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Myanmar and the Politics of Humanitarianism: Diaspora, Identity, and Advocacy

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.

A Past, Present and Future of Holocaust History

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. 

Performing Exile: New Approaches to the Study of Refugees from Nazi Europe

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 […]

A Conversation about October 7th and Gaza

Please join us for a conversation about the attacks in Israel on October 7th, what is currently happening in Gaza, and what it has to do with us. 

Sexual Violence in Russia’s War against Ukraine: Nature, Effects and Responses

Especially for Students Lecture Sexual Violence in Russia’s War against Ukraine: Nature, Effects and Responses Speaker: Marta Havryshko (Dr. Thomas Zand Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies at Clark University) Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukrainian and international human rights organizations have documented violations against civilians in […]