Performance of the Musical Drama Broucci (Fireflies), based on the Czech folktale performed at the Terezin / WWII Jewish camp-ghetto of Theresienstadt

Holocaust Memorial Day event at CHGS in conjunction with HGMV

Thursday, May 5, 4:00 PM
710 Social Sciences Building
*Holocaust Memorial Day*
SIDI N'DIAYE, Research Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Role of Historical Hate Representations in the Murder of Neighbors in Rwanda (1994) and Poland (World War II)

An examination of the place of historical and hatred representations in the murders of Jewish neighbors during the Second World War in Poland and of Tutsi neighbors, during the 1994 genocide. Through the analysis of these proximity massacres, two forms of extreme violence will be discussed in comparing the pitches and the conscious and unconscious psychological and theoretical justifications. 

HGMV Student Funding Opportunities

We are pleased to offer HGMV graduate students funding support for travel to present their research at academic conferences, which includes an exciting new partnership with the UMN Libraries: 

CHGS / HRP travel awards funded by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Human Rights Program

Library Archives travel awards: the Kautz Family YMCA Archives HGMV Graduate Award, and the IHRC Archives HGMV Graduate Award

Funding for both types of awards will be provided to graduate students in the form of reimbursement for travel costs and registration fees for conferences, symposia, workshops, and meetings where they will present their work.

Topics must be relevant to the Holocaust, genocide, mass violence and other systemic human rights violations. Applications accepted on a rolling basis, first consideration will be given to those students who have presented or are scheduled to present their work in the HGMV workshop.  

Library awards require prior consultation with an archivist, and incorporation of archive research in the paper.  Archivists are always available for consult via ihrca@umn.edu and ymcaarch@umn.edu.

Requirements

- Brief cover letter (directed to CHGS / HRP)
- Date and title of conference / symposium / workshop / meeting
- Title of presentation and abstract presentation (500 words)
- Funds required (up to $500 US )
- Date and title of HGMV Workshop presentation
- Date of consultation with archivist and collection(s) utilized (for Library Archives award)
- Other funding secured or being sought for travel, through UMN or elsewhere
- Appropriately and accurately cite Archives collections in future presentations / papers (for Library Archives award)

Email materials to jhammer@umn.edu and hamm0229@umn.edu.

April 21 Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence (HGMV) research group meeting

Thursday, April 21, 4:00 PM 710 Social Sciences
MARÍA JOSÉ MÉNDEZ GUTIÉRREZ, Department of Political Science
“The soundtrack of war: ‘Narcocorridos’ and drug war violence in Latin America”

 

Due to the widespread impact of the drug wars in Mexico and Central America, the violence that afflicts the region increasingly marks cultural products. Narcocorrido music lives and sings the complexities and contradictions of violence in Mesoamerica. In some ways, drug trafficking has become the political unconscious that increasingly defines Latin American art production. Adopting a storytelling folk song style, which once chronicled stories about revolutionary figures and soldiers who fought against the U.S. invasion of Mexico, narcocorridos tell stories of the drug war since the 1970s.

Holocaust Survivors, their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness

Wednesday, April 20, 6:30PM

1210 Heller Hall
ARLENE STEIN, Rutgers University 
"Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness"

Talk to be followed by a reception and book signing; copies of Reluctant Witnesses will be available for sale at the event. 

Space is limited! If you plan to join us, please Register Here.

Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, made possible by the generosity of individual supporters, cosponsored by the Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota (CHAIM), and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC).

Autism under the Nazis

Tuesday, April 19, 4:00PM
1210 Heller Hall
EDITH SHEFFER, Stanford University
'No Soul': Hans Asperger and the Nazi Origins of Autism
 
Sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Center for German and European Studies.

This talk examines Hans Asperger's development of the autism diagnosis Nazi Vienna, uncovering his intellectual and professional networks in Nazi psychiatry and his involvement in the Nazi euthanasia program that murdered disabled children.

2016 Ohanessian Lecture by PETER BALAKIAN: "The Armenian Genocide and Cultural Destruction"

Thursday, April 14, 7:00PM (University Hall, McNamara Alumni Center) 
*2016 Ohanessian Lecture*
PETER BALAKIAN, Colgate University
The Armenian Genocide and Cultural Destruction

 Presented by the Ohanessian Chair, cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Using an interdisciplinary, cultural studies approach, Balakian explores Raphael Lemkin’s often overlooked concept of cultural destruction in the case of the Armenian Genocide. Lemkin’s thinking was significantly shaped by the Armenian Genocide, as seen here in his newly published memoirs and other documents in the collection of his papers held at the American Jewish Archives. Balakian considers the Ottoman government’s vandalism and destruction of Armenian cultural monuments, the mass killing of Armenian intellectuals, torture using crucifixes, and forced conversion to Islam. In deepening the idea of culture and its relationship to genocide, he draws upon several models in the social sciences and humanities. The conclusion assesses the long-term impact of cultural destruction on Armenians in the diaspora and the Republic.

More information here. Registration form here. Facebook event here.