We invite you to attend the upcoming Sudan Workshop, a two-day event dedicated to deep analysis and discussion of the historical, political, and cultural dynamics shaping Sudan and South Sudan. Register for the keynote (Sep 17, 5:00pm) Location: Graduate Center CUNY, Room 9206365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10035 Keynote […]
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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Eastern European survivors created yizker bikher – memorial books – to honor their murdered loved ones and destroyed towns. These collaboratively-written volumes were one way for survivors to reclaim their lives and memories. Often dismissed as nothing more than nostalgic, amateur histories, these yizker bikher, as […]
Elderly Jews were among the most vulnerable groups during the Holocaust, yet little scholarly and literary work has focused on their experiences. Not only were older Jews usually the first to be murdered by the Nazis, they were also less likely to survive the hardships imposed by the regime. What […]
Nearly twelve years after Daesh’s genocide against the Yazidis, justice for Yazidi women and girls remains incomplete, especially following the closure of UNITAD despite its progress in documenting crimes. The event brings together policymakers and experts to explore legal pathways, strengthen accountability efforts, and identify concrete international actions to advance […]
Long before their country joined the war, American aid workers undertook rescue efforts abroad. Who were these women and men who sought to save lives? Debórah Dwork, Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, will speak about her new book, Saints and […]
Professor Alexandra Délano Alonso will engage authors Yael Siman and Matthew Hone in a conversation about their new book, Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances. Amid the extreme violence that plagues Mexico, enforced disappearances have surged, exacerbated by systemic macro-criminality and widespread impunity. […]
Books are under attack in the United States. According to PEN America, the latter half of 2023 saw an unprecedented surge of book bans: 4,349 bans across 23 states. More books were banned in those six months that in the previous twelve. Protesting that culture of censorship and suppression, the […]
The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) – a systematic effort to annihilate the Kurdish population — is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only Middle East state crime to be tried under the 1948 UN […]
The fourth and final event in the “Out of the Frame” series hosted by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. The ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan have witnessed mass killings of civilians, internal displacement, and the destruction of […]
“Genocide” has become a keyword for our time, deployed by victim groups and their advocates in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. While a powerful cry for help and attention as “the crime of crimes,” do “genocide” allegations perform the work intended by their claimants? And what of patently self-serving […]