This workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars working on displacement and forced migration from Nazi-controlled Europe. Its participants ask how refugees from Nazism reimagined their sense of home and their identities as Europeans and/or Jews after their flight? Participating scholars draw on the methods of performance studies to complicate older paradigms […]
Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture Keynote: Performing Exile: New Approaches to the Study of Refugees from Nazi Europe View Conference Program Michael Geyer (Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European History and former Faculty Director of the Human Rights Program, now the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago) researches […]
17 October – 19 October 2023 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Higgins Lounge Dana Commons Fifth International Graduate Student Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies This multi-day conference gathers an outstanding cohort of thirty-three advanced doctoral students and early post-doctoral scholars from fifteen countries who have travelled to the Clark University campus to […]
The keynote address for the Fifth International Graduate Student Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies will feature Wendy Lower of Claremont McKenna College. A reception will follow.
Explore the transnational nature of humanitarian aid in Myanmar two years after a coup ushered in military rule there.
This panel discussion will explore the transnational nature of humanitarian aid in Myanmar two years after a coup ushered in military rule there, including challenges, dilemmas, and everyday politics of aid and advocacy in Myanmar, including among a growing diaspora of Burmese activists abroad.
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 […]
