MAY 12, 2021 / 12 P.M.- 1:10 P.M. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
“BESIEGED VOICES FROM UKRAINE”
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has caused the death and injury of thousands, the forced flight of millions, and the physical destruction of cities and towns. Please join historian Yuri Radchenko, poet Ostap Slyvynsky, and photojournalist Anton Skyba, who will address the complexities of lives disrupted and the experience of unfolding war from the perspectives of their three professions. Yuri Radchenko is the co-founder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe in Kharkiv. Ostap Slyvynsky has published several collections of poetry and is the recipient of prestigious Ukrainian and international literary awards. Anton Skyba has been covering the occupation of his native Donetsk and Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014; he himself was captured, tortured, and released in July of that year. Co-Chairs: Natalya Lazar and Elissa Bemporad.
This event is hosted in association with:
The Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center—CUNY
The School of General Studies and Graduate Education and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM
PANELISTS:
Yuliya Abibok, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
Ihor Dvorkin, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
Artem Kharchenko, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
Anatoly Podolsky, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv
CO-CHAIRS:
Natalya Lazar, Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
APRIL 28, 2021 / 12 P.M.- 1:15 P.M. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
“FLEEING A HOME, SEEKING A HOME: JEWISH REFUGEES IN MODERN TIMES”
This panel grapples with refugee Jews displaced by war in three different geopolitical contexts: Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Profs Jeff Veidlinger, Eliyana Adler, and Shay Hazkani recapture lost voices of displacement and rethink the meaning of “refugee” as they explore the experiences of Ukrainian Jews who left their homes in the wake of anti-Jewish violence unleashed during the Russian Civil War; Polish Jews who, in the midst of the Holocaust, fled the Germans and were deported by the Soviets to Central Asia; and of Moroccan Jews, who immigrated to Israel shortly after the establishment of the Jewish state. Chair: Prof. Elissa Bemporad.
This event is hosted in association with The Holocaust and The United Nations Outreach Programme, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations.
ELIYANA ADLER
Associate Professor, History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Panelist
SHAY HAZKANI
Panelist
Assistant Professor, History and Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
JEFF VEIDLINGER
Panelist
Jospeh Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Elissa Bemporad
Chair
Professor of History; Jerry and William Ungar Professor in Eastern European Jewish History and Holocaust, Queens College; Graduate Center- CUNY
PANELISTS:
Yuliya Abibok, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
Ihor Dvorkin, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
Artem Kharchenko, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”
Anatoly Podolsky, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv
CHAIR:
Natalya Lazar, Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
CO-CHAIR:
Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
PANELISTS:
MIR ENAYATULLAH MOSWAI
OBAIDA OMAR
DAVID SILVER
ELLEN SMITH
NABILA QADIRI
CHAIR
DEBÓRAH DWORK
ELIZABETH ANTHONY, PH.D.
Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
Author
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust
ALBERT LICHTBLAU
(Formerly) Chair of the Center for Jewish Cultural History, and of the History Department at the University of Salzburg
Interviewer
Inter alia: Die Wahrheit der Erinnerung, with Eleanor Lappin
SPRING 2022 VIRTUAL SERIES: REFUGEES & DISPLACED PERSONS
Our Spring Term virtual programs interrogate the meaning of “home” for survivors of genocide and forcibly displaced persons. Why did Holocaust survivors return home to Vienna? How do Afghan refugees create a home in Rochester, NY? And what of people who are forced to flee and find a temporary home where they land?
PLEASE SAVE THESE DATES AND JOIN US:
17 February 2022 12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
“Where Do I Belong? Holocaust Survivors Return to Vienna”*
23 March 2022 7:00-8:15 PM (Daylight Saving Time, East Coast)
“Refugee Resettlement: Finding a Home in Rochester, NY”
28 April 2022 12:00-1:15 PM (Daylight Saving Time, East Coast)
“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”*
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
*In association with The Holocaust and The United Nations Outreach Programme, Outreach Division, Department of Global Communications, United Nations
17 February 2022 12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)“Where Do I Belong? Holocaust Survivors Return to Vienna”*
Register: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S_Vi7qBDQ_6ssQIacXxBWg
23 March 2022 7:00-8:15 PM (Daylight Saving Time, East Coast)
“Refugee Resettlement: Finding a Home in Rochester, NY”
Register: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_92hIcYSWTBy1XefW5qoyzQ
28 April 2022 12:00-1:15 PM (Daylight Saving Time, East Coast)
“Fleeing a Home, Seeking a Home: Jewish Refugees in Modern Times”*
https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x68dd0OMSCCmf3U2S6Yt4Q
DAVID HERNANDEZ
Associate Professor, Department of Latina/o Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Panelist
“Whiplashed: Refugees, Detention, and the ‘Trump Era.'”
MARLENE RAMOS
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Geography, CUNY
Panelist
“The Making Immigration Imprisonment in New Jersey County Jails and Lessons for the Fight Against Detention”
MARION KAPLAN
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, NYU
Chair
OCTOBER 27, 2021 / 12 P.M.- 1:15 P.M. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
THE NEGEV BEDOUIN: EMPTIED LANDS AND DISPLACED PEOPLE
THABET ABU BAS
Co-Executive Director, The Abraham Initiatives; Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University
Panelist
NETTA AMIR-SHIFF
Doctoral candidate, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University
Panelist
MORAD ELSANA
Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies, American University
Panelist
Indigenous Land Rights in Israel: A Comparative Study of the Bedouin
YEELA RAANAN
Department of Public Administration, Sapir Academic College,
Public Relations Officer, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev, Israel.
Panelist
ELI KARETNY
Deputy Director, Ralph Bunche Institute.
Panel Chair & Moderator
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 / 12 P.M.- 1:15 P.M. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
DISPOSSESSING NATIVE AMERICA: INDIGENEITY, LAND, AND RECLAMATION”
MARGARET D. JACOBS
Charles Mach Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Director, Center for Great Plains Studies
Panelist
After 100 Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands
CLAUDIO SAUNT
Russell Professor of American History, University of Georgia
Panelist
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, Bancroft Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, finalist National Book Award
JUSTIN DE LEON
Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Occidental College
Panelist
Resurgent Visual Sovereignty (forthcoming)
MIKAL BROTNOV ECKSTROM
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Great Plains Studies, UNL
Panel Chair and Moderator
Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History Without American Indians
APRIL 22, 2021 / 12 P.M.- 1:15 P.M. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)
“In Honor of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski: New Scholarship on the History and Memory of the Holocaust in Poland”
JOANNA SLIWA, Ph.D.
Historian, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Program Chair and Moderator
Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust, awarded the 2020 Fraenkel Prize
MIRANDA BRETHOUR
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, The Graduate Center-CUNY
Panelist
“Life and Death in the Shadow of Sobibór: Economic Dimensions of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Town of Włodawa, 1939-1944”
This paper traces the lines of communication between the Sobibór extermination camp and the Eastern Polish town of Włodawa to explore how knowledge of the mechanisms of extermination shaped Jewish-Gentile interactions during the Holocaust. Drawing on court documents and postwar testimonies, the paper illuminates how widespread local awareness of the murder of Jews at Sobibór drove the plunder and take-over of ‘post-Jewish’ goods and property in and around the town.
ALICJA PODBIELSKA
Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Clark University
Panelist
“The Righteous or Szmalcowniks?! Narrative of Rescue v. Holocaust Scholarship”
How is the commemoration of assistance to Jews used to distort history and suppress research on the Holocaust in Poland?
JONATHAN ZISOOK
Doctoral Candidate, PhD Program in Sociology, The Graduate Center-CUNY
Panelist
“‘Polityka Historyczna’ and the Instrumentalization of the Holocaust in Contemporary Poland”
This paper will explore the diverse political strategies employed by the Polish government to distort and instrumentalize the Holocaust as a constitutive feature of its “policy on history” (polityka historyczna).
With comments from Profs. Engelking and Grabowski to follow.
