Please join us on Wednesday, July 15^th, 2020, at 5:00pm (EST) for "The Flight East: Holocaust Refugees in Tashkent, Tehran and Tel-Aviv", a talk by Mikhal Dekel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College and the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of CCNY’s Rifkind Center for Humanities and the Arts.

Participants are asked to RSVP via Google Forms in order to gain access to this event. You can RSVP by following this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejdy407qWIMbFc19HGvg17QVfQXKQXGSfHXZEh6JPnXZQqRw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Oon Wednesday, July 1^st, 2020, at  5:00pm (EST), the IHGMS held an event via ZOOM titled “Rediscovering the Forgotten and Unforgotten Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919”, a talk by Guy Beiner, Professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Visiting Burns Scholar at Boston College 2019-2020.

You can now view the full recording of this event here: https://youtu.be/lTo1gUchYX8

On Wednesday, June 3rd, at 5:00pm (Eastern Standard Time), the IHGMS hosted Professors Jamie Rowen and Ethan Zuckerman for their presentation of: Conspiracy Theories and the COVID-19 Pandemic. This event was hosted virtually via ZOOM as a part of our virtual series titled IHGMS Conversations: Pasts, Presents, Futures. To view the recording of this event visit the event page or follow this link directly to our YouTube: https://youtu.be/ofnzqMB3YMU

During these challenging and isolated times, the "Citizenship and Other States of Belonging" Five College Seminar Group pushes on, using ZOOM and other methods of communication to continue their research work.

Each year the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) at UMass Amherst brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Five Colleges to explore a broad topic. In the academic year 2019-2020 this group of IHGMS Fellows is exploring the topic of “Citizenship and Other States of Belonging.”