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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg

The inaugural Albert M. Tapper Lecture in commemoration of Kristallnacht will look at the relationship between early Holocaust memoirs and testimony, and what we can learn about what could and could not be said in 1944.

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Holocaust Perpetrators in History and Fiction

How do fictional representations relate to the truth historians have established about the past? Focusing on the Holocaust and Holocaust perpetrators, this conversation will examine the chasm between fiction and scholarship.

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Faculty Conversation on First-Year Common Read

An interdisciplinary panel of Clark faculty will discuss “Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation,” the common text in this semester’s Common Academic Experience for first-year students.

Education, Remembrance, Prevention: Careers in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

  Education, Remembrance, Prevention: Careers in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Speakers: Morgan Blum Schneider, Sara Brown, Mikal Eckstrom, Jonathan Edelman, Josh Franklin, and Anna Voremberg Ellement Clark undergraduates trained in Holocaust history, genocide studies, and human rights are prepared for rewarding careers in education, remembrance and prevention.  Through coursework, research projects, and internships, they gain […]

April 21, 2022: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World

Speaker: Séverine Autesserre (Professor and Chair of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University) In this talk based on her latest book The Frontlines of Peace, Autesserre will tell the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and communities that have found effective ways to confront violence. Drawing on 20 years of work in peacebuilding, […]

April 12, 2022: From Holocaust Denial to Holocaust Distortion

Speaker: Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa, Professor of History) is  co-founder of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw (2003) and a specialist in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland. He is the recipient of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Hunt for the Jews: […]

April 7 and 8, 2022: Animating Absence: Photographs in Liquid Time

Speakers: Marianne Hirsch (Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University) Leo Spitzer (K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College) Workshop: Representing Absence: Refugees, Forced Migration, and Aftermath  Marianne Hirsch, Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University, and Leo Spitzer, K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at Dartmouth College, […]

March 17, 2022: Living in Climate Refuge 

Speakers: Justin Hosbey (Assistant Professor, Emory University), Tessa Rose Farmer (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia) and Caterina Scaramelli (Assistant Professor, Boston University) Strassler Center Professors Sultan Doughan and Frances Tanzer organized a workshop to examine climate induced displacement, its historical implications, and current dimensions. They directed a wide-ranging conversation with Justin Hosbey (Emory University), Caterina […]