2:00 PM *tentative*
Fort Snelling State Park
IYEKIYAPIWIN DARLENE ST. CLAIR, St. Cloud State University
Tour of Bdote, sacred Dakota site at Ft. Snelling State Park
Thursday - Saturday, April 6 - 8
*International Symposium*
"Comparative Genocide Studies and the Holocaust: Conflict and Convergence"
Organized with the Ohanessian Chair. Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Thursday, April 6, 7:00 PM
*Symposium Keynote and 2017 Ohanessian Lecture*
TIMOTHY SNYDER, Yale University
"The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present"
Organized with the Ohanessian Chair. Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Thursday, April 13
PHILLIP SPENCER, Kingston University
"Antisemitism and the Left: The Return of the Jewish Question"
Cosponsored by the Ohanessian Chair.
Wednesday, April 19
Sabes Jewish Community Center
Sabes Jewish Community Center
*Exhibition Opening*
"Re:Telling:
Holocaust Art" exhibit opening and reception for UMN visiting scholar
YEHUDIT SHENDAROrganized with the Sabes Jewish Community Center.
SERGE AVEDIKIAN, Director
Screening of “Nous avons bu la même eau” ("We Drank the Same Water"), a film about the Armenian Genocide, and Q&A with film director Serge Avedikian
Organized with the Ohanessian Chair.
Wednesday, April 26
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
Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
Wednesday, May 3
"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
Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation, cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies.
Thursday, May 9
"Teaching the Holocaust through Art" educator workshop with YEHUDIT SHENDAR
Made possible by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Endowment Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation.
