On Friday, November 3, 2023, the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies held a conference on Race, Migration, and Memory. Keynote speaker Shimon Attie talked about "Night Watch and Other...
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The Program in Jewish Culture and Society-affiliated faculty member Brett Kaplan held a screening of the remarkable film No. 4 Street of Our Lady with special guest producer and director Judy Maltz...
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The 2019-2020 annual newsletter is now complete! The newsletter can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on...
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On Monday, November 6, 2017, with generous support from the Greenfield Lynch lecture series, we hosted a panel about James Friedman’s striking series, “12 Nazi Concentration Camps.” The panel...
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Diana Sacilowski earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages & Literatures, along with graduate certificates in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and Criticism and Interpretive Theory,...
Leah Wilks is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher currently based out of Brooklyn, NY (Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land) and originally from Durham, NC (Eno, Lumbee, Shakori, Sissapahaw, and the...
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society-affiliated faculty member Brett Kaplan held a screening of the remarkable film No. 4 Street of Our Lady with special guest producer and director Judy Maltz...- The following courses are pre-approved for the Jewish Studies major and minor. (400- and 500-level courses listed here may be used towards the completion of the Jewish Studies graduate certificate.)
- Armenian Studies Newsletter 2021 Upcoming for Spring 2023: a visit from Kevork Mourad! See posters below for more information.
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