The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY condemns the massacres of civilians carried out by Russian troops in the occupied territories of Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion. Abundant evidence proves that the massacres are not isolated and exceptional […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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ussia’s attack on Ukraine has resulted in the destruction of cities and towns, the death of thousands, and the displacement of millions. Please join Ukrainian scholars Yulia Abibok, Ihor Dvorkin, Artem Kharchenko, and Anatoly Podolsky, whose lives have been disrupted by Russia’s aggression, in a discussion of their work and […]
“Refugee Resettlement: Finding a Home in Rochester, NY” The story of Afghan resettlement can be told from many perspectives: the refugees who seek to flee; the aid workers who situate them; the volunteers who help the newcomers take root in the community. Featuring Nabila Qadiri, Mir Enayatullah Mosawi, Obaida Omar, […]
The Center Advisory Board condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and cynical lies to justify Russia’s attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. We stand with all the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose this war. We call on leaders and citizens around the world to […]
Center Advisory Board Member Victoria Sanford interviewed about Maya land rights and violence against Indigenous environmental activists in a landmark Inter-American human rights case.
What prompted Viennese Jews to return to their home city after the devastation of the Holocaust? What were their hopes, and what did they find? In this conversation with historian Prof Albert Lichtblau, Dr Elizabeth Anthony draws upon her new book, The Compromise of Return, to plumb survivors’ experiences of […]
Center Advisory Board member Professor Victoria Sanford interviewed about a key Guatemalan land rights fight. Read on in Mongabay.
Prof. Victoria Sanford has a new piece in Revista, Harvard Review of Latin America. The piece, “Friends Who Disappear: Reflecting in the Time of Covid-19,” is out today. You can read it on their site.
Center Advisory Board member Prof Victoria Sanford plumbs the texture of terror in her newly published piece, “We’ve Come for the Garbage.” Drawing on her extensive field research on the Guatemalan criminal justice system and its role in the maintenance of inequality, patriarchy, power, and impunity, Prof Sanford explores what it means […]