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Campus Events
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- Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT
- 7/13/2009 9:00 PM
- Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast Broadcast of talk given by Taner Akcam and Eric Weitz at the IAS on November 29, 2006, "A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility." Program will appear on TPT-Channel 17 on broadcast television, and on satellite and Minnesota Channel cable stations; Channel 13 on the Comcast C... more
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- American Genocide and Justice - program airing on TPT
- 8/8/2009 7:00 PM
- Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast Broadcast of talk given by Gerald Vizenor at the IAS on October 10, 2006, "Genocide Tribunals: Native Human Rights and Survivance." Professor Vizenor proposes establishing formal tribunals in various states to indict and prosecute alleged perpetrators, in absentia, of crimes against humanity an... more
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- Workshop, The Faces of Genocide: Bosnia and the Holocaust
- 10/10/2009 9:00 AM
- Location: Off Campus, Univerisity of Minnesota, Duluth Workshop The Faces of Genocide: Bosnia and the Holocaust Saturday, October 10th, 2009 9:00 am - 4:00 pm The Bosnian Crisis Bosnian War Crime Tribunals Photographs: Bosnia and Auschwitz Moving Against Genocide: The Holocaust Through Dance Surv... more
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- Workshop - Genocide and Gender-based Violence: Darfur, the Holocaust, and American Indians
- 10/24/2009 9:30 AM
- Location: Off Campus Workshop - Genocide and Gender-based Violence: Darfur, the Holocaust, and American Indians October 24, 2009 9:30am - 4:00pm University of Minnesota - Duluth Featured speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Holocaust Scholar, Gustavus Adolphus College"Wo... more
Community Events
CHGS in the News
"Holocaust Survivors Share Stories About Their Experiences" - Fox News
February 27th, 2008
http://www.keyc.tv/node/20174Visual History Archive Subscription
The University of Minnesota Libraries have become subscribers to the Visual History Archive developed by the USC Shoah Foundation institute for Visual History and Education.
July 31st, 2007From TPT/Channel 17 Twin Cities
The Minnesota Channel has a new distribution option available to its partners, that could be especially useful for those, like the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, that have been making DVD copies of our collaborative television programs to mail out to schools around the nation for classroom use.
April 6th, 2007
Courses
HIST 3960/GLOS 3900 Sec 007: Early 20th Century Middle East & Modern Turkey
Fall Semester 2007, Tues/Thurs 9:45-11:00 am
War in Irag; fighting between Shi'ite and Sunni; military coup d'etat in Turkey; Israel-Palestine conflict; the threat of war in Lebanon--these are some topics that appear everyday in the headlines from the Middle East.
August 16th, 2007History 3727W: History of the Holocaust
Fall 2007 course.
Study of the 1933-45 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on the basis of "race." European anti-Semitism, implications of Social Darwinism and Race Theory, Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders,
August 10th, 2007
resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.FREN 3650: Topics in French/Francophone Cultures
Fall 2007 course on Post-Holocaust France: Competition for Victimhood. In recent years, debates have erupted in France concerning the traumas endured by the parents and ancestors of French Muslims and other French nationals of African descent. A legacy of France's involvement in the Atlantic slave-trade and of the colonization of North and West Africa which ended with Algerian independence in 1962, French ethnic minorities are claiming official recognition and the status of victims of the French Republic.
August 6th, 2007ANTH 4980: Warfare and Human Evolution
Fall 2007 course. In this seminar, we will read and discuss classic and recent texts on this broad and often divisive subject. To better assess the arguments presented in survey and theoretical papers, we will read original ethnographic materials, with each student choosing one subsistence society as the focus of their research efforts.
August 6th, 2007