The Belonging Talks: An Integration & Belonging Hub Webinar Series Speaker: Sandra Grudic (Doctoral Candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Shirley and Ralph Rose Fellow, Clark University) Watch video of event
The Integration and Belonging Hub Webinar Series presents Sandra Grudic, who will ponder the messiness of belonging, drawing upon her refugee — and non-refugee — experiences.
Performed by Stephanie Weiss (mezzo-soprano) and Christina Wright-Ivanova (piano), as part of the Vienna, 1890-1938: Capital of Tradition, Innovation, Promise, and Peril symposium.
In the first decades of the twentieth-century Vienna was a locus for cultural and intellectual innovation, as well as for radical politics of left and right. This symposium brings together a group of leading interdisciplinary scholars to explore the interactions of art, music, and cultural politics in the decades preceding the rise of National Socialism and […]
Robert Deam Tobin was the inaugural Henry J. Leir Professor of Language, Literature, and Culture and a Strassler Center contributing faculty member. A remarkable teacher and scholar, he was an expert in the fields of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, gender studies, human rights, and German and European cultural studies. A symposium examining sexuality, […]
Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film “The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden),” based on Hugo Bettauer’s 1922 satirical novel, follows the political and personal consequences of an anti-Semitic law expelling the city’s Jews. The film’s stinging critique of the politics of anti-Semitism led to its banning by the Nazis. Featuring […]
Elżbieta Goździak will discuss the plights of Ukrainian migrants and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers in Poland.
This Integration and Belonging Hub webinar will feature Gaisu Yari, project director of Afghan Voices of Hope, which collects the personal narratives of displaced Afghans who escaped their country in 2021.
Professor Chris Davey and guest Espoir Nindeba will discuss "Exploring/Recording Stories of Survival: Gatumba Survivors Project."
Mingle with friends and enjoy a cup of coffee or cider while listening to lightning talk presentations from international faculty.
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.
To celebrate the publication of "The Confessions of Matthew Strong," the debut novel by Professor Ousmane Power-Greene, a faculty panel will examine how the history of racial violence is depicted in fiction.
