Handel Foundation-Greenspan Trust Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This lecture series brings a speaker to the College each year to address issues related to genocide and the Holocaust, or makes possible other scholarly activities to heighten students’ understanding of these topics.
Last Gathering in Haigerloch: German-Jewish Survivors in their Hometowns, 1945 - 1949
April 18, 2024
- Speaker: Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Why? Explaining the Holocaust
April 13, 2023
- Speaker: Dr. Peter Hayes, Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
The Burning Tigris, Armenian Genocide and Modernity
April 25, 2019
- Speaker: Award-winning author and poet Peter Balakian
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
The Meaning & Ramifications of Poland’s New Holocaust Law
April 25, 2018
- Speaker: Dr. Anna Sommer Schneider, associate director at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Anti-Semitism: Global to Local
April 26, 2017
- Speaker: Evan Bernstein, NY Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Black Sabbath: A Quest for Israeli Identity
April 2016
- Speaker: Dr. William Recant, U.S. government liaison who facilitated a covert mission to airlift 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991
- Facilitated by Lowell Handler, associate professor of photography
The Holocaust in Romania: The Fate of the Romanian Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Administration
April 2015
- Speaker: Dr. Radu Ioanic, Director of the International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Facilitated by Lucia Cherciu
FDR and the Jews
December 2013
- Speaker: Dr. Richard Breitman, author and professor at American University
- Facilitated by Dana Weidman, associate professor of communications
Film Screening of the documentary “Inheritance”
April 2013
The James Moll film focuses on Monika Hertwig, daughter of Nazi commander Amon Goeth, and how she comes to terms with her father’s legacy.
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
December 2011
- Speaker: Dr. James E. Waller, Professor and Cohen Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Holocaust History: An Agenda for Renewal
April 2011
- Speaker: Dr. Timothy Snyder, Yale University professor and Marshall Scholar
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Kristallnacht 1938: As Experience Then and Understood Now
April 2010
- Speaker: Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, American diplomatic and military historian
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: What remains to be learned.
April 2009
- Speaker: Doris Bergen, University of Toronto, author and expert on the Holocaust
- Facilitated by Dr. Werner Steger, professor, history
Poland Stealing the Holocaust: Who Owns the Memory? Controversies over Auschwitz and Distortions of Memory
April 10, 2008
- Speaker: Anna Sommer, lecturer and doctoral candidate in the department of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Facilitated by Steve Press
Lectures are free and open to the public and are made possible by contributions to the Dutchess Community College Foundation.
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