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Temple Beth-El Sisterhood Holocaust Presentation & Tour
Temple Beth-El Sisterhood Holocaust Presentation & Tour
10:30am - 12:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 31, 2024 at 10:30am Ends Mar 31, 2024 at 12:00pm Please join Temple Beth-El Sisterhood for a light breakfast, tour, and a presentation by a second-generation survivor at the Holocaust Memorial of San Antonio on Sunday, March 31st at 10:30 a.m. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
ISGAP - “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements”
ISGAP - “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements”
10:00am - 1:00pm
(3h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 2, 2024 at 10:00am Ends Apr 2, 2024 at 1:00pm “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements” Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections- A Liberator & a Spy
Echoes & Reflections- A Liberator & a Spy
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 2, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Apr 2, 2024 at 3:00pm Deborah Levine speaks about her father, Aaron Levine, an Army intelligence officer who led a career as a liberator & spy. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
"Strangers in Their Own Land: Jewish Self-Awareness in Holocaust Memoirs"
"Strangers in Their Own Land: Jewish Self-Awareness in Holocaust Memoirs"
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 3, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Apr 3, 2024 at 4:30pm Professor Dorian Stuber leads a discussion on short excerpts describing the realization of what it means to be oppressed. Click for more info
2024 Genocide Awareness Lecture featuring Loung Ung
2024 Genocide Awareness Lecture featuring Loung Ung
4:30pm - 5:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 3, 2024 at 4:30pm Ends Apr 3, 2024 at 5:30pm Peace is not a wish. Peace is not something you want, dream of, and wait for others to deliver. Peace is an action. Many, many actions. Whether in one’s heart, community, or world, peace requires our daily actions. With over three decades of experience as a student activist, a professional agent of change working on campaigns to end violence against women, landmines, and child soldiers, Loung will explore how we can all lead in our daily lives to make a difference in our world. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime French History
The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime French History
3:30pm - 5:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 4, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Apr 4, 2024 at 5:00pm On July 16-17, 1942 in Occupied Paris, more than 13,000 French Jews were arrested by French Police. The victims were held in deplorable conditions at the Vélodrome d'Hiver or Vel d'Hiv, an indoor cycling stadium until they were sent to detainment camps outside of Paris where they either died or were deported to concentration camps. Dr. Eileen Angelini’s presentation will discuss how the Vichy Government planned this round-up and how the French government and people have since dealt with the pain. Click for more info
El Paso Holocaust Museum- "Unveiling Truths: Decoding Antisemitism in Media Narratives"
El Paso Holocaust Museum- "Unveiling Truths: Decoding Antisemitism in Media Narratives"
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 4, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Apr 4, 2024 at 7:00pm In-person panel discussion on an engaging exploration into the complexities of antisemitism in the media. The museum will delve deeply into the themes of the captivating novel, "Some Kind of Hate", by Sarah Darer Littman. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
An Evening with Chris Bohjalian author of "The Sandcastle Girls"
An Evening with Chris Bohjalian author of "The Sandcastle Girls"
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 7, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Apr 7, 2024 at 7:30pm Presentation & Book Signing with Chris Bohjalian on his award-winning novel about the Armenian Genocide. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
USC Shoah Foundation- "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History"
USC Shoah Foundation- "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History"
1:00pm - 2:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 8, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Apr 8, 2024 at 2:30pm The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research & USC Shoah Foundation present the Annual Sara & Asa Shapiro Scholar Lecture by Dan Stone (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London). Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
Can I See the Horns: Roots of Antisemitism presented by Marcia Jo Zerivitz
Can I See the Horns: Roots of Antisemitism presented by Marcia Jo Zerivitz
11:00am - 1:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 9, 2024 at 11:00am Ends Apr 9, 2024 at 1:00pm Antisemitism has ginormously increased here in the US and globally and has become normalized, especially on college campuses, and mostly based on conspiracy theories. Click for more info
"From Generation to Generation: Author Michelle Weinfeld Shares her Grandfather's Holocaust Survival Story
"From Generation to Generation: Author Michelle Weinfeld Shares her Grandfather's Holocaust Survival Story
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 9, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Apr 9, 2024 at 4:30pm Michelle Weinfeld, author of "From Generation to Generation: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity in the Aftermath of the Shoah" Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
Genetic Discrimination: Exploring the Echoes between Nazi and American Eugenic Histories
Genetic Discrimination: Exploring the Echoes between Nazi and American Eugenic Histories
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 10, 2024 at 11:00am Ends Apr 10, 2024 at 12:00pm Tiarra Cooper, Ph.D. Candidate & Teaching Associate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, shares an overview of the Nazi sterilization & euthanasia programs, & how these histories have functioned in/from American medical & political discourses. Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Echoes & Reflections: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 10, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Apr 10, 2024 at 3:00pm Against all odds, the very first civilian uprising against the Germans during WWII began 81 years ago on April 19, 1943, in the Warsaw ghetto. Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
Holocaust Museum El Paso- Book Discussion of "Some King of Hate" by Sarah Darer Littman
Holocaust Museum El Paso- Book Discussion of "Some King of Hate" by Sarah Darer Littman
5:00pm - 6:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 11, 2024 at 5:00pm Ends Apr 11, 2024 at 6:00pm Presented via Zoom, this is a book discussion of "Some Kind of Hate" by Sarah Darer Littman Click for more info |
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
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ISGAP- Understanding the Holocaust Through Literature: The Many Entry Wedges
ISGAP- Understanding the Holocaust Through Literature: The Many Entry Wedges
10:00am - 1:00pm
(3h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 15, 2024 at 10:00am Ends Apr 15, 2024 at 1:00pm Understanding the Holocaust Through Literature: The Many Entry Wedges with Dr. Mehak Burza Click for more info
Shalom Austin- Yom's Educational Electives
Shalom Austin- Yom's Educational Electives
6:00pm - 8:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 15, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Apr 15, 2024 at 8:00pm Join Shalom Austin for an evening of learning and classes related to Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, & Yom HaAtzmaut Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections- Silent Witness: Unveiling Bystander Complicity in the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections- Silent Witness: Unveiling Bystander Complicity in the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 16, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Apr 16, 2024 at 4:00pm Led by classroom teacher and Echoes & Reflections facilitator Tyrone Shaw, educators will learn valuable and pedagogically sound strategies to teach about the role of bystanders during the Holocaust. Click for more info |
Short Hair Detention: Channy Chhi Laux, survival of the Cambodian Genocide -- via Zoom
Short Hair Detention: Channy Chhi Laux, survival of the Cambodian Genocide -- via Zoom
10:00am - 11:30am
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 17, 2024 at 10:00am Ends Apr 17, 2024 at 11:30am When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia in 1975, Channy Chhi Laux was thirteen years old. For the next four years she endured starvation, forced labor, disease, and tremendous lost. In June 1979, she arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska as a Cambodian refugee and enrolled at Lincoln High School. Despite speaking no English and having not attended school for four years, she managed to achieve academic success, thanks in part to the kindness and support of her teachers. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Santa Clara University and undergraduate degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then spent 30 years working in Silicon Valley as an engineer in the Aerospace and Biotech industries. She is now an award-winning author and chef. Join us for an intimate talk with Channy to learn more about surviving genocide and the importance of compassion. Click for more info
USHMM 2024 First Person Series: Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg
USHMM 2024 First Person Series: Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg
12:00pm - 3:00pm
(3h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 17, 2024 at 12:00pm Ends Apr 17, 2024 at 3:00pm Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg is an hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor. Click for more info |
USC Shoah Foundation: Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation: Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 18, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Apr 18, 2024 at 4:00pm USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series about Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections - Beyond Hitler: Unraveling the Complexities of Nazi Leadership in Inciting the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections - Beyond Hitler: Unraveling the Complexities of Nazi Leadership in Inciting the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 18, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Apr 18, 2024 at 4:00pm While Adolf Hitler is often the symbol of Nazi atrocities, the intricate dynamics within the Nazi regime’s upper echelon of leaders promoted increasingly extreme policies up to and including genocide. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections- Teaching About Genocide: The Armenian Genocide
Echoes & Reflections- Teaching About Genocide: The Armenian Genocide
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 22, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Apr 22, 2024 at 4:00pm The complex & nuanced history of the Armenian Genocide can be highlighted through the use of testimony-based resources. Click for more info |
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The Specter of Persecution: Queer Women in the Third Reich
The Specter of Persecution: Queer Women in the Third Reich
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 1, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends May 1, 2024 at 2:00pm Female homosexuality was not explicitly criminalized in Nazi Germany, but queer women were still viewed and persecuted as an outsider group. Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections- Teaching About Perpetrators: The Role of the German Police in the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections- Teaching About Perpetrators: The Role of the German Police in the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 1, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends May 1, 2024 at 3:00pm This webinar will explore the transformation of the German police, staffed by "ordinary men," into an instrument of state repression and genocide under the Nazi regime. Click for more info
USHMM: 2024 Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture- Preserving Shared History: Art in Internment during the Holocaust
USHMM: 2024 Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture- Preserving Shared History: Art in Internment during the Holocaust
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 1, 2024 at 7:00pm Ends May 1, 2024 at 8:00pm The Nazi party introduced antisemitic exclusionary laws shortly after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor in January 1933. While Jews were the primary target of persecution and murder, those who did not fit the “Aryan” ideal espoused by the Nazis were also persecuted under exclusionary regulations, including Black people, and Sinti and Roma in Germany, among others. Click for more info |
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Jewish American Heritage Month- An Evening with Award-Winning Novelist, Dara Horn
Jewish American Heritage Month- An Evening with Award-Winning Novelist, Dara Horn
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 2, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends May 2, 2024 at 7:00pm Dara Horn, the award-winning author of six books, will speak to participants about her body of work and offer educators tangible methods to elevate and celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month in their classrooms. Click for more info |
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